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 …

A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

A growing understanding of the ecology of seed dispersal has so far had little influence on
conservation practice, while the needs of conservation practice have had little influence on …

Research linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been mostly centred on
the influence of species richness on ecosystem functions in small‐scale experiments with …

Ecological networks depict the interactions between species, mainly based on observations
in the field. The information contained in such interaction matrices depends on the sampling …

Species' functional roles in key ecosystem processes such as predation, pollination or seed
dispersal are determined by the resource use of consumer species. An interaction between …

Ecological networks are a useful tool to study the complexity of biotic interactions at a
community level. Advances in the understanding of network patterns encourage the …

The success of a biological invasion is context dependent, and yet two key concepts—the
invasiveness of species and the invasibility of recipient ecosystems—are often defined and …

Modularity is a recurrent and important property of bipartite ecological networks. Although
well‐resolved ecological networks describe interaction frequencies between species pairs …

This chapter summarizes research on seed dispersal vectors (water, wind and animals), and
the factors (including seed size and chemical composition, and plant habit) that determine …