Our planet is changing at paces never observed before. Species extinction is happening at
faster rates than ever, greatly exceeding the five mass extinctions in the fossil record …

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

A central assumption in most ecological models is that the interactions in a community
operate only between pairs of species. However, two species may interactively affect the …

May's stability theory, which holds that large ecosystems can be stable up to a critical level of
complexity, a product of the number of resident species and the intensity of their interactions …

The role of species interactions in controlling the interplay between the stability of
ecosystems and their biodiversity is still not well understood. The ability of ecological …

Material flows—such as food trade—allow human societies to rely on natural resources
available both locally and in other regions of the planet. Thus, in a globalized world, multiple …

Invasion science is in a state of paradox, having low predictability despite strong, identifiable
covariates of invasion performance. We propose shifting the foundation metaphor of …

Random matrix theory successfully connects the structure of interactions of large ecological
communities to their ability to respond to perturbations. One of the most debated aspects of …

Land abandonment is considered an effective strategy for ecological restoration on a global
scale. However, few studies have focused on how environmental heterogeneity associated …

Complex systems are characterized by emergent patterns created by the nontrivial interplay
between dynamical processes and the networks of interactions on which these processes …