Species richness increases with energy availability, yet there is little consensus as to the
exact processes driving this species–energy relationship. The most straightforward …

Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology's oldest and most universal
laws–every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

A key feature of life's diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.
Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare …

The study of animal foraging behaviour is of practical ecological importance, and
exemplifies the wider scientific problem of optimizing search strategies. Lévy flights are …

Power‐law frequency distributions characterize a wide array of natural phenomena. In
ecology, biology, and many physical and social sciences, the exponents of these power …

Aim In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the
distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power‐law …

Hubbell's neutral theory of biodiversity has challenged the classic niche-based view of
ecological community structure. Although there have been many attempts to falsify Hubbell's …

The simplest theories often have much merit and many limitations, and, in this vein, the
value of neutral theory (NT) of biodiversity has been the subject of much debate over the …

Background Plants selectively attract particular soil microorganisms, in particular consumers
of root-excreted compounds. It is unclear to what extent cultivar type and/or growth stage …

It has recently become apparent that the diversity of microbial life extends far below the
species level to the finest scales of genetic differences. Remarkably, extensive fine-scale …