Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

We review empirical studies on how bioinvasions alter food webs and how a food-web
perspective may change their prediction and management. Predation is found to underlie …

Ecosystem responses to changes in species diversity are often studied individually.
However, changes in species diversity can simultaneously influence multiple …

Understanding how changes in biodiversity will impact the stability and functioning of
ecosystems is a central challenge in ecology. Food web approaches have been advocated …

Describing how ecological interactions change over space and time and how they are
shaped by environmental conditions is crucial to understand and predict ecosystem …

Aim Despite recent calls for integrating interaction networks into the study of large‐scale
biodiversity patterns, we still lack a basic understanding of the functional characteristics of …

Many different concepts have been used to describe species' roles in food webs (ie, the
ways in which species participate in their communities as consumers and resources). As …

Identifying areas that contain species assemblages not found elsewhere in a region is
central to conservation planning. 1, 2 Species assemblages contain networks of species …

Increasing evidence suggests that agricultural intensification is a threat to many groups of
soil biota, but how the impacts of land-use intensity on soil organisms translate into changes …

What is the prevalent topology among interaction networks? How do consumers balance
between generalism and performance when exploiting different resources? These two long …