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 …

Plant–animal mutualistic networks sustain terrestrial biodiversity and human food security.
Global environmental changes threaten these networks, underscoring the urgency for …

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

Community ecology: the study of the patterns and processes involving two or more species-
has developed rapidly in the last two decades, driven by new and more sophisticated …

By integrating a wide range of experimental, comparative, and theoretical approaches,
ecologists are starting to gain a detailed understanding of the long-term dynamics of …

Intraguild predation (IGP), defined as killing and eating among potential competitors, seems
to be a ubiquitous interaction, differing from competition or predation. In the present study we …

Although many biologists have embraced microbial model systems as tools to address
genetic and physiological questions, the explicit use of microbial communities as model …

Intraguild predation is thought to be ubiquitous in natural food webs. Yet, theory on intraguild
predation predicts the intraguild prey to persist only under limited conditions. This gap …

Global-scale environmental problems are rarely regarded as amenable to traditional
scientific experiment. We argue here that small-scale experiments using 'model organisms' …

After more than a century of being regarded as botanical oddities, carnivorous plants have
emerged as model systems that are appropriate for addressing a wide array of ecological …