Metacommunity theory provides an understanding of how spatial processes determine the
structure and function of communities at local and regional scales. Although metacommunity …

Species interactions can be important mediators of community and ecosystem responses to
environmental stressors. However, we still lack a mechanistic understanding of the indirect …

Species and trophic richness often increase with habitat size. Although many ecological
processes have been evoked to explain both patterns, the environmental stress associated …

Predators can have dramatic effects on food web structure and ecosystem processes.
However, the total effect of predators will be a combination of prey removal due to …

Ecosystems are being stressed by climate change, but few studies have tested food web
responses to changes in precipitation patterns and the consequences to ecosystem function …

Tank bromeliads form a conspicuous, yet neglected freshwater habitat in Neotropical forests.
Recent studies driven by interests in medical entomology, fundamental aspects of bromeliad …

Predators have a key role shaping competitor dynamics in food webs. Perhaps the most
obvious way this occurs is when predators reduce competitor densities. However …

The duration of the dry seasons in south‐eastern Amazonia is expected to increase. Little is
known of how freshwater assemblages respond to drought in the humid rainforests and of …

Functional responses describe how the proportion of prey consumed by a predator changes
as prey density changes. For predators consuming a single prey species, functional …

Anthocoris nemoralis is the dominant predator of pear sucker (Cacopsylla pyri) in the UK.
Anthocoris nemoralis migrates into orchards in spring or is introduced as a biocontrol agent …