Regulation of interacting species and maintenance of biodiversity in ecological communities
Understanding spatial patterns of relative abundance and species richness, and the factors that promote or impair local population persistence and species coexistence in ecosystems, especially among the hyper diverse insects and invertebrates
Conceptual research at large scales as well as local phenomena in 'natural' and managed ecosystem
Species interactions constrain community diversity, function, and invasion
Roles of history, evolution, genetic structure, and biotic interactions in assembling diverse, functional communities
Variation in food web patterns across patches, landscapes, ecosystems, and over time, and their resilience of these structures to perturbation
Use of knowledge of ecology to predict and ameliorate the manifold impacts of humanity
Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Rapid Environmental Change
Synthesis of Trophic Interactions and Cascades across Ecosystems
Nematodes, Microbes, and the Little Things That Run the World beneath our Feet