Interactions connect the units of ecological systems, forming networks. Individual-based
networks characterize variation in niches among individuals within populations. These …

Our planet is changing at paces never observed before. Species extinction is happening at
faster rates than ever, greatly exceeding the five mass extinctions in the fossil record …

Soil organisms have an important role in aboveground community dynamics and ecosystem
functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, most studies have considered soil biota as a …

Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

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

Salinization is considered a major threat to soil fertility and agricultural productivity
throughout the world. Soil microbes play a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem stability and …

In a rapidly changing world, ecology has the potential to move from empirical and
conceptual stages to application and management issues. It is now possible to make large …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1170–1181 Abstract Interactions among species drive the
ecological and evolutionary processes in ecological communities. These interactions are …

The Flexible Phenotype attempts a true synthesis of physiology, behaviour, and ecology by
develo** an empirical argument that describes the intimate connections between …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 291–300 Abstract Organisms eating each other are only one of
many types of well documented and important interactions among species. Other such types …