Relating biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural communities has become a
paramount challenge as links between trophic complexity and multiple ecosystem functions …

The belowground compartment of terrestrial ecosystems drives nutrient cycling, the
decomposition and stabilisation of organic matter, and supports aboveground life …

Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an
emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to …

Arthropod herbivores cause substantial economic costs that drive an increasing need to
develop environmentally sustainable approaches to herbivore control. Increasing plant …

Terrestrial animal biodiversity is increasingly being lost because of land-use change,.
However, functional and energetic consequences aboveground and belowground and …

INTRODUCTION The iterative evolution of secondarily marine tetrapods since the Paleozoic
offers the promise of better understanding how the anatomy and ecology of animals change …

Earthworms have been perceived as benevolent soil engineers since the time of Charles
Darwin, but several recent syntheses link earthworm activities to higher greenhouse gas …

Models that estimate rates of energy flow in complex food webs often fail to account for
species-specific prey selectivity of diverse consumer guilds. While DNA metabarcoding is …

Soil food webs are at the nexus of soil biodiversity, functioning, and stability. With a research
history of over 35 years, soil food-web research remains a challenging and relatively …

Energy dynamics within ecological communities are important in delivering ecosystem
services. However, it remains elusive how the energy fluxes within soil food webs respond to …