Seed dispersal is key to the persistence and spread of plant populations. Because the
majority of plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds, global change drivers that …

Rewilding is a restoration approach that aims to promote self-regulating complex
ecosystems by restoring non-human ecological processes while reducing human control …

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human
societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices …

Half of all plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds. Seed dispersal interactions
lost through defaunation and gained during novel community assembly influence whether …

In spite of their small global area and restricted distributions, tropical montane forests (TMFs)
are biodiversity hotspots and important ecosystem services providers, but are also highly …

Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for
understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems …

Regional species assemblages have been shaped by colonization, speciation and
extinction over millions of years. Humans have altered biogeography by introducing species …

Ecological networks have classically been studied at site and landscape scales, yet recent
efforts have been made to collate these data into global repositories. This offers an …

Human activities, such as land use change and eutrophication, threaten freshwater
biodiversity and ecosystem function. In this study, we examined both the α-and β-diversity of …

Despite the development of network science, we lack clear heuristics for how far different
disturbance types propagate within and across species interaction networks. We discuss the …