… Alcantara 2000), with the result that reductions in the numbers of seeds per cluster may
not reduce population growth rate or spread if the number of clusters remains the same (Buckley …

The open‐data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote considerable
progress in ecology and evolution. Open‐data global data bases now exist on animal …

We review key issues, available approaches and analyses to encourage and assist practitioners
to develop sound plans to evaluate the effectiveness of weed biological control agents …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly proposed to support conservation
decision making. However, evidence of SDMs supporting solutions for on‐ground conservation …

… Herbivore exclusion generally leads to reduced ground-level light (<0 on x axis) coupled
with reduced grassland species richness (<0 on y axis). Herbivore effects are consistent across …

Identifying species boundaries within morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species
complexes is often contentious. For the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: …

How ecosystem productivity and species richness are interrelated is one of the most debated
subjects in the history of ecology 1 . Decades of intensive study have yet to discern the …

For more than 30 years, the relationship between net primary productivity and species richness
has generated intense debate in ecology about the processes regulating local diversity. …

Terrestrial ecosystem productivity is widely accepted to be nutrient limited 1. Although nitrogen
(N) is deemed a key determinant of aboveground net primary production (ANPP) 2, 3, the …

Studies of experimental grassland communities 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 have demonstrated that
plant diversity can stabilize productivity through species asynchrony, in which decreases in …