Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

The fragmentation of forests is a dominant human impact worldwide with major implications
for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although many studies have …

There is high uncertainty surrounding the magnitude of current and future biodiversity loss
that is occurring due to human disturbances. Here, we present a global meta‐analysis of …

Most ecosystems are affected by anthropogenic or natural pulse disturbances, which alter
the community composition and functioning for a limited period of time. Whether and how …

There is little consensus about how natural (eg productivity, disturbance) and anthropogenic
(eg invasive species, habitat destruction) ecological drivers influence biodiversity. Here, we …

Habitat loss is the dominant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial
environments. In this study, we used an a priori classification of bird species based on their …

Habitat fragmentation changes thermal conditions in remnant patches, and thermal
conditions strongly influence organism morphology, distribution, and activity patterns …

Background Disturbances alter the diversity and composition of microbial communities. Yet
a generalized empirical assessment of microbiome responses to disturbance across …

A major challenge in global change ecology is to predict the trajectory and magnitude of
community change in response to global change drivers (GCDs). Here, we present a new …