Ecological stressors are considered to negatively affect biological systems; however,
corresponding responses to stressors can be complex, depending on the ecological …

The worldwide extinction of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene is
evident from the fossil record, with dominant theories suggesting a climate, human or …

The insurance effect of biodiversity—that diversity stabilises aggregate ecosystem properties—
is mechanistically underlain by inter‐and intraspecific trait variation in organismal responses …

Studies of spatial population synchrony constitute a central approach for understanding the
drivers of ecological dynamics. Recently, identifying the ecological impacts of climate …

Highlights•The fluctuations of spatially disjunct populations are often correlated through
time.•Such spatial synchrony can impact pest management and species …

Diversity and interspecific synchrony are among the main drivers behind the temporal
stability of community abundance. Diversity can increase stability through the portfolio effect …

The metapopulation concept offers significant explanatory power in ecology and
evolutionary biology. Metapopulations, a set of spatially distributed populations linked by …

Interference competition by noisy miners Manorina melanocephala threatens small
woodland bird communities in the highly modified agricultural landscapes of southeastern …

Understanding the drivers and impacts of spatiotemporal variation in species abundance on
community trajectories is key to understanding the factors contributing to ecosystem …

Ecological stability in plant communities is shaped by bottom-up processes like
environmental resource fluctuations and top-down controls such as herbivory, each of which …