Large-Scale Ecology: Model Systems to Global Perspectives

Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK. Guy Woodward is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and Series Editor for Advances in Ecological Research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers in Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change, with a strong emphasis on understanding and predicting how aquatic ecosystems and food webs respond to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stressors, including climate change, chemical pollution, habitat degradation and invasive species. Much of this work covers multiple scales in space and time and also a range of organisational levels - from genes to ecosystems. His research group and ongoing collaborations span the natural and social sciences, reflecting the need for multidisciplinary approaches for addressing the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.

• 1. The Unique Contribution of Rothamsted to Ecological Research at Large Temporal ScalesJ. Storkey, A.J. Macdonald, J.R. Bell, I.M. Clark, A.S. Gregory, N.J. Hawkins, P.R. Hirsch, L.C. Todman and A.P. Whitmore2. How Agricultural Intensification Affects Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesM. Emmerson, M.B. Morales, J.J. Oñate, P. Batáry, F. Berendse, J. Liira, T. Aavik, I. Guerrero, R. Bommarco, S. Eggers, T. Pärt, T. Tscharntke, W. Weisser and J. Bengtsson3. Litter Decomposition as an Indicator of Stream Ecosystem Functioning at Local-to-Continental Scales: Insights from the European RivFunction ProjectE. Chauvet, V. Ferreira, P.S. Giller, B.G. Mckie, S.D. Tiegs, G. Woodward, A. Elosegi, M. Dobson, T. Fleituch, M.A.S. Graça, V. Gulis, S. Hladyz, J.O. Lacoursiere, A. Lecerf, J. Pozo, E. Preda, M. Riipinen, G. Rîsnoveanu, A. Vadineanu, L.B.-M. Vought and M.O. Gessner4. Unraveling the Impacts of Micropollutants in Aquatic Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Interface of Large-Scale Ecology C. Stamm, K. Räsänen, F.J. Burdon, F. Altermatt, J. Jokela, A. Joss, M. Ackermann and R.I.L. Eggen5. The Colne Estuary: A Long-Term Microbial Ecology ObservatoryD.B. Nedwell, G.J.C. Underwood, T.J. McGenity, C. Whitby and A.J. Dumbrell6. Locally Extreme Environments as Natural Long-Term Experiments in EcologyI. Maček, D. Vodnik, H. Pfanz, E. Low-Décarie and A.J. Dumbrell7. Climate-Driven Range Shifts Within Benthic Habitats Across a Marine Biogeographic Transition ZoneN. Mieszkowska, and H.E. Sugden8. Cross-Scale Approaches to Forecasting Biogeographic Responses to Climate ChangeJ.L. Torossian, R.L. Kordas and B. Helmuth9. Shifting Impacts of Climate Change: Long-Term Patterns of Plant Response to Elevated CO2, Drought and Warming Across EcosystemsL.C. Andresen, C. Müller, G. de Dato; J.S. Dukes, B.A. Emmett, M. Estiarte, A. Jentsch; G. Kröel-Dulay; A. Lüscher; S. Niu; J. Peñuelas; P. Reich, S. Reinsch, R. Ogaya, I.K. Schmidt; M.K. Schneider; M. Sternberg, A. Tietema; K. Zhu and M.C. Bilton10. Recovery and Non-Recovery of Freshwater Food Webs Effects of AcidificationC. Gray, A. Hildrew, X. Lu, A. Ma , D. McElroy, D. Monteith, E. O’Gorman, E. Shilland and G. Woodward11. Effective River Restoration in the 21th Century: From Trial and Error to Novel Evidence-Based ApproachesN. Friberg, N.V. Angelopoulos, A.D. Buijse, I.G. Cowx, J. Kail, T.F. Moe, H. Moir H, M.T. O’Hare, P.F.M. Verdonschot and C. Wolter12. Recommendations for the Next Generation of Global Freshwater Biological Monitoring ToolsM.C. Jackson, O.L.F. Weyl, F. Altermatt, I. Durance, N. Friberg, A.J. Dumbrell, J.J. Piggott, S.D. Tiegs, K. Tockner, C.B. Krug, P.W. Leadley, and G. Woodward

Praise for the Series: "Important and innovative contributions to the subject and together have a breadth of approach that means that what they choose to put before their readers is likely to be of unusual interest or significance." --Plant Pathology