One of ecology's grand challenges is developing general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

According to the invasion criterion, stable coexistence requires that all species in a
community increase in abundance when rare, which occurs when stabilizing mechanisms …

Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been a
core ecological research topic over the past decades. Although a key hypothesis is that the …

Alien species are continually introduced in most regions of the world, but not all survive and
coexist with the resident native species. Approaches analyzing the functional (or …

Coexistence between plant species is well known to depend on the outcomes of species
interactions within an environmental context. The incorporation of environmental variation …

Growing evidence shows that soil microbes affect plant coexistence in a variety of systems.
However, since these systems vary in the impacts microbes have on plants and in the ways …

Plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) and functional traits are two active but not well theoretically
integrated areas of research. However, PSF and traits are both affected by life‐history …

Although plant–plant interactions (ie competition and facilitation) have long been recognised
as key drivers of plant community composition and dynamics, their global patterns and …

A frequent question in invasion ecology is whether the traits of alien plant species differ from
natives. This question is increasingly addressed at the plant community scale to assess the …

Plant traits can be used to understand a range of ecological processes, including
competition with invasive species. The extent to which native and invasive species are …