Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of
climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in …

We are facing a biodiversity crisis at the same time as we are acquiring an unprecedented
view of the world's biodiversity. Vast new datasets (eg, species distributions, traits …

Human activities are fundamentally altering biodiversity. Projections of declines at the global
scale are contrasted by highly variable trends at local scales, suggesting that biodiversity …

Although research on human-mediated exchanges of species has substantially intensified
during the last centuries, we know surprisingly little about temporal dynamics of alien …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

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 …

Local biodiversity trends over time are likely to be decoupled from global trends, as local
processes may compensate or counteract global change. We analyze 161 long-term …

Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact
with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be …

While decision-making can benefit from considering positive and negative outcomes of
change, over the past half-century, research on non-native species has focused …