Foundation species facilitate communities, modulate energy flow, and define ecosystems,
but their ecological roles after death are frequently overlooked. Here, we reveal the …

Soil contamination by microplastics (MPs) has emerged as a significant global concern.
Although traditionally associated with crop production, contemporary understanding of soil …

Megaherbivores perform vital ecosystem engineering roles, and have their last remaining
stronghold in Africa. Of Africa's remaining megaherbivores, the common hippopotamus …

Ecosystem engineers are organisms that modify their physical habitats in a way that alters
resource availability and the structure of the communities they live in. The evolution of …

The influence of ecosystem engineers on habitats and communities is commonly
acknowledged in a site-bounded context, ie in places directly affected by the presence of the …

Historically, considerations of the carbon budget of bivalve shellfish have disproportionately
focused on the cycling of carbon in shell alone, overlooking respiratory release and the …

That the activities of organisms influence their surrounding ecological communities, and the
environment, has long been appreciated by palaeontologists, as has the role of these …

Ecosystem engineers can generate hotspots of ecological structure and function by
facilitating the aggregation of both resources and consumers. However, nearly all examples …

Knowing mechanisms that facilitate the emergence of post-glacial ecosystems is urgently
required given rapid recent glacial retreat in high latitude and high elevation regions. We …

Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …