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Habitat complexity enhances primary productivity on coral reefs
Energy fluxes throughout ecosystems can be predicted by scaling relationships linking metabolic rates with the structural attributes of organisms and habitats. ...
There are about 20 quadrillion ants alive on Earth at any moment — enough that their combined biomass outweighs every wild bird and mammal on the planet combined, even though the often-repeated claim
The 2022 paper that established the modern estimate of how many ants are alive on Earth was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by ...
[2605.30974] Morphological routes to extinction: A mechanistic assessment of habitat loss
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30974: Morphological routes to extinction: A mechanistic assessment of habitat loss
Heterospecifics removing eggs: brood parasites or predators of nest content? - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Many bird species adjust their nest defense behavior according to the type and magnitude of perceived threats. Hosts of brood parasites – species tha
The Last Word On Nothing
This post first ran in 2023 Abstract Many years ago, some birds started breeding on an island. Several thousand of them still do. The world changes around them,...
Correction: Wings over the city: avian and butterfly diversity across a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance - Biodiversity and Conservation
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and re...
Applying harm reduction and implementation principles to urban species conservation management - Biodiversity and Conservation
Private greenspaces adjacent to residential homes represent habitat that could be used to promote the conservation of species and ecosystem health. However
Facilitation in plant communities – special issue editorial - Plant and Soil
In Winter 2021, Katie Barry, Chris Moore and I started chatting about mutualism, facilitation, competition, and the culture of Community Ecology. We met twice a...