The global redistribution of our planets’ species is widely recognised as a fingerprint of climate change, however, the mechanisms that underpin such range shifts are poorly understood. Additionally, the pervasiveness of range shifts, from poles to the equator, and depths of...
An adult American Dipper gathers aquatic invertebrate to feed its’ nearby nest on Barnes Creek, Washington, USA. Photo: Christopher Tonra
By Christopher Tonra
Salmon have enormous impacts on the ecosystems they inhabit, particularly riverine systems...
By Kevin Cazelles, Nicolas Mouquet, David Mouillot and Dominique Gravel
Debates are going on the extent to which ecological interactions spread over spatial scales. The absence of a clear answer to this particular problem casts doubts on the very popular Species...
EDITOR'S CHOICE JANUARY
By Heather R. Cunningham
Does the relative strength of the abiotic and biotic factors limiting species distributions differ at poleward and equatorward boundaries?
It is well-known that...
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...
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