The global biodiversity crisis concerns not only unprecedented loss of species within
communities, but also related consequences for ecosystem function. Community ecology …

Microbial communities comprise an interwoven matrix of biological diversity modified by
physical and chemical variation over space and time. Although these communities are the …

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics can occur on similar timescales,,,,,,. However,
theoretical predictions of how rapid evolution can affect ecological dynamics are …

Ecosystems are complex and sparsely observed making inference and prediction
challenging. Empirical dynamic modelling (EDM) circumvents the need for a parametric …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 989–997 Abstract Adaptive variation in the traits determining
ecological interactions can lead to evolution so rapid that ecological dynamics change …

Experimental studies of evolution performed in nature and the associated demonstration of
rapid evolution, observable on a time scale of months to years, were an acclaimed novelty in …

Conventional theories of population and community dynamics are based on a single
currency such as number of individuals, biomass, carbon or energy. However, organisms …

Trophic relationships, such as those between predator and prey or between pathogen and
host, are key interactions linking species in ecological food webs. The structure of these …

Mechanistic understanding of consumer‐resource dynamics is critical to predicting the
effects of global change on ecosystem structure, function and services. Such understanding …

A central and perhaps insurmountable challenge of invasion ecology is to predict which
combinations of species and habitats most effectively promote and prevent biological …