Understanding, modeling, and predicting the impact of global change on ecosystem
functioning across biogeographical gradients can benefit from enhanced capacity to …

Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-
based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However …

Ecosystem Services (ES) are an established conceptual framework for attributing value to
the benefits that nature provides to humans. As the promise of robust ES-driven …

Ecology is a synthetic discipline benefiting from open access to data from the earth, life, and
social sciences. Technological challenges exist, however, due to the dispersed and …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

In a rapidly changing world, ecology has the potential to move from empirical and
conceptual stages to application and management issues. It is now possible to make large …

Comparative functional ecology seeks to understand why and how ecological systems and
their components operate differently across environments. Although traditionally used in …

Ecology is evolving rapidly and increasingly changing into a more open, accountable,
interdisciplinary, collaborative and data-intensive science. Discovering, integrating and …