To achieve ecological and reproductive success, plants need to mitigate a multitude of
stressors. The stressors encountered by plants are highly dynamic but typically vary …

Quantifying the abundance of species is essential to ecology, evolution, and conservation.
The distribution of species abundances is fundamental to numerous longstanding questions …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Insects and other arthropods are central to terrestrial ecosystems. However, data are lacking
regarding their global population abundance. We synthesized thousands of evaluations …

Coevolutionary models suggest that herbivores drive diversification and community
composition in plants. For herbivores, many questions remain regarding how plant defenses …

The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions,
including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions …

Processes sha** the distribution of foliar fungal endophyte species remain poorly
understood. Despite increasing evidence that these cryptic fungal symbionts of plants …

Species diversity of arboreal arthropods tends to increase during rainforest succession so
that primary forest communities comprise more species than those from secondary …

Escalation (macroevolutionary increase) or divergence (disparity between relatives) in trait
values are two frequent outcomes of the plant‐herbivore arms race. We studied the …

Much of the world's tropical forests have been affected by anthropogenic disturbance. These
forests are important biodiversity reservoirs whose diversity, structure and function must be …