
Brooding species Stylophora pistillata. Photo credit Erika Woolsey.
By Erika Woolsey and Sally Keith
Lord Howe Island (31.5°S) is the southernmost coral reef in the world, sitting 1000 km south of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR), and...
By María Alejandra Maglianesi
A primary aim of community ecology is to identify the processes that govern multispecies assemblages across environmental gradients. Ecological networks comprising interacting species of plants and pollinators are particularly...

Figure 1: geoknife output from processing the PRISM dataset (Daly et al. 1994) according to ecoregion. Mean monthly precipitation for the month of May is shown here.
By Jordan Read
Downloading huge datasets for desktop processing can eat network...
Editor's choice article for November 2015
By William Godsoe
Competition occurs when different living things harm one another. It is common in nature. As one example, the grass in my lawn becomes less dense when weeds run amok. But it isn’t clear...

By Yadvinder Mahli
We live in the shadows of lost giants. Until relatively recently almost every major vegetated land area on Earth possessed an abundance of large animals that we now only associate with African game parks. Mesmerizing early art shows how much these...

By Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau
Migration in animals is one of the most spectacular biological phenomena on the planet. Theory predicts that, to evolve, the benefits of migration (in terms of lifetime reproductive success) should outweigh the costs of moving...
by Zsófia Horváth, Csaba F. Vad, Robert Ptacnik
The Seewinkel region lies on the bordering lowland area between eastern Austria and western Hungary. It has sodic soil and several extremely shallow (<1 m) aquatic habitats, so-called soda pans were formed in...
by Julien Cucherousset
EDITOR*S CHOICE OCTOBER 2015
Multiple anthropogenic pressures including the widespread introduction of non-native species threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Non-native species have been reported to induce ecological impacts...
By Constantinos Tsirogiannis and Brody Sandel
Some species assemblages represent a narrow section of the tree of life, while others include a broader swath. This difference can be quantified with phylogenetic diversity measures, which describe the diversity of an...

A Komodo dragon walks on the beach in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. (Photograph by Achmad Ariefiandy).
By Tim Jessop, Deni Purwandana, Achmad Ariefiandy and Claudio Ciofi.
Across islands, animals may experience marked local environmental...
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