Many natural disturbances have a strong climate forcing, and concern is rising about how
ecosystems will respond to disturbance regimes to which they are not adapted. Novelty can …

Traits are measurable features of organisms. Functional traits aspire to more. They quantify
an organism's ecology and, ultimately, predict ecosystem functions based on local …

Pollinator biodiversity loss occurs at unprecedented rates globally, with particularly sharp
declines documented in the North Temperate Zone. There is currently no consensus on the …

Traits are key for understanding the environmental responses and ecological roles of
organisms. Trait approaches to functional ecology are well established for plants, whereas …

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 …

The global trend in losing biodiversity is affecting ecosystems due to changes in their
functions and services. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning has become increasingly …

In the current global biodiversity crisis, the development of tools to define, quantify, compare,
and predict resilience is essential for understanding the responses of species to global …

Maintaining the resilience of natural populations, their ability to resist and recover from
disturbance, is crucial to prevent biodiversity loss. However, the lack of appropriate data and …

Ecosystem functions provided by forests are threatened by direct and indirect effects of
global change drivers such as climate warming land‐use change, biological invasions, and …

Summary In July 2020, Japan undertook the first deep-sea mining test of cobalt-rich crusts
on the summit of Takuyo-Daigo Seamount within their exclusive economic zone (EEZ) …