A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily
focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale …

Multiple large-scale restoration strategies are emerging globally to counteract ecosystem
degradation and biodiversity loss. However, restoration often remains insufficient to offset …

Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has
prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most …

Larger geographical areas contain more species—an observation raised to a law in
ecology. Less explored is whether biodiversity changes are accompanied by a modification …

Classic local stability theory predicts that complex ecological networks are unstable and are
unlikely to persist despite empiricists' abundant documentation of such complexity in nature …

Understanding the behaviors of ecological systems is challenging given their multifaceted
complexity. To proceed, theoretical models such as Lotka-Volterra dynamics with random …

Species–area relationships (SAR) are fundamental in the understanding of biodiversity
patterns and of critical importance for predicting species extinction risk worldwide. Despite …

Given the large-scale anthropogenic alteration of natural habitats, ecological restoration is
emerging as one of the most important disciplines in environmental science. Once habitats …