While the relationship between facilitation and competition has been explored extensively in
recent years, there is also a natural link between facilitation and mutualism, as both are …

Humans have drastically altered the abundance of animals in marine ecosystems via
exploitation. Reduced abundance can destabilize food webs, leading to cascading indirect …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

Seagrasses are important marine foundation species that are reported to be declining
worldwide, with almost 15% of species considered threatened. Seagrasses are highly …

The earth is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, and projections indicate continuing and
accelerating rates of global changes. Future alterations in communities and ecosystems may …

Declines in biodiversity have prompted concern over the consequences of species loss for
the goods and services provided by natural ecosystems. However, relatively few studies …

Most organisms interact with multiple mutualistic species that confer different functional
benefits, yet current conceptual frameworks do not fully address this complexity. A network …

Generalizations regarding the mechanisms underlying the effects of plant diversity on
ecosystem processes, and whether the patterns transcend study systems remain elusive …

The pH of the oceans' surface water is drop**, termed ocean acidification (OA), and the
0.4 unit reduction in pH by 2100 is projected to negatively impact benthic coastal organisms …

While all species interact with multiple mutualists, the fitness consequences and molecular
mechanisms underlying these interactions remain largely unknown. We combined factorial …