Identifying the mechanisms controlling the temporal dynamics of ecological communities is
key to understand their vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic impacts and to identify …

Diatoms are among the most abundant phytoplankton that inhabit coastal ecosystems,
forming large blooms that fuel coastal food webs. Although diatoms are often large and …

Adding fluctuations to models of resource competition provides one solution to Hutchinson's
paradox. Fundamental to fluctuation dependent mechanisms of coexistence are differential …

Annual phytoplankton succession is a key ecological phenomenon that drives marine
species' life cycles and energy flows within marine ecosystems. Identifying processes that …

Abstract Knowledge on the mechanisms that drive population dynamics and shape
community structure is a key issue in ecology. Using wavelet methods, we analyzed 17‐yr of …

Production of diapausing eggs in many zooplankton species occurs after partial switching
from parthenogenesis to sexual reproduction. Storage effect theory predicts the stable long …

Background The unprecedented influence of human activities on natural ecosystems in the
21st century has resulted in increasingly frequent large-scale changes in ecological …

Many aquatic microbes form colonies, yet little is known about their abundance and fitness
relative to single‐celled taxa. The formation of diatom chains, in particular, has implications …

Environmental variability is an inherent feature of natural systems which complicates
predictions of species interactions. Primarily, the complexity in predicting the response of …

Synchrony is a multifaceted biological phenomenon exhibited at various levels of
organization. Here, we introduce the concept of structural synchrony, defined as the …