Climatic changes, including altered precipitation regimes, will affect key ecosystem
processes, such as plant productivity and biodiversity for many terrestrial ecosystems. Past …

Temporary rivers and streams are among the most common and most hydrologically
dynamic freshwater ecosystems. The number of temporary rivers and the severity of flow …

Soil microbes comprise a large portion of the genetic diversity on Earth and influence a large
number of important ecosystem processes. Increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition …

Losses and gains in species diversity affect ecological stability,,,,,–and the sustainability of
ecosystem functions and services,,,,–. Experiments and models have revealed positive …

Growing recognition of the importance of climate extremes as drivers of contemporary and
future ecological dynamics has led to increasing interest in studying these locally and …

A fundamental challenge in experimental ecology is to capture nonlinearities of ecological
responses to interacting environmental drivers. Here, we demonstrate that gradient designs …

Ocean acidification is an undisputed fact. The ocean presently takes up one-fourth of the
carbon CO2 emitted to the atmosphere from human activities. As this CO2 dissolves in the …

The first decade of the new millennium saw a flurry of experiments to establish a mechanistic
understanding of how climate change might transform the global biota, including marine …

The objective of science is to understand the natural world; we argue that prediction is the
only way to demonstrate scientific understanding, implying that prediction should be a …

Understanding the interactions among anthropogenic stressors is critical for effective
conservation and management of ecosystems. Freshwater scientists have invested …