We review and synthesize recent developments in the study of the spread of invasive species,
emphasizing both empirical and theoretical approaches. Recent theoretical work has …

Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

The ecosystem engineering concept focuses on how organisms physically change the
abiotic environment and how this feeds back to the biota. While the concept was formally …

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The Construction of Nationhood, first published in 1997, is a thorough re-analysis of both
nationalism and nations. In particular it challenges the current'modernist'orthodoxies of such …

Ecological models show that complexity usually destabilizes food webs 1 , 2 , predicting that
food webs should not amass the large numbers of interacting species that are in fact found …

BACKGROUND Much of ecological theory and the understanding of ecological systems has
been based on the idea that the observed states and dynamics of ecological systems can …

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The clinical conditions that are associated with disturbances of the acid-base balance of the
blood are familiar to many physicians. Some of these, such as diabetic coma and nephritis, …

The deteriorating health of the world’s coral reefs threatens global biodiversity, ecosystem
function, and the livelihoods of millions of people living in tropical coastal regions 1 . Reefs in …