Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Birds are conspicuous in many habitats, occur worldwide, are ecologically diverse, and are
better known than other vertebrate groups. Birds devour pests, pollinate flowers, disperse …

Intact forests provide diverse and irreplaceable ecosystem services that are critical to human
well-being, such as carbon storage to mitigate climate change. However, the ecosystem …

Understanding distribution patterns and multitrophic interactions is critical for managing bat‐
and bird‐mediated ecosystem services such as the suppression of pest and non‐pest …

Biological control of pests by natural enemies is a major ecosystem service delivered to
agriculture worldwide. Quantifying and predicting its effectiveness at large spatial scales is …

In this paper, we present an estimate of the predation impact of the global population of
insectivorous birds based on 103 (for the most part) published studies of prey consumption …

Identifying the composition of avian diets is a critical step in characterizing the roles of birds
within ecosystems. However, because birds are a diverse taxonomic group with equally …

Birds provide important ecosystem services in many ecosystems, including important pest
control effects on productive systems. The typically low bird diversity observed in intensive …

Background Pesticide use has been associated with risks for human health and an overall
decline in biodiversity. Although herbicides are the most commonly used pesticides …

Bats suppress insect populations in agricultural ecosystems, yet the question of whether
bats initiate trophic cascades in forests is mainly unexplored. We used a field experiment to …