Human-driven changes to landscapes worldwide are 'thinning out' the ecological services supplied by wild birds, eroding the ...

Research collaboration: Functional Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Soils and Agro-Ecosystems (UMR Eco&Sols) is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating ...

In old age, a tighter interlinkage between different domains of functional capacity may indicate a loss of system resilience. When functional capacity domains are tightly interconnected, a disruption ...

Changes in plant communities can have large effects on ecosystem carbon (C) dynamics and long-term C stocks. However, how these effects are mediated by environmental context or vary among ecosystems ...

Having grown up at Bethel Heights, her family’s vineyard in Willamette Valley, it’s unsurprising that wine is in Mimi Casteel’s blood. After cultivating a background in forestry and ecology, a ...

Questions: Two central pathways have been proposed to dictate the relationship between community structure and ecosystem function: the “diversity effect” — trait variation allowing complementary ...

In a new scientific review, a team of 70 scientists warned that climate change affects insects in ways that will 'drastically reduce our ability to build a sustainable future based on healthy, ...