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Soil protists play a key role in driving ecological functions through predation and parasitism. However, little is known about how nitrogen (N) deposi...

Invasions by alien plants into unspoiled ecosystems are a cause for concern because the pristine systems are important stores of biodiversity. Indeed,...

A large proportion of the world's land surface is extensively managed for livestock production. In areas where livestock systems are becoming more int...

Understanding the impacts of invasive species on natural ecosystems is an important component of developing management strategies. Habitat-forming inv...

Evidence indicating that ecological communities show delayed responses to environmental change has raised the need to better understand the effects of...

Ecological theories suggest that higher plant genetic diversity can increase productivity in natural ecosystems. So far, varietal mixtures, that is, t...

In southwestern US forests, the combined impact of climate change and increased fuel loads due to more than a century of human-caused fire exclusion i...

The restoration of diverse self-sustaining ecosystems requires re-establishment of functional interactions among species. For plant communities, polli...

In this work, we hypothesized that in urban areas with reduced pollution levels, local climatic conditions can be an important driver of lichen divers...

Forest recovery following management interventions is important to maintain ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services. It remains,...