Ecological investigations are increasingly using functional diversity in order to understand
different patterns, such as species occurrence, species competitive abilities, and the …

Wild large herbivores are declining worldwide. Despite extensive use of exclosure
experiments to investigate herbivore impacts, there is little consensus on the effects of wild …

Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

Understanding the consequences of species loss in complex ecological communities is one
of the great challenges in current biodiversity research. For a long time, this topic has been …

There is a growing interest in using trait-based approaches to characterize the functional
structure of animal communities. Quantitative methods have been derived mostly for plant …

The response and effect trait framework, if supported empirically, would provide for powerful
and general predictions about how biodiversity loss leads to loss in ecosystem function. This …

The ecological consequences of environmental change are highly dependent on the
functional contributions of the surviving community, but categorical descriptors commonly …

As fragmented landscapes become increasingly common around the world, managing the
spatial arrangement of landscape elements (ie, landscape configuration) may help to …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity, yet separating their effects is
challenging. We use a multi-trophic, trait-based, and spatially explicit general ecosystem …

Climate change is triggering a global reorganization of marine life. Biogeographical
transition zones, diversity-rich regions straddling biogeographical units where many species …