Context Scale is the lens that focuses ecological relationships. Organisms select habitat at
multiple hierarchical levels and at different spatial and/or temporal scales within each level …

All ecological disciplines consider temporal dynamics, although relevant concepts have
been developed almost independently. We here introduce basic principles of temporal …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

Landscape pattern is spatially correlated and scale-dependent. Thus, understanding
landscape structure and functioning requires multiscale information, and scaling functions …

Aquatic macrophytes play an important role in structuring communities in aquatic
environments. These plants provide physical structure, increase habitat complexity and …

Habitat selection is the disproportionate use of available conditions and resources, and
involves responses in space and time to perceived risks and rewards. It frequently depends …

A central tenet of ecology and biogeography is that the broad outlines of species ranges are
determined by climate, whereas the effects of biotic interactions are manifested at local …

To understand ecological phenomena, it is necessary to observe their behaviour across
multiple spatial and temporal scales. Since this need was first highlighted in the 1980s …

Understanding how biodiversity responds to urbanization is challenging, due in part to the
single‐city focus of most urban ecological research. Here, we delineate continent‐scale …

In 1687, Newton reported that the same laws could describe Galileo's data on balls rolling
down ramps and Brahe's data on planets moving around the Sun. This observation implied …