Evaluating the state of ecosystems is a major concern for humanity. For that purpose, the
concept of ecological integrity has been present in both public policy and academia for …

The response of drylands to environmental gradients can be abrupt rather than gradual.
These shifts largely occur unannounced and are difficult to reverse once they happen; their …

According to the competitive exclusion principle, species with low competitive abilities
should be excluded by more efficient competitors; yet, they generally remain as rare species …

Strategic retirement and restoration of agricultural lands is a critical conservation opportunity
globally. The objective of this synthesis was to examine whether ecological habitat …

Positive indirect effects of consumers on their resources can stabilize food webs by
preventing overexploitation, but the coupling of trophic and non‐trophic interactions remains …

Pollination is thought to be under positive density‐dependence, destabilising plant
coexistence by conferring fitness disadvantages to rare species. Such disadvantage is …

Ecological communities are defined by species interacting dynamically in a given location at
a given time, and can be conveniently represented as networks of interactions. Pairwise …

Disentangling the interplay between species‐specific environmental preferences and micro‐
and macroscale determinants of species abundance within plant communities remains …

Empirical studies show that plant-soil feedbacks (PSF) can generate negative density
dependent (NDD) recruitment capable of maintaining plant community diversity at …

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning can be partitioned into complementarity effects,
driven by many species, and selection effects, driven by few. Selection effects occur through …