In a world of increasing interconnections in global trade as well as rapid change in climate
and land cover, the accelerating introduction and spread of invasive species is a critical …

The maintenance of biodiversity in dynamic landscapes can be explained through the
unifying concept of the metacommunity, an ecological system with a changing structure that …

Communities of organisms, from mammals to microorganisms, have discontinuous
distributions of body size. This pattern of size structuring is a conservative trait of community …

Functionally diverse communities can adjust their species composition to altered
environmental conditions, which may influence food web dynamics. Trait-based aggregate …

Background Skewed body size distributions and the high relative richness of small-bodied
taxa are a fundamental property of a wide range of animal clades. The evolutionary …

Dominant physical and biological processes in ecosystems occur at specific scales of space
and time. The life‐spans and the life‐spaces (areas used by species over their lifetime) …

Our objective was to estimate and analyze the body‐size distribution parameters of
terrestrial mammal assemblages at different spatial scales, and to determine whether these …

A contemporary challenge in ecology is assessing the ecosystem effects of multispecies
introductions. Quantifying shifts in body sizes, a common trait with which many per capita …

Success in fish breeding depends on reproduction intensity, periodicity and the place where
it occurs. Information about fish species reproduction is important to assist managers, and to …

Deep-sea systems are understudied compared to any other ecological system on Earth, but
they are important for ecosystem functioning and services. The deep sea is important in the …