Succession is a fundamental concept in ecology because it indicates how species
populations, communities, and ecosystems change over time on new substrate or after a …

Opencast coal mining has a series of consequences on land resources and places
enormous pressure on the ecological environment. Stripping, excavation, transportation and …

Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

Aridity, which is increasing worldwide because of climate change, affects the structure and
functioning of dryland ecosystems. Whether aridification leads to gradual (versus abrupt) …

In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent
fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing sequestered carbon to the …

A primary roadblock to our understanding of speciation is that it usually occurs over a
timeframe that is too long to study from start to finish. The idea of a speciation continuum …

Evidence is mounting that the immense diversity of microorganisms and animals that live
belowground contributes significantly to shaping aboveground biodiversity and the …

Mangroves shift from carbon sinks to sources when affected by anthropogenic land‐use and
land‐cover change (LULCC). Yet, the magnitude and temporal scale of these impacts are …

The effects of natural succession on plant communities and soil variables have been
established, but changes in microbial communities and their response to plants and soils …

Global forest restoration targets have been set, yet policy makers and land managers lack
guiding principles on how to invest limited resources to achieve them. We conducted a meta …