Linking the structure of communities to ecosystem functioning has been a perennial challenge in ecology. Studies on ecosystem function are traditionally focused on changes in species composition.

Scientists reviewing 85 million years of fish fossil records say that the basic structure of the ocean ecosystem – the ratio of bony fish compared to elasmobranchs such as sharks, skates, and rays – ...

In November 2017, the publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution of “100 articles every ecologist should read,” by Franck Courchamp and Corey JA Bradshaw, stirred the ecological community. The paper ...

Plants may have exerted greater influence on our terrestrial ecosystems than the megaherbivores that used to roam our landscapes, according to new research. Plants may have exerted greater influence ...