Characterizing how ecosystems are responding to rapid environmental change has become
a major focus of ecological research. The empirical study of ecological stability, which aims …

Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to
assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic …

While the contribution of biodiversity to supporting multiple ecosystem functions is well
established in natural ecosystems, the relationship of the above-and below-ground diversity …

The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling
ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined resilience as the ability of …

The stability of the arable ecosystem plays a crucial role in the sustainable utilization of land
resources and the efficiency of agricultural production. However, irrigated agriculture has led …

Networks of species interactions underpin numerous ecosystem processes, but
comprehensively sampling these interactions is difficult. Interactions intrinsically vary across …

This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Managing ecological communities requires fast detection of species that are sensitive to
perturbations. Yet, the focus on recovery to equilibrium has prevented us from assessing …

Anthropogenic activities are increasingly affecting ecosystems across the globe. Meanwhile,
empirical and theoretical evidence suggest that natural systems can exhibit abrupt collapses …

The stability of cultivated land ecosystem is crucial to the green and high-quality
development of agriculture. Revealing its spatio-temporal differentiation is an important …