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A Synthesis is Emerging between Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function and Ecological Resilience Research: Reply to Mori

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

A functional guide to functional diversity measures

Across ecosystem comparisons of size structure: methods, approaches and prospects

scientific article published in 2011

Adaptive foragers and community ecology: linking individuals to communities and ecosystems

scientific article

Adaptive foraging and the rewiring of size-structured food webs following extinctions

scientific article published in 2011

Analysis of a summary network of co-infection in humans reveals that parasites interact most via shared resources

scientific article

Are All Hosts Created Equal? Partitioning Host Species Contributions to Parasite Persistence in Multihost Communities

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Are fire, soil fertility and toxicity, water availability, plant functional diversity, and litter decomposition related in a Neotropical savanna?

scientific article

BEMOVI, software for extracting behavior and morphology from videos, illustrated with analyses of microbes

scientific article

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability

scientific article published in Nature

Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change

scientific article

Body-size distributions and size-spectra: universal indicators of ecological status?

scientific article

Climate change in size-structured ecosystems

scientific article

Combined use of pheromone trails and visual landmarks by the common garden ant Lasius niger

scientific article published in 2008

Community trait overdispersion due to trophic interactions: concerns for assembly process inference

scientific article published in October 2016

Context-dependent effects of predator removal from experimental microcosm communities

article published in 2009

Dendrograms and measures of functional diversity: a second instalment

article by Owen L Petchey & Kevin J. Gaston published July 2009 in Oikos

Dendrograms and measuring functional diversity

scientific article published in 2007

Density- and trait-mediated effects of a parasite and a predator in a tri-trophic food web.

scientific article published on 29 December 2014

Developing and Integrating Advanced Movement Features Improves Automated Classification of Ciliate Species

scientific article

Direct and indirect effects of temperature on the population dynamics and ecosystem functioning of aquatic microbial ecosystems

scientific article

Diversity of response and effect traits provides complementary information about avian community dynamics linked to ecological function

scientific article published on 19 June 2021

Dynamic species classification of microorganisms across time, abiotic and biotic environments-A sliding window approach.

scientific article

Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate

scientific article published in 2010

Ecological opportunity and predator-prey interactions: linking eco-evolutionary processes and diversification in adaptive radiations.

scientific article published in March 2018

Ecology. Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals

scientific article

Editorial overview: Environmental change issues: Integrated global change and biodiversity research for a sustainable future

Effects of directional environmental change on extinction dynamics in experimental microbial communities are predicted by a simple model

article

Effects of recent environmental change on accuracy of inferences of extinction status

scientific article

Effects on ecosystem resilience of biodiversity, extinctions, and the structure of regional species pools

article

Environmental change and predator diversity drive alpha and beta diversity in freshwater macro and microorganisms

scientific article published on 03 June 2018

Environmental colour affects aspects of single-species population dynamics

article

Environmental warming alters food-web structure and ecosystem function

scientific article published in Nature

Evolution increases ecosystem temporal stability and recovery from a flood in grassland communities

Evolutionary rescue can be impeded by temporary environmental amelioration

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Experimentally testing the accuracy of an extinction estimator: Solow's optimal linear estimation model

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

Extinction and the loss of functional diversity

scientific article published in 2002

FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF MAMMALIAN PREDATORS AND EXTINCTION IN ISLAND BIRDS

scientific article published in 2005

Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Fit, efficiency, and biology: some thoughts on judging food web models

scientific article

Food web persistence is enhanced by non-trophic interactions

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Foraging biology predicts food web complexity

scholarly article

Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition

article

Functional diversity across space and time: trends in wader communities on British estuaries

scientific article published in 2011

Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward

scientific article published in June 2006

Getting Started with R

article published in 2017

HOW DO DIFFERENT MEASURES OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY PERFORM?

article

High Loss of Plant Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity Due to Simulated Extinctions of Pollinators and Seed Dispersers in a Tropical Savanna

article

How puzzles are shaping our understanding of biodiversity: A call for more research into biodiversity representation in educational games

scientific article published in 2022

How to measure response diversity

scientific article published in 2023

Imbalance in individual researcher's peer review activities quantified for four British Ecological Society journals, 2003-2010.

scientific article

Impacts of Warming on the Structure and Functioning of Aquatic Communities

article

Including intraspecific variability in functional diversity.

scientific article

Individual-Based Food Webs

scientific article published in 2010

Individual-level trait diversity concepts and indices to comprehensively describe community change in multidimensional trait space

article by Simone Fontana et al published 17 September 2015 in Functional Ecology

Infectious food webs

scientific article published in May 2009

Inferring community assembly processes from macroscopic patterns using dynamic eco-evolutionary models and Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)

scientific article published in 2019

Inferring the temperature dependence of population parameters: the effects of experimental design and inference algorithm

scientific article

Integrating methods that investigate how complementarity influences ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2003

Integrative research efforts at the boundary of biodiversity and global change research

Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities

scientific article published in 2004

Interactions between assembly order and temperature can alter both short- and long-term community composition ⬇️

scientific article

Linking intraspecific trait variation to community abundance dynamics improves ecological predictability by revealing a growth-defence trade-off

scientific article published in 2017

Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

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Long-term effects of plant diversity and composition on soil nematode communities in model grasslands

scientific article

Loss of functionally unique species may gradually undermine ecosystems.

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Loss of predator species, not intermediate consumers, triggers rapid and dramatic extinction cascades

scientific article

Low functional diversity and no redundancy in British avian assemblages

scientific article

Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits.

scientific article

Maximum entropy in ecology

scientific article published in 2010

Mechanisms of temperature-dependent swimming: the importance of physics, physiology and body size in determining protist swimming speed

scientific article published in December 2010

Merging perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2001

Metadata Made Easy: Develop and Use Domain‐Specific Metadata Schemes by following the dmdScheme approach

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

scientific article

Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

scientific article

On the dimensionality of ecological stability

scientific article

Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in 2021

P1-459 A within-host network of human coinfection

Phenotypic responses to temperature in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Predation effects on mean time to extinction under demographic stochasticity

scientific article published on 15 June 2013

Predator Functional Response Changed by Induced Defenses in Prey

article

Predicting the effects of temperature on food web connectance

scientific article

Predictive systems ecology.

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Prey diversity, prey composition, and predator population dynamics in experimental microcosms

scientific article published in September 2000

Reported co-infection deaths are more common in early adulthood and among similar infections.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Seeing Double:

scientific article published in 2011

Simultaneously estimating food web connectance and structure with uncertainty

scientific article published in 2022

Size, foraging, and food web structure

scholarly article

Spatio-temporal trends and trade-offs in ecosystem services: An Earth observation based assessment for Switzerland between 2004 and 2014

article

Species Diversity, Species Extinction, and Ecosystem Function

article

Species loss and the structure and functioning of multitrophic aquatic systems

article

Species richness, environmental fluctuations, and temporal change in total community biomass

article

Spectral mimicry: A method of synthesizing matching time series with different Fourier spectra

article published in 1999

Stability of within-host-parasite communities in a wild mammal system

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Stochastic relations between species richness and the variability of species composition

article

Substratum-dependent responses of ciliate assemblages to temperature: a natural experiment in Icelandic streams

article

Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative ⬇️

article

Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach

scientific article published in June 2013

Temporal scale dependent interactions between multiple environmental disturbances in microcosm ecosystems

scientific article

Testing a biological mechanism of the insurance hypothesis in experimental aquatic communities

scientific article

The Role of Body Size in Complex Food Webs

article by Ute Jacob et al published 2011 in Advances in Ecological Research

The consequences of body size in model microbial ecosystems

The consequences of size dependent foraging for food web topology

article published in 2011

The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology

scientific article published in 2024

The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants

scientific article

The effects of demographic stochasticity and parameter uncertainty on predicting the establishment of introduced species ⬇️

scientific article

The effects of immigration and environmental variability on the persistence of an inferior competitor

scientific article published in July 2007

The impact of environmental variability and species composition on the stability of experimental microbial populations and communities

article

The influence of fire on phylogenetic and functional structure of woody savannas: Moving from species to individuals

article

The interacting effects of temperature and food chain length on trophic abundance and ecosystem function

scientific article published in 2010

The nature and consequences of coinfection in humans ⬇️

scientific article published on June 16, 2011

The practice of prediction: What can ecologists learn from applied, ecology-related fields?

scientific article published in 2017

The reliability of observational approaches for detecting interspecific parasite interactions: comparison with experimental results

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

Trophic downgrading decreases species asynchrony and community stability regardless of climate warming

scientific article published in 2021

Trophically Unique Species Are Vulnerable to Cascading Extinction

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Trophically unique species are vulnerable to cascading extinction.

scientific article

Universal temperature and body-mass scaling of feeding rates

scientific article

Unraveling the interplay of community assembly processes acting on multiple niche axes across spatial scales

scientific article published in October 2014

Valuing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Complex Marine Ecosystem

scholarly article published 2015

Warming and top predator loss drive direct and indirect effects on multiple trophic groups within and across ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 November 2021

Warming and top predator loss drive ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Warming can destabilise predator-prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II:

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Warming can destabilize predator-prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

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