Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to
understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest sense …

Managing ecological communities requires fast detection of species that are sensitive to
perturbations. Yet, the focus on recovery to equilibrium has prevented us from assessing …

A universal feature of ecological systems is that species do not interact with others with the
same sign and strength. Yet, the consequences of this asymmetry in biotic interactions for …

We propose that the ecological resilience of communities to permanent changes of the
environment can be based on how variation in the overall abundance of individuals affects …

Abstract Theory posits that the persistence of species in ecological communities is shaped
by their interactions within and across trophic guilds. However, we lack empirical …

The microbiome emits informative signals of biological organization and environmental
pressure that aid ecosystem monitoring and prediction. Are the many signals reducible to a …

Research Highlight: Sæther, BE, Engen, S., & Solbu, EB (2023a). Assessing the sensitivity
and resistance of communities in a changing environment. Journal of Animal Ecology …

Energy is life's main currency. Understanding the requirements, flow, and availability of
energy among organisms then becomes synonymous for our understanding of the …

Understanding how communities respond to perturbations requires us to consider not only
changes in the abundance of individual species but also correlated changes that can …

Networks are useful descriptions of the structure of many complex systems. Unsurprisingly, it
is thus important to analyze the robustness of networks in many scientific disciplines. In …