Understanding the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has major
implications. Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships are generally investigated at …

Understanding how plant diversity influences higher trophic levels is important for predicting
the consequences of global biodiversity loss. While early studies have focused on the effects …

Human activity is causing wild populations to experience rapid trait change and local
extirpation. The resulting effects on intraspecific variation could have substantial …

The subdiscipline of 'community phylogenetics' is rapidly growing and influencing thinking
regarding community assembly. In particular, phylogenetic dispersion of co‐occurring …

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and the dynamic equilibrium model (DEM)
are influential theories in ecology. The IDH predicts large species numbers at intermediate …

Understanding the effects of intraspecific genetic diversity on the structure and functioning of
ecological communities is a fundamentally important part of evolutionary ecology and may …

Theory predicts that intraspecific genetic variation can increase the complexity of an
ecological network. To date, however, we are lacking empirical knowledge of the extent to …

An efficient and cost-effective method was established to enrich sulfur-based autotrophic
denitrifiers from anaerobic sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Successful …

Despite increasing evidence that plant intra-and inter-specific diversity increases primary
productivity, and that such effect may in turn cascade up to influence herbivores, there is little …

Background Empirical evidence on the link between agrobiodiversity and dietary diversity
appears to be inconclusive. Thus, there arises a need to determine other factors that could …