Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society,
forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our …

Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

Global concern about human impact on biological diversity has triggered an intense
research agenda on drivers and consequences of biodiversity change in parallel with …

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community
ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological …

The widespread extirpation of megafauna may have destabilized ecosystems and altered
biodiversity globally. Most megafauna extinctions occurred before the modern record …

Anthropogenic drivers of environmental change often have multiple effects, including
changes in biodiversity, species composition, and ecosystem functioning. It remains …

Eutrophication is a major driver of species loss in plant communities worldwide. However,
the underlying mechanisms of this phenomenon are controversial. Previous studies have …

Abrupt ecological changes are, by definition, those that occur over short periods of time
relative to typical rates of change for a given ecosystem. The potential for such changes is …

Human activities are enriching many of Earth's ecosystems with biologically limiting mineral
nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). In grasslands, this enrichment generally …

Although temporal heterogeneity is a well-accepted driver of biodiversity, effects of
interannual variation in land-use intensity (LUI) have not been addressed yet. Additionally …