Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

Temporal variability of a single population can determine the vulnerability of communities to perturbations

(2016) Robert J. Mrowicki et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resilience, reactivity and variability: A mathematical comparison of ecological stability measures

(2016) J-F. Arnoldi et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Universal resilience patterns in complex networks

(2016) Jianxi Gao et al.   NATURE

Measuring and assessing resilience: broadening understanding through multiple disciplinary perspectives

(2015) Allyson E. Quinlan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Nutrient enrichment alters the consequences of species loss

(2015) Nessa E. O'Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Policy: Define biomass sustainability

(2015) Roeland Bosch et al.   NATURE

Policy: Five priorities for the UN Sustainable Development Goals

(2015) Yonglong Lu et al.   NATURE

Relation between stability and resilience determines the performance of early warning signals under different environmental drivers

(2015) Lei Dai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Testing for effects of climate change on competitive relationships and coexistence between two bird species

(2015) N. C. Stenseth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Get the science right when paying for nature's services

(2015) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Theory, models and biology

(2015) Wenying Shou et al.   eLife

Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction

(2014) Jurriaan M. De Vos et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

(2014) Georgina M. Mace et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

(2014) Yann Hautier et al.   NATURE

On the structural stability of mutualistic systems

(2014) R. P. Rohr et al.   SCIENCE

Whose conservation?

(2014) G. M. Mace   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Reddened seascapes: experimentally induced shifts in 1/fspectra of spatial variability in rocky intertidal assemblages

(2013) Laura Tamburello et al.   ECOLOGY

On the dimensionality of ecological stability

(2013) Ian Donohue et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecological literature, an idea-free distribution

(2013) Samuel M. Scheiner   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks

(2013) Samir Suweis et al.   NATURE

Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse

(2013) A. S. MacDougall et al.   NATURE

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

(2013) Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A Global System for Monitoring Ecosystem Service Change

(2012) Heather Tallis et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Temporal coincidence of environmental stress events modulates predation rates

(2012) Sylvain Pincebourde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

(2012) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental context determines multi-trophic effects of consumer species loss

(2012) Nessa E. O'Connor et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

(2012) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought

(2012) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Nature Climate Change

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

(2011) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Temporal variability within disturbance events regulates their effects on natural communities

(2011) Jorge García Molinos et al.   OECOLOGIA

How frequency and intensity shape diversity-disturbance relationships

(2011) A. D. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

(2011) S. R. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE

Cross-system comparisons elucidate disturbance complexities and generalities

(2011) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   Ecosphere

Interactions among temporal patterns determine the effects of multiple stressors

(2010) Jorge García Molinos et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Analysis of ecological time series with ARMA(p,q) models

(2010) Anthony R. Ives et al.   ECOLOGY

Structural dynamics and robustness of food webs

(2010) Phillip P. A. Staniczenko et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mechanisms contributing to stability in ecosystem function depend on the environmental context

(2010) Emily Grman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity

(2010) E. S. Zavaleta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

(2010) E. Thebault et al.   SCIENCE

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

The more food webs change, the more they stay the same

(2009) K. S. McCann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Perturbations to trophic interactions and the stability of complex food webs

(2009) E. J. O'Gorman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disentangling the Web of Life

(2009) Jordi Bascompte   SCIENCE

Network structural properties mediate the stability of mutualistic communities

(2008) Toshinori Okuyama et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Jason M. Tylianakis et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High-amplitude fluctuations and alternative dynamical states of midges in Lake Myvatn

(2008) Anthony R. Ives et al.   NATURE

Community extinction patterns in coloured environments

(2008) L. Ruokolainen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Floquet theory: a useful tool for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics

(2008) Christopher A. Klausmeier   Theoretical Ecology