Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

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

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

A quantitative approach to species coexistence based on the invasibility criterion has led to
an appreciation of coexistence mechanisms in terms of stabilizing and equalizing …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

Communities are comprised of individual species that respond to changes in their
environment depending in part on their niche requirements. These species comprise the …

Identifying factors that may be responsible for regulating the size of animal populations is a
cornerstone in understanding population ecology. The main factors that are thought to …

Understanding the linkages among species diversity, biomass production and stability
underlies effective predictions for conservation, agriculture and fisheries. Although these …

The enormity and complexity of problems like environmental degradation and biodiversity
loss have led to the development of indicator species and other surrogate approaches to …

Here we review and extend the equal fitness paradigm (EFP) as an important step in
developing and testing a synthetic theory of ecology and evolution based on energy and …