Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently,
the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined …

Although diversity–stability relationships have been extensively studied in local ecosystems,
the global biodiversity crisis calls for an improved understanding of these relationships in a …

Understanding global patterns of biodiversity change is crucial for conservation research,
policies and practices. However, for most ecosystems, the lack of systematically collected …

Research into insect decline over the years indicates increased funding is required for long
term monitoring and more research to support sustainable agriculture. Planning authorities …

Biodiversity loss decreases ecosystem functioning at the local scales at which species
interact, but it remains unclear how biodiversity loss affects ecosystem functioning at the …

The idea that there is an identifiable set of boundaries, beyond which anthropogenic change
will put the Earth system outside a safe operating space for humanity, is attracting interest in …

Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species
richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of global species …

While biodiversity loss continues globally, assessments of regional and local change over
time have been equivocal. Here, we assess changes in plant species richness and beta …

Forest ecosystems are critical to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through carbon
sequestration. However, climate change has affected forest ecosystem functioning in both …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …