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 …

Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to
another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the …

Abstract Theory predicts that intraspecific competition should be stronger than interspecific
competition for any pair of stably coexisting species, yet previous literature reviews found …

There exists little doubt that the Earth's biodiversity is declining. The Nature Conservancy, for
example, has documented that one-third of the plant and animal species in the United States …

Recent work has shown that antagonist (eg predator–prey food web) and mutualist (eg
pollinator–plant) network structure can be altered by global environmental change drivers …

The mutually beneficial interactions between plants and their animal pollinators and seed
dispersers have been paramount in the generation of Earth's biodiversity. These mutualistic …

Evolutionary dynamics have been traditionally studied in the context of homogeneous or
spatially extended populations,,,. Here we generalize population structure by arranging …

The mutualistic interactions between plants and their pollinators or seed dispersers have
played a major role in the maintenance of Earth's biodiversity. To investigate how …

▪ Abstract It has often been argued that conserving biodiversity is necessary for maintaining
ecosystem functioning. We critically evaluate the current evidence for this argument …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …