The order and timing of species immigration during community assembly can affect species
abundances at multiple spatial scales. Known as priority effects, these effects cause …

The realization that complex systems such as ecological communities can collapse or shift
regimes suddenly and without rapid external forcing poses a serious challenge to our …

Modern coexistence theory (MCT) is one of the leading methods to understand species
coexistence. It uses invasion growth rates—the average, per‐capita growth rate of a rare …

Ecological assembly is a fundamental and yet poorly understood process. Three main
obstacles hinder the development of a theory of assembly, and when these issues are …

Predicting the composition and diversity of communities is a central goal in ecology. While
community assembly is considered hard to predict, laboratory microcosms often follow a …

Community assembly models, usually constructed for food webs, are an important
component of our understanding of how ecological communities are formed. However …

The history of species immigration can dictate how species interact in local communities,
thereby causing historical contingency in community assembly. Since immigration history is …

A central goal of ecological research has been to understand the limits on the maximum
number of species that can coexist under given constraints. However, we know little about …

Ecological assembly—the process of ecological community formation through species
introductions—has recently seen exciting theoretical advancements across dynamical …

The rock–paper–scissors game–which is characterized by three strategies R, P, S, satisfying
the non-transitive relations S excludes P, P excludes R, and R excludes S–serves as a …