Understanding the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has major
implications. Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships are generally investigated at …

Most species have one or more natural enemies, eg, predators, parasites, pathogens, and
herbivores, among others. These species in turn typically attack multiple victim species. This …

Soil physicochemical properties and vegetation types are the main factors affecting soil
microorganisms, but there are few studies on the effects of the disturbance following …

Almost all organisms on Earth exhibit ontogenetic niche shifts, which causes great
phenotypic variation among individuals and is thus considered to critically mediate …

Body size is an integral functional trait that underlies pollination‐related ecological
processes, yet it is often impractical to measure directly. Allometric scaling laws have been …

Intra-population niche differences in generalist foragers have captured the interest of
ecologists, because such individuality can have important ecological and evolutionary …

The ecological consequences of environmental change are highly dependent on the
functional contributions of the surviving community, but categorical descriptors commonly …

Linking the structure of communities to ecosystem functioning has been a perennial
challenge in ecology. Studies on ecosystem function are traditionally focused on changes in …

Phenotypic variability is increasingly assessed through functional response and effect traits,
which provide a mechanistic framework for investigating how an organism responds to …

Spatial and temporal variation can confound interpretations of relationships within and
between species in terms of diet composition, niche size, and trophic position (TP). The …