The pattern of a few abundant species and many rarer species is a defining characteristic of
communities worldwide. These abundant species are often referred to as dominant species …

Contents Summary 52 I. Introduction 52 II. The Community Response to Extreme Drought
(CRED) framework 55 III. Post‐drought rewetting rates: system and community recovery 61 …

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem stability is poorly understood in
microbial communities. Biofilm communities in small bioreactors called microbial electrolysis …

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

Biodiversity, both aboveground and belowground, is negatively affected by global changes
such as drought or warming. This loss of biodiversity impacts Earth's ecosystems, as there is …

Univariate and multivariate methods are commonly used to explore the spatial and temporal
dynamics of ecological communities, but each has limitations, including oversimplification or …

Temporal stability of ecosystem functioning increases the predictability and reliability of
ecosystem services, and understanding the drivers of stability across spatial scales is …

The research of a generation of ecologists was catalysed by the recognition that the number
and identity of species in communities influences the functioning of ecosystems. The …

Global change is impacting plant community composition, but the mechanisms underlying
these changes are unclear. Using a dataset of 58 global change experiments, we tested the …

A major challenge in ecology, conservation and global‐change biology is to understand why
biodiversity responds differently to similar environmental changes. Contingent biodiversity …