Biotic homogenization, the gradual replacement of native biotas by locally expanding non-
natives, is a global process that diminishes floral and faunal distinctions among regions …

Ecosystem services are natural processes that benefit humans. Birds contribute the four
types of services recognized by the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—provisioning …

Streams and their adjacent riparian zones are closely linked by reciprocal flows of
invertebrate prey. We review characteristics of these prey subsidies and their strong direct …

Scientists rely on food webs—complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy
between species and through ecosystems—to understand the infrastructure of ecological …

Studies of the effects of cross‐habitat resource subsidies have been a feature of food web
ecology over the past decade. To date, most studies have focused on demonstrating the …

Whole‐lake additions of dissolved inorganic 13C were used to measure allochthony (the
terrestrial contribution of organic carbon to aquatic consumers) in two unproductive lakes …

Most research on the effects of environmental change in freshwaters has focused on
incremental changes in average conditions, rather than fluctuations or extreme events such …

Climate change models predict that much of western North America is becoming
significantly warmer and drier, resulting in overall reductions in availability of water for …

Ecologists long have been aware that there is flux of energy and nutrients from riverine
systems to the surrounding terrestrial landscape and vice versa. Riparian ecotones are …

Abstract The Japanese Archipelago (land area: 377 880 km2) extends over a distance of c.
2000 km, with a maximum width of 300 km. Geologically, it is a young and tectonically very …