Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Species–area relationships (SARs) are pivotal to understand the distribution of biodiversity
across spatial scales. We know little, however, about how the network of biotic interactions in …

By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how grou**s in nature
(typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food …

Larger geographical areas contain more species—an observation raised to a law in
ecology. Less explored is whether biodiversity changes are accompanied by a modification …

Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

Food chain length provides key information on the flow of nutrients and energy in
ecosystems. Variation in food chain length has primarily been explained by environmental …

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Urbanization can alter the composition of arthropod communities. However, little is known
about how urbanization affects ecological interactions. Using experimental colonies of the …

Human activities are altering the fundamental geography of biogeochemicals. Yet we lack
an understanding of how the spatial patterns in organismal stoichiometry affect …

Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …