Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

A major challenge for advancing our understanding of the functional role of soil microbial
communities is to link changes in their structure and function under climate change. To …

Climate change is impacting virtually all marine life. Adaptation strategies will require a
robust understanding of the risks to species and ecosystems and how those propagate to …

The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling
ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined resilience as the ability of …

Microbial communities are at the heart of all ecosystems, and yet microbial community
behavior in disturbed environments remains difficult to measure and predict. Understanding …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

Many dynamical systems, including lakes, organisms, ocean circulation patterns, or financial
markets, are now thought to have tip** points where critical transitions to a contrasting …

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

Catastrophic ecological regime shifts may be announced in advance by statistical early
warning signals such as slowing return rates from perturbation and rising variance. The …

INTRODUCTION Financial markets may collapse, rainforest can shift to savanna, a person
can become trapped in a depression, and the Gulf Stream can come to a standstill. Such …