Human actions challenge nature in many ways. Ecological responses are ineluctably
complex, demanding measures that describe them succinctly. Collectively, these measures …

Despite much recent progress, our understanding of diversity–stability relationships across
different study systems remains incomplete. In particular, recent theory clarified that within …

Classical theory shows that large communities are destabilized by random interactions
among species pairs, creating an upper bound on ecosystem diversity. However, species …

Ecological stability is touted as a complex and multifaceted concept, including components
such as variability, resistance, resilience, persistence and robustness. Even though a …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

The declining health of marine ecosystems around the world is evidence that current
piecemeal governance is inadequate to successfully support healthy coastal and ocean …

The detection of causal interactions is of great importance when inferring complex
ecosystem functional and structural networks for basic and applied research. Convergent …

Predictions on the consequences of the rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and
associated climate warming for population dynamics, ecological community structure and …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 42–46 Abstract Insect outbreaks in forest and agriculture
monocultures led Charles Elton to propose, a half‐century ago, that higher plant diversity …

Current species extinction rates are at unprecedentedly high levels. While human activities
can be the direct cause of some extinctions, it is becoming increasingly clear that species …