The earliest evolution of the animals remains a taxing biological problem, as all extant
clades are highly derived and the fossil record is not usually considered to be helpful. The …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 461–467 Abstract Predicting the consequences of changes in
biodiversity requires understanding both species' susceptibility to extirpation and their …

Much of what we know about the role of biodiversity in mediating ecosystem processes and
function stems from manipulative experiments, which have largely been performed in …

Species–environment models are important tools for ecology and conservation, but
ecologists generally lack knowledge of how spatial extent, habitat and environmental …

Urbanization and industrial development pressures have seriously impacted coastal
ecosystems, including vegetated intertidal and subtidal marine habitats such as barrier …

Thirteen seagrass beds located over a 80-km range in the brackish waters of SW, Finland,
northern Baltic Sea were investigated in order to determine the environmental variables …

A fundamental question in guild studies is how to separate species into guilds. In a seminal
manuscript, Fauchald & Jumars [Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review17 …

Pelagic and benthic systems usually interact, but their dynamics and production rates differ.
Such differences influence the distribution, reproductive cycles, growth rates, stability and …

There is unequivocal evidence that altered biodiversity, through changes in the expression
and distribution of functional traits, can have large impacts on ecosystem properties …

The escalating spread of invasive species increases the risk of disrupting the pathways of
energy flow through native ecosystems, modify the relative importance of resource ('bottom …