Ecology in the Sixth Mass Extinction Collection

Earth is experiencing anthropogenic biodiversity loss that puts it in the early stages of an extinction event comparable to those that have occurred only five times before in the past 540 million years. While loss of biota is important, individual species don’t exist in a vacuum—they participate in a web of interactions within an ecosystem, and these interactions are expected to disappear before the species that rely on them do. Explore this collection of papers from Annals of the ESA that take a look at rare biotic interactions and provide fresh perspectives on the study of species interactions.