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

Aim Population density is a key parameter in ecology and conservation, and estimates of
population density are required for a wide variety of applications in fundamental and applied …

Free-ranging cats (Felis catus) are globally distributed invasive carnivores that markedly
impact biodiversity. Here, to evaluate the potential threat of cats, we develop a …

Introduced large herbivores have partly filled ecological gaps formed in the late Pleistocene,
when many of the Earth's megafauna were driven extinct. However, extant predators are …

Aim Reconstructing megafauna diversity in the past before anthropogenic impacts is crucial
for developing targeted restoration strategies. We estimated the diversity and functional …

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the world's most widespread member of the order Carnivora,
occurring across a large range of latitudes and inhabiting multiple habitat types. There is no …

Despite exponential growth in ecological data availability, broader interoperability amongst
datasets is needed to unlock the potential of open access. Our understanding of the …

Stable isotope palaeoecology of fossil mammals is a key research tool for understanding the
environmental context of hominin evolution in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. Well studied …

Aim The assembly of species into communities and ecoregions is the result of interacting
factors that affect plant and animal distribution and abundance at biogeographic scales …

Mammalian carnivores are particularly relevant for ecosystem functioning, but for many
Neotropical species, dietary information is scarce or unevenly sampled across their …