The growing need for baseline data against which efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity
loss can be judged highlights the importance of long-term datasets, some of which are as …

Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology's oldest and most universal
laws–every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

Extreme climatic events are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude, but their
ecological impacts are poorly understood. Such events are large, infrequent, stochastic …

Ecologists have long been interested in how communities change over time. Addressing
questions about community dynamics requires ways of representing and comparing the …

Temporal variation in species abundances occurs in all ecological communities. Here, we
explore the role that this temporal turnover plays in maintaining assemblage diversity. We …

It has been known for 50 years that the time period over which data are collected affects the
shape of empirical species abundance distributions. However, despite a recent resurgence …

Diverse faunal groups inhabit deep-sea sediments over much of Earth's surface, but our
understanding of how interannual-scale climate variation alters sediment community …

This paper reports the long-term numerical trends of the thirty common forest bird species
and explores changes in the community composition in the three main types of old-growth …

Recent models of community assembly, structure, and dynamics have incorporated, to
varying degrees, three mechanistic processes: resource limitation and interspecific …