Despite the major importance of soil biota in nutrient and energy fluxes, interactions in soil
food webs are poorly understood. Here we provide an overview of recent advances in …

Do large organisms occupy higher trophic levels? Predators are often larger than their prey
in food chains, but empirical evidence for positive body mass–trophic level scaling for entire …

Intensive agriculture has profoundly altered biodiversity and trophic relationships in
agricultural landscapes, leading to the deterioration of many ecosystem services such as …

Conversion of tropical rainforests into plantations fundamentally alters ecological niches of
animal species. Generalist predators such as centipedes (Chilopoda) may be able to persist …

Binary presence–absence matrices (rows= species, columns= sites) are often used to
quantify patterns of species co‐occurrence, and to infer possible biotic interactions from …

Animals that have similar morphological traits are expected to share similar ecological
niches. This statement applies to individual animals within a species and thus species often …

Closely related species are often assumed to be functionally similar. Phylogenetic
information is thus widely used to infer functional diversity and assembly of communities. In …

Understanding how species sort themselves into communities is essential to explain the
mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. Important insights into potential mechanisms of …

A central challenge in ecology and biogeography is to determine the extent to which
physiological constraints govern the geographic ranges of species along environmental …

Little information is available regarding sublethal effects of neonicotinoids on insect
predators, many of which perform important roles in ecosystem functioning and biocontrol. In …