Climate change and land‐use change are two major drivers of biome shifts causing habitat and biodiversity loss. What is missing is a continental‐scale future projection of the estimated relative impacts of both drivers on biome shifts over the course of this century. Here, we provide such a projection for the biodiverse region of Latin America under four socio‐economic development scenarios. We find that across all scenarios 5...

Functional diversity is critical for ecosystem dynamics, stability and productivity. However, dynamic global vegetation models ( DGVM s) which are increasingly used to simulate ecosystem functions under global change, condense functional diversity to plant functional types ( PFT s) with constant parameters. Here, we develop an individual‐ and trait‐based version of the DGVM LPJ mL (Lund‐Potsdam‐Jena managed Land) called LPJ mL...

Mechanistic understanding of consumer‐resource dynamics is critical to predicting the effects of global change on ecosystem structure, function and services. Such understanding is severely limited by mechanistic models’ inability to reproduce the dynamics of multiple populations interacting in the field. We surpass this limitation here by extending general consumer‐resource network theory to the complex dynamics of a specific...

Ecology Letters (2012) 15 : 291–300 Abstract Organisms eating each other are only one of many types of well documented and important interactions among species. Other such types include habitat modification, predator interference and facilitation. However, ecological network research has been typically limited to either pure food webs or to networks of only a few (