Contents of this post originally appeared on the Applied Ecologist, but with expanded thoughts here. Five years ago I spent my sab...

Like the blind men and the elephant, perspective drives understanding in ecology. The temporal and spatial scale of analysis (let alone the...

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is so frequently discussed in the ecological literature that it has its own ...

The question of the value of biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) experiments—their results, their relevancy—has become a heated one in the...

Jae R. Pasari, Taal Levi, Erika S. Zavaleta, and David Tilman. 2013. Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality. PN...

Pieter T. J. Johnson, Daniel L. Preston, Jason T. Hoverman, and Bryan E. LaFonte. 2013. Host and parasite diversity jointly control disease...

Different subfields of ecology have a propensity to remain remarkably isolated – researchers in aquatic systems independently develop hypoth...

*note: this text was adapted from an Editor's Choice I wrote for the Journal of Applied Ecology . In this era of species loss and habit...

It’s ironic that during the International Year of Biodiversity, the US is experiencing an environmental disaster on a massive scale. Unfortu...

Variation in the strength of diversity effects among experimental studies raise the question when and where consequences of diversity loss i...