Despite the development of network science, we lack clear heuristics for how far different
disturbance types propagate within and across species interaction networks. We discuss the …

Abstract Knowledge of ecosystem-size influences on river populations and communities is
integral to the balancing of human and environmental needs for water. The multiple …

Microbes inhabiting deep soil layers are known to be different from their counterpart in
topsoil yet remain under investigation in terms of their structure, function, and how their …

Freshwater ecosystems harbour a disproportionately high biodiversity relative to their area,
being also one of the most threatened ecosystem types worldwide. However, our capacity to …

Animal hosts have evolved intricate associations with microbial symbionts, where both
depend on each other for particular functions. In many cases, these associations lead to …

Land‐use and land‐cover transitions can affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a
myriad of ways, including how energy is transferred within food‐webs. Size spectra (ie …

Local communities and individual species jointly contribute to the overall beta diversity in
metacommunities. However, it is mostly unknown whether the local contribution (LCBD) and …

Marine planktonic bacteria and archaea commonly exhibit pronounced seasonal succession
in community composition. But the existence of seasonality in their assembly processes and …

A range of factors may determine the structure of ecological communities in time and space,
in particular niches, dispersal limits, and the evolutionary history of the species. In the last …

Deterministic factors including homogeneous and heterogeneous selection and stochastic
factors jointly shape ecological communities. However, a quantitative synthesis of the factors …