Fear begets function in the ‘brown’ world of detrital food webs

Predatory beetles facilitate plant growth by driving earthworms to lower soil layers

(2013) Chuan Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Fear of Predation Slows Plant-Litter Decomposition

(2012) D. Hawlena et al.   SCIENCE

Landscape of fear influences the relative importance of consumptive and nonconsumptive predator effects

(2011) Catherine M. Matassa et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and ecosystem function of tropical forest dung beetles under contrasting logging regimes

(2010) Eleanor M. Slade et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A brown-world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: effects of predator interactions and warming

(2010) Xinwei Wu et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Organismal traits are more important than environment for species interactions in the intertidal zone

(2010) Spencer A. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY

Co-declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade

(2009) E. Nichols et al.   OIKOS

Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

(2009) Julia Reiss et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION