Our planet is changing at paces never observed before. Species extinction is happening at
faster rates than ever, greatly exceeding the five mass extinctions in the fossil record …

Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

We review empirical studies on how bioinvasions alter food webs and how a food-web
perspective may change their prediction and management. Predation is found to underlie …

A predictive understanding of the ecological impacts of nonnative species has been slow to
develop, owing largely to an apparent dearth of clearly defined hypotheses and the lack of a …

抄録< jats: p> Why do larger areas have more species? What makes diversity so high near
the equator? Has the number of species grown during the past 600 million years? Does …

The metacommunity concept is an important way to think about linkages between different
spatial scales in ecology. Here we review current understanding about this concept. We first …

There exists little doubt that the Earth's biodiversity is declining. The Nature Conservancy, for
example, has documented that one-third of the plant and animal species in the United States …

In his recent review of the developing theory of insect-plant interactions, Gilbert (52)
identified four major thrusts in research: insect-plant coevolu tion, host plants as islands …

It seems particularly opportune to discuss food webs and evolving views on their structure
here for both their genesis and first modern treatment (Elton 1927) and much of their later …

Food‐web structure mediates dramatic effects of biodiversity loss including secondary
andcascading'extinctions. We studied these effects by simulating primary species loss in 16 …