Agriculture and the exploitation of natural resources have transformed tropical mountain
ecosystems across the world, and the consequences of these transformations for biodiversity …

Animal‐mediated seed dispersal is important for sustaining biological diversity in forest
ecosystems, particularly in the tropics. Forest fragmentation, hunting, and selective logging …

Impacts of climate change on individual species are increasingly well documented, but we
lack understanding of how these effects propagate through ecological communities. Here we …

Plant–animal interactions are fundamentally important in ecosystems, but have often been
ignored by studies of climate-change impacts on biodiversity. Here, we present a trait-based …

Research linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been mostly centred on
the influence of species richness on ecosystem functions in small‐scale experiments with …

Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in
evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits …

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem
functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be …

Species-rich tropical communities are expected to be more specialized than their temperate
counterparts [1–3]. Several studies have reported increasing biotic specialization toward the …

The factors determining gradients of biodiversity are a fundamental yet unresolved topic in
ecology. While diversity gradients have been analysed for numerous single taxa, progress …

Changes in land use have resulted in a strong decline in the plant diversity of nutrient-poor
grasslands, but little is known about the combined effects of habitat degradation and …