Biologists have long known that predators play a key role in structuring ecological
communities, but recent research suggests that predator richness–the number of genotypes …

Conservation research has historically been aimed at preserving high value natural habitats,
but urbanization and its associated impacts have prompted broader mandates that include …

Biodiversity conservation does predominantly focus on protected natural areas, but has to
consider also the usually Human-dominated matrix in which these natural areas are …

Multitrophic interactions play key roles in the origin and maintenance of species diversity,
and the study of these interactions has contributed to important theoretical advances in …

Ecological stoichiometry (ES) has become one of the most pervasive theoretical frameworks
in environmental sciences and biology in the last two decades. ES allows predicting …

Over the past half century, ecologists have tried to unravel the factors that drive species
richness patterns in ecological communities. One influential theory is island biogeography …

We present a model predicting how the species richness and diversity within benthic
functional groups should vary across the full environmental stress gradient across which a …

The interactive effects of changing biodiversity of consumers and their prey are poorly
understood but are likely to be important under realistic scenarios of biodiversity loss and …

To increase the generality of biodiversity–ecosystem function theory, studies must be
expanded to include real communities in a variety of systems. We modified JW Fox's …

Despite the progress made in explaining trophic interactions through the stoichiometric
interplay between consumers and resources, it remains unclear how the number of species …