Guest post by Maika Seki, MEnvSci Candidate in  the Professional Masters of Environmental Science program at the University of Toronto-Scarb...

For the first time since 2008 I didn’t make it to ESA, and instead I get to attend my first EcoSummit, here in Montpellier. Participants rep...

This is a guest post from Sarah   Hasnain , currently a PhD student in ecology at Queen's University. Sarah did her MSc...

Stefano Allesina & Si Tang. 2012. Stability criteria for complex ecosystems. Nature 483, 205–208 (08 March 2012). doi:10.1038/nature10...

Twenty years of research has repeatedly shown that communities with greater diversity result higher functioning -namely greater production o...

As ecological systems are altered with cascading changes in diversity, the oft-asked question is: does diversity matter for ecosystem functi...

Understanding how species coexist has been the raison d'etre for many ecologists over the past 100 years. The quest to understand and ex...

You have a much greater chance of getting sick from a tick bite today than you did 30 years ago. But a new tool might allow researchers to b...

It is a truism to say that ecological communities are diverse. They often contain dozens or hundreds or thousands of species that represent ...