The dead remains of habitat-forming organisms can have powerful influences on the resilience of the ecosystems they inhabit.

Being a land-oriented species whose ancestors crawled out of the sea hundreds of millions of years ago, most of our ecological needs are met with other terrestrial species. Our foods,...

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology and discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale che...

As deforestation in the Amazon falls, fresh evidence shows that the rainforest can withstand global warming, but only if there is a worldwide effort to stop cutting it down.

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Soil supports a large number of organisms that regulate multiple ecosystem functions globally. Nevertheless, research addressing soil fauna and ecosys…

Satellite, genomic, and hydrographic analyses reveal climate-driven shifts in phytoplankton nutrient stress across the ocean.

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The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...

Scenario modelling reveals how sovereign credit ratings and the cost of borrowing across 23 nations would change under partial collapses in timber production, wild pollination services and marine fish...

Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active ...

Minghao Chen, Yahong Zheng, Minling Cai, Songbo Tang, Lingling Zhang, Xianzhen Luo, Xiaoqian Zhang, Enqing Hou, Yuanwen Kuang, Dazhi Wen This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology res…

Modelling of wind and solar energy expansion in China through to 2060 identifies different conflicts between conservation priorities and renewables sitings under national (centralized) versus provinci...

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Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest.

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Rapid improvements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are leading to new options to manage species of conservation concern, for example by developing “sm…

Research on Foraminifera and Radiolaria has predominantly focused on their fossil remains. This synthesis identifies the “Big Five” disciplines of a unified Retaria research: diversity and evolution,...

Geographic distribution of seed dispersal studies by disperser guild.

Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...

Realistic biodiversity loss in a species-rich wet meadow had limited effects on community competitive ability. Phytometers revealed strong competition compared to competition-free gaps, but similar p...

Ciliary flows buffer coral O2 supply under heat stress until a tipping point, above which hypoxia and tissue failure are induced.

Abstract. In spatial regression models, collinearity between covariates and spatial effects can lead to significant bias in effect estimates. This problem,