Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Over half of the European landscape is under agricultural management and has been for
millennia. Many species and ecosystems of conservation concern in Europe depend on …

The impact of local biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning is well established, but the
role of larger-scale biodiversity dynamics in the delivery of ecosystem services remains …

Sustainable and resilient agricultural systems are needed to feed and fuel a growing human
population. However, the current model of agricultural intensification which produces high …

Food webs influence ecosystem diversity and functioning. Contemporary defaunation has
reduced food web complexity, but simplification caused by past defaunation is difficult to …

Biodiversity loss can affect the viability of ecosystems by decreasing the ability of
communities to respond to environmental change and disturbances. Agricultural …

Drastic biodiversity declines have raised concerns about the deterioration of ecosystem
functions and have motivated much recent research on the relationship between species …

Understanding the processes sha** biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

Human land-use changes represent the most important drivers of biodiversity loss, and
amphibians and reptiles represent the most threatened groups of vertebrates globally …

Aim Functional diversity is a key facet of biodiversity that is increasingly being measured to
quantify its changes following disturbance and to understand its effects on ecosystem …