Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation

IM Côté, ES Darling, CJ Brown - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interactions between multiple ecosystem stressors are expected to jeopardize biological
processes, functions and biodiversity. The scientific community has declared stressor …

The context dependence of non‐consumptive predator effects

AJ Wirsing, MR Heithaus, JS Brown, BP Kotler… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐consumptive predator effects (NCEs) are now widely recognised for their capacity to
shape ecosystem structure and function. Yet, forecasting the propagation of these predator …

The role of behavioral ecotoxicology in environmental protection

AT Ford, M Ågerstrand, BW Brooks, J Allen… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
For decades, we have known that chemicals affect human and wildlife behavior. Moreover,
due to recent technological and computational advances, scientists are now increasingly …

Range contractions of the world's large carnivores

C Wolf, WJ Ripple - Royal Society open science, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range
contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction. However …

Enemies with benefits: integrating positive and negative interactions among terrestrial carnivores

LR Prugh, KJ Sivy - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions among terrestrial carnivores involve a complex interplay of competition,
predation and facilitation via carrion provisioning, and these negative and positive pathways …

What do you mean,'resilient'?

D Hodgson, JL McDonald, DJ Hosken - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015 - cell.com
In a world beset by environmental disasters and anthropogenic disturbances, resilience
might be the key to the persistence of natural systems. Yet, the 'measurement'of resilience is …

Higher-order interactions capture unexplained complexity in diverse communities

MM Mayfield, DB Stouffer - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Natural communities are well known to be maintained by many complex processes. Despite
this, the practical aspects of studying them often require some simplification, such as the …

Give predators a complement: Conserving natural enemy biodiversity to improve biocontrol

WE Snyder - Biological control, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural enemy biodiversity reflects both the number of species attacking pests (species
richness) and their relative abundances (species evenness). Recent experimental work …

Evolution and behavioural responses to human‐induced rapid environmental change

A Sih, MCO Ferrari, DJ Harris - Evolutionary applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Almost all organisms live in environments that have been altered, to some degree, by
human activities. Because behaviour mediates interactions between an individual and its …

Bottom‐up vs. top‐down effects on terrestrial insect herbivores: a meta‐analysis

MC Vidal, SM Murphy - Ecology letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Primary consumers are under strong selection from resource ('bottom‐up') and consumer
('top‐down') controls, but the relative importance of these selective forces is unknown. We …