Understanding the stability of ecological communities is a matter of increasing importance in
the context of global environmental change. Yet it has proved to be a challenging task …

Interactions and emergent processes are essential for research on complex systems
involving many components. Most studies focus solely on pairwise interactions and ignore …

Understanding the factors that determine the occurrence and strength of ecological
interactions under specific abiotic and biotic conditions is fundamental since many aspects …

For many decades, ecologists have sought to understand the extent to which species losses
lead to secondary extinctions—that is, the additional loss of species that occurs when …

Evolutionary rescue may allow species to survive environmental change, but how this
mechanism operates in food webs is poorly understood. Here, the evolutionary rescue was …

Interactions are ubiquitous and have been extensively studied in many ecological,
evolutionary, and physiological systems. A variety of measures—ANOVA, covariance …

River regulation can modify natural flow regimes with deleterious effects on aquatic
communities. While the effects of flow manipulation on the physical environment and …

Some three‐species motifs (unique patterns of interactions between three species) are both
more stable when modelled in isolation and over‐represented in empirical food webs. This …

The conservation status of invertebrates globally is uncertain1–5. In particular, information
from primary tropical forests is limited3–5, and yet invertebrates are responsible for crucial …

Ecosystems and their contributions to people–known as ecosystem services–are changing
globally, particularly as humans continue to modify the planet. Ecosystem service …