The global biodiversity crisis concerns not only unprecedented loss of species within
communities, but also related consequences for ecosystem function. Community ecology focuses …

Global change has created a severe biodiversity crisis. Species are driven extinct at an
increasing rate, and this has the potential to cause further coextinction cascades. The rate and …

… Stouffer and Dame, working as a team bring unique expertise to the book. Dr. Stouffer has
been active in nonlinear constitutive modeling of materials for 25 years at the University of …

For beginners : This review tries to explain percolation through the cluster properties; it can
also be used as an introduction to critical phenomena at other phase transitions for readers …

The fascicle material properties in bone-fascicle-bone units were determined for the anterior
and posterior cruciate ligaments (ACL, PCL), the lateral collateral ligament (LCL) and the …

It has recently been noted that empirical food webs are significantly compartmentalized; that
is, subsets of species exist that interact more frequently among themselves than with other …

Synaptic loss is the cardinal feature linking neuropathology to cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s
disease (AD). However, the mechanism of synaptic damage remains incompletely …

1. Understanding the structure of ecological networks is a crucial task for interpreting community
and ecosystem responses to global change. 2. Despite the recent interest in this subject…

… Ideally, the data would specify which events belong to the same active intervals—the active
interval configuration C—so that we could estimate the distributions p d (t), p w (t), and p(N a )…

Community ecology is tasked with the considerable challenge of predicting the structure,
and properties, of emerging ecosystems. It requires the ability to understand how and why …