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Exotic plants accumulate and share herbivores yet dominate communities via rapid growth

It is unclear whether plant-herbivore interactions systematically favour exotic plant species. Here the authors investigate plant-herbivore and plant-soil biota interactions in experimental mesocosm communities, finding that exotic plants dominate community biomass despite accumulating more invertebrate herbivores.

Warwick J. Allen
Lauren P. Waller
Jason M. Tylianakis
ResearchOpen Access11 May 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-12
Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions

Vertebrate frugivores play important ecological roles. Here, the authors analyse a global dataset on plants and birds and find that plant-frugivore networks are more dissimilar, yet structurally consistent, across ecoregion and biome boundaries.

Lucas P. Martins
Daniel B. Stouffer
Jason M. Tylianakis
ResearchOpen Access14 Nov 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-13
Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries

Species sharing a common enemy such as a parasitoid or predator can indirectly affect one another. Here, Frost et al. use quantitative food-web data from communities of caterpillar hosts to show experimentally that apparent competition is important in predicting food-web structure across habitats.

Carol M. Frost
Guadalupe Peralta
Jason M. Tylianakis
ResearchOpen Access31 Aug 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Species traits and landscape structure can drive scale-dependent propagation of effects in ecosystems

Ecological effects, such as disturbances, have a spatial dimension, but what influences their spatial propagation is not fully understood. Here, the authors find generalist and widespread species are key to propagating effects spatially, mediated by landscape characteristics and species provenance.

David García-Callejas
Sandra Lavorel
Jason M. Tylianakis
ResearchOpen Access27 Aug 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-11
Multi-habitat landscapes are more diverse and stable with improved function

Species interaction data, a field experiment and modelling of plant–insect communities show that landscapes with more habitat types support more even species, more complementary interactions, are more consistently robust to species loss, and confer greater pollination function.

Talya D. Hackett
Alix M. C. Sauve
Jane Memmott
ResearchOpen Access21 Aug 2024
Nature

Volume: 633, P: 114-119
Publisher Correction: Distance to range edge determines sensitivity to deforestation

C. David L. Orme
Sarah Mayor
Cristina Banks-Leite
Amendments and Corrections11 Jun 2019
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 3, P: 1131
The patchwork of evolutionary landscapes

A large-scale field experiment in a prey–enemy system demonstrates that spatial and temporal variation in population dynamics can both drive and respond to evolution. This is a crucial step in scaling up our understanding of how ecology and evolution are intertwined in mosaic landscapes.

Jason M. Tylianakis
Lais F. Maia
News & Views14 Apr 2020
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 4, P: 672-673
Habitat modification alters the structure of tropical host–parasitoid food webs

This study provides a replicated, quantitative demonstration of the consequences of human-mediated habitat modification for networks of feeding interactions among species in tropical host–parasitoid food webs.

Jason M. Tylianakis
Teja Tscharntke
Owen T. Lewis
Research11 Jan 2007
Nature

Volume: 445, P: 202-205
Predicting the effect of habitat modification on networks of interacting species

In a changing world, the ability to predict the impact of environmental change on ecological communities is essential. Here, the authors show that by separating species abundances from interaction preferences, they can predict the effects of habitat modification on the structure of weighted species interaction networks, even with limited data.

Phillip P. A. Staniczenko
Owen T. Lewis
Felix Reed-Tsochas
ResearchOpen Access06 Oct 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

Adriana De Palma
Stefan Abrahamczyk
Andy Purvis
ResearchOpen Access11 Aug 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-14
International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

Jeffrey A. Harvey
Robin Heinen
Hans de Kroon
Correspondence06 Jan 2020
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 4, P: 174-176
Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
Kate A. Brauman
Noelia Zafra-Calvo
Correspondence25 Nov 2021
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 6, P: 118-119
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy

Communities want to determine their own climate change adaptation strategies, and scientists and decision-makers should listen to them — both the equity and efficacy of climate change adaptation depend on it. We outline key lessons researchers and development actors can take to support communities and learn from them.

Anne C. Pisor
Xavier Basurto
James Holland Jones
Comments & Opinion28 Feb 2022
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 12, P: 213-215
Distance to range edge determines sensitivity to deforestation

Analysing responses of 378 bird species to deforestation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, the authors show that sensitivity to habitat loss is dependent on where a population is located within its range.

C. David L. Orme
Sarah Mayor
Cristina Banks-Leite
Research06 May 2019
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 3, P: 886-891
Above and belowground community strategies respond to different global change drivers

Karen L. Adair
Stinus Lindgreen
Jason M. Tylianakis
ResearchOpen Access22 Feb 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-11

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