The meta-ecosystem framework demonstrates the significance of among-ecosystem spatial
flows for ecosystem dynamics and has fostered a rich body of theory. The high level of …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Dispersal mediates the flow of organisms in meta-communities and subsequently energy
and material flows in meta-ecosystems. Individuals within species often vary in dispersal …

The diversity of life and its organization in networks of interacting species has been a long-
standing theoretical puzzle for ecologists. Ever since May's provocative paper challenging …

Metacommunity theory provides an understanding of how spatial processes determine the
structure and function of communities at local and regional scales. Although metacommunity …

Habitat fragmentation and eutrophication have strong impacts on biodiversity.
Metacommunity research demonstrated that reduction in landscape connectivity may cause …

Ecosystems are widely interconnected by spatial flows of material, but the overall
importance of these flows relative to local ecosystem functioning remains unclear. Here we …

Ecological network analysis (ENA) provides a mechanistic framework for describing
complex species interactions, quantifying ecosystem services, and examining the impacts of …

Migration is ubiquitous and can strongly shape food webs and ecosystems. Less familiar,
however, is that the majority of life cycle, seasonal and diel migrations in nature are partial …

Abstract Almost 50 years ago, Michael Rosenzweig pointed out that nutrient addition can
destabilise food webs, leading to loss of species and reduced ecosystem function through …