Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

William J. Sutherland, Robert P. Freckleton, H. Charles J. Godfray, Steven R. Beissinger, Tim Benton, Duncan D. Cameron, Yohay Carmel, David A. Coomes, Tim Coulson, Mark C. Emmerson, Rosemary S. Hails, Graeme C. Hays, Dave J. Hodgson, Michael J. Hutchings, David Johnson, Julia P. G. Jones, Matt J. Keeling, Hanna Kokko, William E. Kunin, Xavier Lambin, Owen T. Lewis, Yadvinder Malhi, Nova Mieszkowska, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Ken Norris, Albert B. Phillimore, Drew W. Purves, Jane M. Reid, Daniel C. Reuman, Ken Thompson, Justin M. J. Travis, Lindsay A. Turnbull, David A. Wardle and Thorsten Wiegand Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK; Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK; Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94710-3114, USA; Global Food Security Programme, University of Leeds, c/o IICB, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK; Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Techion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Forest Conservation and Ecology Group, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB1 3EA, UK; Department of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK; School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK; CEH Wallingford, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BB, UK; Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA1 8PP, UK; Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ, UK; School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 9QG, UK; Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB14 3UU, UK; School of Environment, Natural Resources & Geography, Thoday Building, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2UW, UK; School of Life Sciences & Maths Institute University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; Division of Ecology, Evolution and Genetics, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0100, Australia; School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS1 9JT, UK; Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK; Marine Biological Association of the UK, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK; Department of Ecology and Evolution, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berks, SL5 7PY, UK; Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading, Reading, PO Box 137, RG6 6AR, UK; Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK; Computational Ecology and Environmental Science group, Microsoft Research, 7 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge, CB3 0FP, UK; Rockefeller University, 1130 York Ave, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Faculty of Forestry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S901-83 Ume a, Sweden; and Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Permoserstr 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany