Background: Climate change is affecting food systems globally, with implications for food security, nutrition, and the health of human populations. There are limited data characterizing the current and future consequences ...

This article investigates how organizations deal with drivers and barriers to the adoption of low-carbon operational (LCO) practices and, accordingly, we propose a framework for relationships with stakeholders to guide ...

Ecological succession has been widely studied for more than a century, but the focus has mainly been on plant community dynamics over time. In the last 2 decades there has been a steady increase of research focused on ...

Humans are altering global environment at an unprecedented rate through changes in biodiversity, climate, nitrogen cycle, and land use. To address their effects on ecosystem functioning, experiments most frequently explore ...

Climate forcings determine the episodic occurrence of local climate anomalies that trigger the occurrence of masting events (massive, synchronized and intermittent seed production by perennial plants). This suggests some ...

Assemblage patterns could be primarily generated by two types of drivers: exogenous (such as environmental and climatic factors) and endogenous (interactions such as competition, predation, mutualism or herbivory). The ...