Summary 1 A fundamental goal of ecological network research is to understand how the
complexity observed in nature can persist and how this affects ecosystem functioning. This is …

Ecological communities are constantly responding to environmental change. Theory and
evidence suggest that the loss or decline of stress-intolerant species can be compensated …

The concept of ecosystems services has become an important model for linking the
functioning of ecosystems to human welfare. Understanding this link is critical for a wide …

Community ecology: the study of the patterns and processes involving two or more species-
has developed rapidly in the last two decades, driven by new and more sophisticated …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Dramatic advances have been made recently in the study of biodiversity–ecosystem
functioning (B‐EF) relations and food web ecology. These fields are now starting to …

Ecology Letters (2009) 12: 1317–1325 Abstract This experimental study tests new theory for
multiple predator effects on communities by using warming to alter predator habitat use and …

Climate change is expected to alter trophic interactions within food chains, but predicting the
fate of particular species is difficult because the predictions hinge on knowing exactly how …

Current predictions regarding the ecological consequences of climate change on animal
populations are generally autecological and species‐specific, and/or non‐mechanistic …

The combustion of fossil fuels and the resultant impacts on climate may now represent one
of the largest environmental threats. In the Mediterranean Sea, changes in bio-chemical and …