Global environmental changes are expected to alter the functional characteristics of
understorey herb-layer communities, potentially affecting forest ecosystem functioning …

The abyssal seafloor community in the NE Pacific (Station M,∼ 4000 m depth) was studied
between 2006 and 2012 using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) as part of a continuing 24 …

Previous assessments of wildlife road mortality have not used directly comparable methods
and, at present, there is no standardized protocol for the collection of such data …

Small cryptic invertebrates (the cryptofauna) are extremely abundant, ecologically important,
and species rich on coral reefs. Ongoing ocean acidification is likely to have both direct …

Although the ecological network approach has substantially contributed to the study of plant-
pollinator interactions, current understanding of their functional structure is biased towards …

Ant colonies provide well-protected and resource-rich environments for a plethora of
symbionts. Historically, most studies of ants and their symbionts have had a narrow …

Aim To investigate the contributions of ecosystem productivity, temperature‐dependent
metabolism and climatic tolerances to the latitudinal gradient in species richness and …

A fundamental challenge of software testing is the statistically well-grounded extrapolation
from program behaviors observed during testing. For instance, a security researcher who …

Given the inherent dynamics of a viral quasispecies, we are often interested in the
comparison of diversity indices of sequential samples of a patient, or in the comparison of …

A major reorganization of Patagonian ecosystems occurred when permanent ice sheets
appeared in Antarctica and the Andean Range uplifted in southern South America. Rich …