Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

Vertebrates perform key roles in ecosystem processes via trophic interactions with plants
and insects, but the response of these interactions to environmental change is difficult to …

Urbanization, one of the most important anthropogenic impacts on Earth, is rapidly
expanding worldwide. This expansion of urban land‐covered areas is known to significantly …

In an era of global change, the process of biotic homogenisation by which regional biotas
become more similar through time has attracted considerable attention from ecologists …

With the aim of supporting ecological analyses in butterflies, the third most species-rich
superfamily of Lepidoptera, this paper presents the first time-calibrated phylogeny of all 496 …

How communities assemble is a central and fundamental question in ecology. However, it
has been mired by conflicting conclusions about whether community assembly is driven by …

Assessing the impact of global changes and protection effectiveness is a key step in
monitoring marine fishes. Most traditional census methods are demanding or destructive …

Following the multiplicity of studies dealing with the effects of agricultural intensification on
bird diversity, one of the lessons drawn is that these effects depend on both the taxonomic …

Although it is generally recognized that global biodiversity is declining, few studies have
examined long‐term changes in multiple biodiversity dimensions simultaneously. In this …

Aims Climate change is known to drive both the reshuffling of whole assemblages and
range shifts of individual species. Less is known about how local colonizations and …