Despite their extent and socio‐ecological importance, a comprehensive biogeographical
synthesis of drylands is lacking. Here we synthesize the biogeography of key organisms …

Insects play a key role in the regulation and dynamics of many ecosystem services (ES).
However, this role is often assumed, with limited or no experimental quantification of its real …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Fairy circles (FCs) are regular vegetation patterns found in drylands of Namibia and Western
Australia. It is virtually unknown whether they are also present in other regions of the world …

All matters related to ethnography flow from a decision that originates at the very beginning
of the research process—the selection of the basic object of analysis—and yet fieldworkers …

Vegetation Turing patterns play a critical role in the ecological functioning of arid and semi‐
arid ecosystems. However, the long-range spatial features of these patterns have been …

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

As soil engineers, termites play a key role in the functioning of many tropical and subtropical
ecosystems. This reviews assesses advances in our knowledge of the beneficial influences …

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

Using remotely sensed imagery to identify biophysical components across landscapes is an
important avenue of investigation for ecologists studying ecosystem dynamics. With high …