Food webs influence ecosystem diversity and functioning. Contemporary defaunation has
reduced food web complexity, but simplification caused by past defaunation is difficult to …

Abstract The Baynunah Formation has produced a diverse assemblage of plant,
invertebrate, and vertebrate fossils that provides the only window onto the terrestrial late …

Biotic homogenization—increasing similarity of species composition among ecological
communities—has been linked to anthropogenic processes operating over the last century …

Despite their importance in many ecological processes, collecting data and information on
ecological interactions is an exceedingly challenging task. For this reason, large parts of the …

Abstract The Muaco and Taima-Taima sites, in Falcón State of northwestern Venezuela, are
among the earliest sites of human occupation in South America containing artifacts …

Extinctions stemming from environmental change often trigger trophic cascades and
coextinctions. Bottom–up cascades occur when changes in the primary producers in a …

Establishing body mass from skeletal remains of an animal is of importance to researchers
in the fields of ecology, palaeontology and archaeozoology. Establishing such standards …

It is perhaps unsurprising that apex predators, such as whales, sharks, leopards, and tigers,
also tend to be the rarest species. This is largely because of the imperfect transfer of energy …

Energy flow through consumer-resource interactions is largely determined by body size.
Allometric relationships govern the dynamics of populations by impacting rates of …

The erosion of functional diversity may foster the collapse of ecological systems. Functional
diversity is ultimately determined by the distribution of species traits. As species traits are a …