Under global change, how biological diversity and ecosystem services are maintained in
time is a fundamental question. Ecologists have long argued about multiple mechanisms by …

Trait‐based approaches are increasingly being used to test mechanisms underlying species
assemblages and biotic interactions across a wide range of organisms including terrestrial …

Warming temperatures are increasing rainfall extremes, yet arthropod responses to climatic
fluctuations remain poorly understood. Here, we used spatiotemporal variation in tropical …

Temperature extremes are predicted to increase in frequency, intensity and duration under
global warming and are believed to significantly affect community composition and …

Both the environment and the spatial configuration of habitat patches are important factors
that shape community composition and affect species diversity patterns. Species have traits …

Ground dwelling arthropods present in agricultural systems regulate multiple ecosystem
services (ES), such as nutrient and carbon cycling and biological pest control. The presence …

The ongoing research 'boom'in soil ecology has been advanced by a widespread use of
laboratory experiments to investigate mechanisms that could not be unravelled with field …

Soil organic matter (SOM) transformation processes are regulated by the activities of plants,
microbes, and fauna. Compared with plants and microbes, effects of soil fauna are less …

In the animal kingdom, living in group is driven by a tradeoff between the costs and the
benefits of this way of life. This review focuses especially on the benefits of aggregation and …

It has been widely recognized that species show extensive variation in form and function.
Based on species' attributes, they can be positioned along major axes of variation, which are …