Plant–herbivore interactions have evolved in response to coevolutionary dynamics, along
with selection driven by abiotic conditions. We examine how abiotic factors influence trait …

Macroclimatic variation along latitudinal gradients provides an excellent natural laboratory to
investigate the role of temperature and the potential impacts of climate warming on terrestrial …

Plant‐soil feedback (PSF) theory provides a powerful framework for understanding plant
dynamics by integrating growth assays into predictions of whether soil communities stabilise …

Biotic interactions underlie ecosystem structure and function, but predicting interaction
outcomes is difficult. We tested the hypothesis that biotic interaction strength increases …

Question Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with
mean annual precipitation? Location Global. Methods We quantified the strength of the …

Despite the importance of consumers in structuring communities, and the widespread
assumption that consumption is strongest at low latitudes, empirical tests for global scale …

Until the 1990s, herbivory on aquatic vascular plants was considered to be of minor
importance, and the predominant view was that freshwater and marine macrophytes did not …

One of the most well-supported theories regarding the evolution of plant defenses is the
resource availability hypothesis (RAH). RAH posits that species from high-resource …

Aim To investigate the overall effect of spiders on pest suppression and crop performance,
and to explore the extent to which the biocontrol efficacy of spiders depends on the …

Invasive plants can disrupt a range of trophic interactions in native communities. As a novel
resource they can affect the performance of native insect herbivores and their natural …