Food webs represent trophic interactions within ecosystems. Matching traits of consumers
and resources helps infer trophic interactions and food-web properties. Environmental (e) …

Networks describe nodes connected by links, with numbers of links per node, the degree,
forming a range of distributions including random and scale‐free. How network topologies …

Data on contemporary and future geographical distributions of marine species are crucial for
guiding conservation and management policies in face of climate change. However …

Aim Wallacea is a global biodiversity hotspot and Sulawesi is the largest island in this
region, notable for a high proportion of endemic species. The Wakatobi archipelago, off the …

Aim If communities have a ceiling determining the number of species that can coexist, then
the ability of alien species to establish at any given location should be related to the quantity …

Background The current modification of species distribution ranges, as a response to a
warmer climate, constitutes an interesting line of work and a recent challenge for …

Studying past community dynamics can provide valuable insights for anticipating future
changes in the world's biota. However, the existing fossil record is too sparse to enable …

Climate has played a significant role in shaping the distribution of mammal species across
the world. Mammal community composition can therefore be used for inferring modern and …

This chapter discusses some epistemological and theoretical issues to provide a basis for
how scientific activity happens within the macroecological perspective. Theories are usually …

Macroecology is now a successful approach to investigate ecological patterns, providing a
way to look at the natural systems “from a distance.” This scientific perspective focuses on …