Soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized as providing benefits to human health because it
can suppress disease-causing soil organisms and provide clean air, water and food. Poor …

We develop a model that outlines the movements and fates of seeds after they leave the
parent plant, and then we examine the relative influences of abiotic and biotic factors on …

Numbers of species above ground and below ground may be correlated when taxa in both
realms respond similarly to the same or correlated environmental driving variables …

Food webs in the real world are much more complex than food-web literature would have us
believe. This is illustrated by the web of the sand community in the Coachella Valley desert …

Herbivores are taxonomically and ecologically diverse, ranging in size from microscopic
zooplankton to the largest of land vertebrates. Aquatic grazers include zooplankton (28 …

Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition,
ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its …

Despite recent, compelling challenge, the evolution of Homo erectusis still commonly
attributed to big game hunting and/or scavenging and family provisioning by men. Here we …

Beaver (Castor canadensis) affect biogeochemical cycles and the accumulation and
distribution of chemical elements over time and space by altering the hydrologic regime …

▪ Abstract Investigations of plant-herbivore interactions continue to be popular; however, a
bias neglecting root feeders may limit our ability to understand how herbivores shape plant …

The underground environment imposes unique demands on life that have led subterranean
species to evolve specialized traits, many of which evolved convergently. We studied …