Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Highlights•In some instances, insects can be large direct inputs of biomass to the detrital
pool.•Insects and other small invertebrates transform biomass and alter decomposition …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) has been used in mosquito control programs to
reduce nuisance in Europe for decades and is generally considered an environmentally …

Cross‐ecosystem movements of material and energy, particularly reciprocal resource fluxes
across the freshwater–land interface, have received major attention. Freshwater ecosystems …

Riparian habitats provide detrital subsidies of varying quantities and qualities to recipient
ecosystems. We used long‐term data from three reference streams (covering 24 stream …

Our understanding of lake ecosystems has undergone a paradigm shift over the past few
decades. While the classic tradition in limnology has been the study of planktonic, open …

By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how groupings in nature
(typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food …

Cross-ecosystem fluxes can crucially influence the productivity of adjacent habitats.
Emerging aquatic insects represent one important pathway through which freshwater …

Freshwaters receive more than water from their catchments, including a large amount of
materials and biologically available energy, referred to as cross‐ecosystem resource …