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Intact but empty forests? Patterns of hunting induced mammal defaunation in the tropics
Tropical forests are increasingly degraded by industrial logging, urbanization, agriculture, and infrastructure, with only 20% of the remaining area considered intact. However, this figure does not...
Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks
The honeybee Apis mellifera is the primary managed species worldwide for both crop pollination and honey production. Owing to beekeeping activity, its high relative abundance potentially affects...
The importance of bee diversity for crop pollination
Ecologists have shown through hundreds of experiments that ecological communities with more species produce higher levels of essential ecosystem functions such as biomass production, nutrient...
How will changes in ecosystem functioning affect the demography of animal populations
Temporal variability in primary productivity can change habitat quality for consumer species by affecting the energy levels available as food resources. However, it remains unclear how...
Global meta-analysis of the impacts of terrestrial invertebrate invaders on species, communities and ecosystems
Terrestrial invertebrates comprise a large proportion of alien species worldwide, yet a quantitative global synthesis of their effects on native species and ecosystems has not been explored. In...