The unprecedented loss of biological diversity has negative impacts on ecosystems and the
associated benefits which they provide to humans. Bromeliads have high diversity …

Climate change and biodiversity loss are expected to simultaneously affect ecosystems,
however research on how each driver mediates the effect of the other has been limited in …

Understanding how the three currencies of life–energy, material, and information–interact is
a key step towards synthesis in ecology and evolution. However, current theory focuses on …

Species interactions can be important mediators of community and ecosystem responses to
environmental stressors. However, we still lack a mechanistic understanding of the indirect …

Trophic cascade theory predicts that predator effects should extend to influence carbon
cycling in ecosystems. Yet, there has been little empirical evidence in natural ecosystems to …

There is growing recognition that ecosystems may be more impacted by infrequent extreme
climatic events than by changes in mean climatic conditions. This has led to calls for …

Behavioral adjustments to predation risk not only impose costs on prey species themselves
but can also have cascading impacts on whole ecosystems. The greater bilby (Macrotis …

Competition and predation alter individual traits of organisms, and these effects can scale-
up to have consequences on community structure and dynamics. The relative importance of …

Predators control prey populations and influence communities and the functioning of
ecosystems through a combination of consumptive and nonconsumptive effects. These …

Predators can exert nonconsumptive effects (NCEs) on prey, which often take place through
prey behavioural adjustments to minimise predation risk. As NCEs are widespread in nature …