The accelerating rate of global change has focused attention on the cumulative impacts of
novel and extreme environmental changes (ie stressors), especially in marine ecosystems …

The global biodiversity crisis concerns not only unprecedented loss of species within
communities, but also related consequences for ecosystem function. Community ecology …

The future response of marine ecosystem diversity to continued anthropogenic forcing is
poorly constrained. Phytoplankton are a diverse set of organisms that form the base of the …

In ecosystems, the efficiency of energy transfer from resources to consumers determines the
biomass structure of food webs. As a general rule, about 10% of the energy produced in one …

Accumulating evidence suggests that the average body size of many organisms is declining
in response to climate warming. This phenomenon has been suggested to represent a …

Freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity are presently seriously threatened by global
development and population growth, leading to increases in nutrient inputs and …

Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has
prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most …

Species' ecological preferences are progressively important for understanding distribution
patterns, for conserving biodiversity or for assessing and evaluating the status of freshwater …

Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically
applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have …

Peatlands contain approximately one third of all soil organic carbon (SOC). Warming can
alter above‐and belowground linkages that regulate soil organic carbon dynamics and C …