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    Conversion of rainforest to plantations in Sumatra leads to higher energetic losses in animal food webs aboveground than belowground, with the belowground energy being reallocated from diverse arthropod communities to invasive earthworms.

    • Anton M. Potapov
    • , Jochen Drescher
    •  & Stefan Scheu

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    Whole-ecosystem manipulations of Caribbean islands occupied by brown anoles, involving the addition of competitors (green anoles) and/or top predators (curly-tailed lizards), demonstrate that predator introductions can alter the ecological niches and destabilize the coexistence of competing prey species.

    • Robert M. Pringle
    • , Tyler R. Kartzinel
    •  & Rowan D. H. Barrett

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    An ambitious study has used more than 10,000 datasets to examine how the phenological characteristics—such as the timing of reproduction—of various taxa alter in response to climate change, and suggests that differing levels of climate sensitivity could lead to the desynchronization of seasonal events over time.

    • Stephen J. Thackeray
    • , Peter A. Henrys
    •  & Sarah Wanless

  • Letter |

    Global reef fish diversity is studied with metrics incorporating species abundances and functional traits; these identify diversity hotspots corresponding to the diversity of functional traits amongst individuals in the community, and greater evenness in the abundance of reef fishes at higher latitudes, findings that contrast with patterns reported previously using traditional richness-based methods.

    • Rick D. Stuart-Smith
    • , Amanda E. Bates
    •  & Graham J. Edgar

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    Consumption rates vary substantially between consumers searching in three dimensions (for example, arboreal and pelagic zones), with consumption rates scaling superlinearly with consumer body mass, and those searching in two dimensions (for example, terrestrial and benthic zones), with consumption rates scaling sublinearly with consumer body mass.

    • Samraat Pawar
    • , Anthony I. Dell
    •  & Van M. Savage

  • Letter |

    The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function are usually studied within trophic levels. These authors conduct a large experiment across trophic levels to show how manipulations of plant diversity affect function in different groups. The effects are consistent across groups, but are stronger at adjacent trophic levels and in above-ground rather than below-ground groups.

    • Christoph Scherber
    • , Nico Eisenhauer
    •  & Teja Tscharntke

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