Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Fire is a global driver of carbon storage and converts a substantial proportion of plant biomass
to black carbon (for example, charcoal), which remains in the soil for thousands of years. …

The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of
life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit …

Until recently, large apex consumers were ubiquitous across the globe and had been for
millions of years. The loss of these animals may be humankind’s most pervasive influence on …

All terrestrial ecosystems consist of aboveground and belowground components that interact
to influence community- and ecosystem-level processes and properties. Here we show …

Worldwide decomposition rates depend both on climate and the legacy of plant functional
traits as litter quality. To quantify the degree to which functional differentiation among species …

Study of the impacts of biological invasions, a pervasive component of global change, has
generated remarkable understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of the spread of …

The main drivers of global environmental change (CO 2 enrichment, nitrogen deposition,
climate, biotic invasions and land use) cause extinctions and alter species distributions, and …

… David Wardle integrates a vast body of literature from numerous … a tremendous range of
examples, Wardle shows that the key … In this book, David Wardle shows that he is qualified by …

Although spatial variability in distributions of soil organisms is generally regarded as random
noise, this variability often has a predictable spatial structure. Recent studies have provided …