Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly using big-data approaches to tackle
questions at large spatial, taxonomic, and temporal scales. However, despite recent efforts …

The open‐data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote
considerable progress in ecology and evolution. Open‐data global data bases now exist on …

Biodiversity has widely been documented to enhance local community stability but whether
such stabilizing effects of biodiversity extend to broader scales remains elusive. Here, we …

The objective of science is to understand the natural world; we argue that prediction is the
only way to demonstrate scientific understanding, implying that prediction should be a …

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

Population size is a major determinant of extinction risk. However, controversy remains as to
how large populations need to be to ensure persistence. It is generally believed that …

Scaling relationships (where body size features as the independent variable) and power-law
distributions are commonly reported in ecological systems. In this review we analyze scaling …

The terms sustainability, resilience and others group under the heading of 'stability'. Their
ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterize changes in complex social and environmental …

Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

Population sample data are complex; inference and prediction require proper
accommodation of not only the nonlinear interactions that determine the expected future …