Climate change has become increasingly severe, threatening ecosystem stability and, in
particular, biodiversity. As a typical indicator of ecosystem evolution, vegetation growth is …

Localized ecological interactions can generate striking large-scale spatial patterns in
ecosystems through spatial self-organization. Possible mechanisms include oscillating …

Channel networks are key to coastal wetland functioning and resilience under climate
change. Vegetation affects sediment and hydrodynamics in many different ways, which calls …

Secondary microplastics usually come from the breakdown of larger plastics due to
weathering and environmental stress cracking of plastic wastes. In the present study, 5013 …

Allee effects are (broadly) defined as a decline in individual fitness at low population size or
density. They can result in critical population thresholds below which populations crash to …

Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal
wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes minimizing …

Bivalves, such as clams and oysters, are species having two-valved shells. In the marine
ecosystem these species play a unique and essential role. This book examines the ecology …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 291–300 Abstract Organisms eating each other are only one of
many types of well documented and important interactions among species. Other such types …

After a period of heavy emphasis on negative interactions, such as predation and
competition, the past two decades have seen an explosion of literature on the role of positive …

Highly organized vegetation patterns can be found in a number of landscapes around the
world. In recent years, several authors have investigated the processes underlying …