Urbanization is restructuring ecosystems at an unprecedented pace, with complex and
profound consequences for life on Earth. One of the hypothesized trajectories of urban …

Urban ecology is a rapidly growing research field that has to keep pace with the pressing
need to tackle the sustainability crisis. As an inherently multi‐disciplinary field with close ties …

Complexity has received substantial attention from scientists and philosophers alike. There
are numerous, often conflicting, accounts of how complexity should be defined and how it …

As alien invasive species are a key driver of biodiversity loss, understanding patterns of
rapidly changing global species compositions depends upon knowledge of invasive species …

Plants harbour a great chemodiversity, that is diversity of specialised metabolites (SMs), at
different scales. For instance, individuals can produce a large number of SMs, and …

While environmental science, and ecology in particular, is working to provide better
understanding to base sustainable decisions on, the way scientific understanding is …

Species spreading beyond their native ranges are important study objects in ecology and
environmental sciences and research on biological invasions is thriving. Along with an …

Biological invasions are on the rise, and their global impacts on ecosystems, economies and
human health are a major challenge. Invasion science is critical to mitigate invader impacts …

In the age of advanced information systems powering fast-paced knowledge economies that
face global societal challenges, it is no longer adequate to express scholarly information-an …

Hypotheses play a central role in the scientific process, yet the way they are introduced often
leaves much room for interpretation, which makes it difficult to use them later on: to study …