Ecosystems provide essential services to people including food, water, climate regulation,
and aesthetic experiences. Biodiversity can enhance and stabilize ecosystem function and …

Large nutrient levels and herbivory stress, particularly when acting together, drive a variety
of responses in seagrass communities that ultimately may weaken their carbon balance. An …

Biogeochemical cycling has often been characterized by physical and microbial processes,
yet animals can be essential mediators of energy and nutrients in ecosystems. Excretion by …

River-to-lake transitional areas are biogeochemically active ecosystems that can alter the
amount and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) as it moves through the aquatic …

Ecologists often separate pathways of energy flow into those based on either autotrophy
(green) or heterotrophy (brown). While these two pathways are easily separated by concept …

The annual global loss of organic carbon from terrestrial ecosystems into rivers is similar to
the organic carbon stored in soils each year. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) flows through …

The roles mobile animals and abiotic processes play as vectors for resource transfers
between ecosystems (“subsidies”) are well studied, but the idea that resources from animals …

An emerging consensus suggests that evolved intraspecific variation can be ecologically
important. However, evidence that evolved trait variation within vertebrates can influence …

Biomanipulation has been widely used in the ecological restoration of eutrophic lakes for
decades. However, biomanipulation is prone to failure if external nutrient loads are not …

Animals are a critical component of biogeochemical cycles. While animal mediated fluxes of
nutrients and energy have received considerable attention, the impacts of these fluxes on …