Characterizing how ecosystems are responding to rapid environmental change has become
a major focus of ecological research. The empirical study of ecological stability, which aims …

Sustainability and sustainable development have become important concepts and goals
across science and society. Sustainability, connected to desirable long-term conditions, is …

It is widely accepted that the main driver of the observed decline in biological diversity is
increasing human pressure on Earth's ecosystems. However, the spatial patterns of change …

Extreme arid regions in the worlds' major deserts are typified by quartz pavement terrain.
Cryptic hypolithic communities colonize the ventral surface of quartz rocks and this habitat is …

Desertification degrades soil health and severely reduces crop productivity. Conventional
tillage practices can amplify these problems in arid and semi-arid regions. For semi-arid …

Understanding how communities assemble is a central goal of ecology. This is particularly
relevant for communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), because the community …

Background Microbial inoculants are an alternative method of increasing crop productivity
that can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, which is one of the more controversial …

Communities are comprised of individual species that respond to changes in their
environment depending in part on their niche requirements. These species comprise the …

A current critical issue in climate change studies is how temperature changes and shifts on
different spatial and temporal scales can affect organisms in terms of trends, variability and …

A large number of diversity metrics are available to study and monitor biodiversity, and their
responses to biodiversity changes are not necessarily coherent with each other. The choice …