We review empirical studies on how bioinvasions alter food webs and how a food-web
perspective may change their prediction and management. Predation is found to underlie …

Trait-based approaches are increasingly used in ecology. Phytoplankton communities, with
a rich history as model systems in community ecology, are ideally suited for applying and …

The finding that adaptive evolution can often be substantial enough to alter ecological
dynamics challenges traditional views of community ecology that ignore evolution. Here, we …

Biological invasions dramatically affect the distribution, abundance and reproduction of
many native species. Because of these ecological effects, exotic species can also influence …

1. We review theoretical and empirical studies to identify instances where evolutionary
processes significantly affect the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems. 2 …

Explaining the structure of terrestrial and aquatic food webs remains one of the most
important challenges of ecological theory. Most existing models use emergent properties of …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 169–178 Abstract Despite growing awareness of the significance
of body‐size and predator–prey body‐mass ratios for the stability of ecological networks, our …

Macroecological scaling patterns, such as between prey and predator biomass, are
fundamental to our understanding of the rules of biological organization and ecosystem …

The metacommunity framework predicts that local coexistence depends on the outcome of
local species interactions and regional migration. In analogous fashion, spatial structure …

Adaptive evolution within species and community assembly involving multiple species are
both affected by dispersal and spatiotemporal environmental variation and may thus interact …