There exists little doubt that the Earth's biodiversity is declining. The Nature Conservancy, for
example, has documented that one-third of the plant and animal species in the United States …

Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

Food system impacts on biodiversity loss Page 1 Research Paper Food system impacts on
biodiversity loss Three levers for food system transformation in support of nature Tim G. Benton …

The flow of detritus between habitats is an important form of connectivity that affects regional
productivity and the spatial organization of marine ecosystems. Kelps form highly productive …

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

Ecological models show that complexity usually destabilizes food webs,, predicting that food
webs should not amass the large numbers of interacting species that are in fact found in …

Mutual trophic interactions between contiguous habitats have remained poorly understood
despite their potential significance for community maintenance in ecological landscapes. In …

Streams and their adjacent riparian zones are closely linked by reciprocal flows of
invertebrate prey. We review characteristics of these prey subsidies and their strong direct …

Although the study of resource subsidies has emerged as a key topic in both ecosystem and
food web ecology, the dialogue over their role has been limited by separate approaches that …

Current natural resource management seldom takes the ecosystem functions performed by
organisms that move between systems into consideration. Organisms that actively move in …