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...

Williams, L. J., et al. 2017. Spatial complementarity in tree crowns explains overyielding in species mixtures. - Nature Ecology & Evolu...

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses. 2016. Elisabeth J. Forrestel, Michael J. Donoghue,  Erika J. Edwar...

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

  Green roofs are now a mainstay of urban green infrastructure and a tool to promote sustainable urban development. A number of municipalit...

I've seen a number of articles recently that explore in different way the intersection of environment and ecology, conservation and huma...

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

Sara Lindsay Jackrel and J. Timothy Wootton. 2013. Local adaptation of stream communities to intraspecific variation in a terrestrial ecosys...

There's been some discussion going around ecolog about an article telling the ecological story of Ascension Island. I should note that ...

Cadotte, M. W. 2013. Experimental evidence that evolutionarily diverse assemblages result in higher productivity. Proceedings of the Nation...