Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

There is a growing recognition that ecological systems can spend extended periods of time
far away from an asymptotic state, and that ecological understanding will therefore require a …

Tree regeneration is a key process for long‐term forest dynamics, determining changes in
species composition and shaping successional trajectories. While tree regeneration is a …

Metabolism controls the pace of life, driving major ecological patterns. We propose that the
scaling of metabolism with temperature influences neutral processes of community …

Cities and towns are complex ecosystems with features that can vary dramatically in space
and time. Our knowledge of the spatial structure of urban land and ecological systems is …

Spatial rarity is often used to predict extinction risk, but rarity can also occur temporally.
Perhaps more relevant in the context of global change is whether a species is core to a …

Our knowledge of ecological stability is built on assumptions of scale. These assumptions
limit our ability to reach a generalizable and mechanistic understanding of stability under …

Freshwater biodiversity is rapidly declining due to accelerated human-induced disturbances.
Increased human-induced environmental disturbances are believed not to only decrease …

Ecological communities are assembled in a spatial–temporal continuum. However, we still
have a poor understanding of the relative importance of different mechanisms structuring …

Reservoir operation causes spatiotemporal variations in outflow, which influence the
dynamics of downstream aquatic communities. However, empirical evidence of community …