The effective application of biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) research to societal
needs amid the Anthropocene represents the next grand challenge for ecology. Biodiversity …

Modern fishing changes the ocean environment in many ways, including disturbing the sea
floor, altering the food webs, and shifting many important ecosystem functions. Natural …

Habitat complexity is one of the most important factors structuring biotic assemblages, yet we
still lack basic understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Although it is one of the primary …

Coastal ecosystems provide numerous services, such as nutrient cycling, climate change
amelioration, and habitat provision for commercially valuable organisms. Ecosystem …

Predator–prey interactions are important drivers in structuring ecological communities.
However, despite widespread acknowledgement that individual behaviours and predator …

A great diversity of organisms modify the physical structure of estuarine and coastal
environments. These physical ecosystem engineers–particularly, dune and marsh plants …

There has been ongoing flattening of C aribbean coral reefs with the loss of habitat having
severe implications for these systems. Complexity and its structural components are …

Restoration ecology relies heavily on ecosystem development theories that generally
assume development of fully functioning natural systems over time, but often fail to identify …

Anthropogenic elevation of atmospheric CO2 is driving global-scale ocean acidification,
which consequently influences calcification rates of many marine invertebrates and …

Uncovering relationships between landscape diversity and species interactions is crucial for
predicting how ongoing land‐use change and homogenization will impact the stability and …