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View article: Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties
Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties Open
Aim Understanding the direct (e.g., on biological rates) and indirect (e.g., through changes in species richness) effects of temperature on food web properties, in the context of latitudinal gradients and climate warming. We focus on speci…
View article: Net biodiversity effects on ecosystem resistance and resilience
Net biodiversity effects on ecosystem resistance and resilience Open
View article: Linking biotic interactions to species stability
Linking biotic interactions to species stability Open
Ecological communities are often composed of many species, each interacting in complex ways. This complexity makes predictions of species responses to disturbances challenging. Here, we analyze dynamical community models and reveal an unex…
View article: Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature
Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature Open
Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and protist assemblages, we show that the …
View article: Cascading social-ecological benefits of biodiversity for agriculture
Cascading social-ecological benefits of biodiversity for agriculture Open
View article: Ubiquity of inverted ’gelatinous’ ecosystem pyramids in the global ocean
Ubiquity of inverted ’gelatinous’ ecosystem pyramids in the global ocean Open
Summary paragraph Plankton are essential in marine ecosystems. However, our knowledge of overall community structure is sparse due to inconsistent sampling across their very large organismal size range. Here we use diverse imaging methods …
View article: The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence
The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence Open
In Lotka-Volterra community models, given a set of biotic interactions, recent approaches have analysed the probability of finding a set of species intrinsic growth rates (representing intraspecific demographic features) that will allow co…
View article: Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns Open
Ecology is a science of scale, which guides our description of both ecological processes and patterns, but we lack a systematic understanding of how process scale and pattern scale are connected. Recent calls for synthesis between populati…
View article: How collectively integrated are ecological communities?
How collectively integrated are ecological communities? Open
Beyond abiotic conditions, do population dynamics mostly depend on a species' direct predators, preys and conspecifics? Or can indirect feedback that ripples across the whole community be equally important? Determining where ecological com…
View article: Species richness promotes plant productivity by suppressing plant antagonists
Species richness promotes plant productivity by suppressing plant antagonists Open
The diversity-productivity relationship predicts a positive effect of plant species richness on primary productivity. One key mechanism predicted to underlie this relationship is the effect of plant diversity on the suppression of plant an…
View article: Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations
Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations Open
View article: Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components
Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components Open
Plant density and size — two factors that represent plant survival and growth — are key determinants of yield but have rarely been analysed explicitly in the context of biodiversity–productivity relationships. Here, we derive equations to …
View article: Publisher Correction: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
Publisher Correction: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference Open
The original version of this Article contained errors in the Methods section 'Target causal effect', in which terms were omitted from the mathematical definitions of the causal effect and average causal effect.These sentences incorrectly r…
View article: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference Open
View article: Opportunities to advance the synthesis of ecology and evolution
Opportunities to advance the synthesis of ecology and evolution Open
Despite decades of research on the interactions between ecology and evolution, opportunities still remain to further integrate the two disciplines, especially when considering multispecies systems. Here, we discuss two such opportunities. …
View article: The robustness of thermal performance curves limits adaptation in growth rate of wild bacterial strains
The robustness of thermal performance curves limits adaptation in growth rate of wild bacterial strains Open
Thermal adaptation of organisms is a property emerging from the complex interplay of biophysical constraints and selective forces. The shape of thermal performance curves has been well investigated but we lack knowledge of how they may evo…
View article: <strong> Data and code from: </strong>Will a large complex system be productive?
<strong> Data and code from: </strong>Will a large complex system be productive? Open
The dataset of 149 empirical food webs and the MATLAB code for simulated food webs analyzed in the paper "Will a large complex system be productive?" (published in Ecology Letters) is provided. Detailed methods see the paper.
View article: Dataset 1: "Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components"
Dataset 1: "Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components" Open
DescriptionA dataset of an annual-palnt diversity experiment used in Tatsumi and Loreau (2023). Five species (Arthraxon hispidus, Bidens pilosa, Digitaria ciliaris, Kummerowia stipulacea, and Persicaria longi…
View article: How collectively integrated are ecological communities?
How collectively integrated are ecological communities? Open
Beyond abiotic conditions, do population dynamics mostly depend on the species’ direct predators, preys and conspecifics? Or can indirect feedbacks that ripple across the whole community be equally important? Here we show that the spectral…
View article: Opportunities to advance the synthesis of ecology and evolution
Opportunities to advance the synthesis of ecology and evolution Open
Despite growing interactions between ecology and evolution, there still remain opportunities to further integrate the two disciplines, especially when considering multispecies systems. Here, we discuss two such opportunities. First, we sug…
View article: Spatial heterogeneity of interaction strength has contrasting effects on synchrony and stability in trophic metacommunities
Spatial heterogeneity of interaction strength has contrasting effects on synchrony and stability in trophic metacommunities Open
This paper has been peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Ecology (https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100512).
View article: Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients Open
View article: Breaking down the wall between ecology and evolution
Breaking down the wall between ecology and evolution Open
Despite their close links, ecology and evolution have remained separate disciplines to this day. Breaking down the wall between the two disciplines is essential for at least two reasons. First, this wall is an obstacle to the study of most…
View article: Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people Open
Despite substantial progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, major taxonomic and geographic knowledge gaps remain. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement to fill knowledge gaps, but are rarely able to engage with suffici…
View article: Synchrony and Stability in Trophic Metacommunities: When Top Predators Navigate in a Heterogeneous World
Synchrony and Stability in Trophic Metacommunities: When Top Predators Navigate in a Heterogeneous World Open
Ecosystem stability strongly depends on spatial aspects since localized perturbations spread across an entire region through species dispersal. Assessing the synchrony of the response of connected populations is fundamental to understand s…
View article: Inferring Size-Based Functional Responses From the Physical Properties of the Medium
Inferring Size-Based Functional Responses From the Physical Properties of the Medium Open
First derivations of the functional response were mechanistic, but subsequent uses of these functions tended to be phenomenological. Further understanding of the mechanisms underpinning predator-prey relationships might lead to novel insig…
View article: Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients Open
All data associated with the publications: Liang et al. (2022) Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients".
View article: Inferring size-based functional responses from the physical properties of the medium
Inferring size-based functional responses from the physical properties of the medium Open
Databases used to test the model described in the article "Inferring size-based functional responses from the physical properties of the medium", Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Please read the "Readme.pdf" file for detailed informatio…
View article: Inferring size-based functional responses from the physical properties of the medium
Inferring size-based functional responses from the physical properties of the medium Open
Databases used to test the model described in the article "Inferring size-based functional responses from the physical properties of the medium", Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Please read the "Readme.pdf" file for detailed informatio…
View article: The hidden role of multi‐trophic interactions in driving diversity–productivity relationships
The hidden role of multi‐trophic interactions in driving diversity–productivity relationships Open
Resource‐use complementarity of producer species is often invoked to explain the generally positive diversity–productivity relationships. Additionally, multi‐trophic interactions that link processes across trophic levels have received incr…