Traits are key for understanding the environmental responses and ecological roles of
organisms. Trait approaches to functional ecology are well established for plants, whereas …

Dung beetles are one of the most representative groups of insects associated with livestock,
as they take advantage of the manure of livestock for food and reproduction. They have …

Tropical forest restoration is becoming increasingly more applied to offset biodiversity loss
and maintain ecosystem processes, but knowledge about its efficacy is still limited. We …

A primary goal of community ecologists is to understand the processes underlying the
spatiotemporal patterns of species distribution. Understanding the dispersal process is of …

The loss of biodiversity caused by human activity is assumed to alter ecosystem functioning.
However our understanding of the magnitude of the effect of these changes on functional …

Forests in S outheast A sia are rapidly being logged and converted to oil palm. These
changes in land‐use are known to affect species diversity but consequences for the …

Biodiversity loss can precipitate extinction cascades and impair ecological processes. These
'downstream'effects will be exacerbated if functionally important taxa are tightly linked with …

Dung beetles are increasingly used as a study taxon—both as bioindicators of
environmental change, and as a model system for exploring ecosystem functioning. The …

Comparative analyses that link information on species' traits, environmental change, and
organism response have rarely identified unambiguous trait correlates of vulnerability. We …

Context Identifying the drivers sha** biological assemblages in fragmented tropical
landscapes is critical for designing effective conservation strategies. It is still unclear …