Ecological communities are subjected to multiple anthropogenic stressors at both global and local scales that are increasing in number and magnitude. Stressors can interact in complex …
CR Fong, ER Ryznar, LL Smith, P Fong - Journal of Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While trait‐based approaches have been effectively leveraged by plant ecologists to advance our understanding of community responses to major global challenges, such as …
Seaweeds are important primary producers in marine ecosystems and often play keystone and significant structural roles in their communities. After almost a century of research …
In order to assess how emerging science and new tools can be applied to study multiple stressors on a large (ecosystem) scale and to facilitate greater integration of approaches …
The factors regulating soil animal communities are poorly understood. Current theory favors niche complementarity and facilitation over competition as the primary forms of non‐trophic …
Coral reefs are highly productive ecosystems that typically exist in nutrient-poor waters, stimulating considerable research on the sources of nutrients that may support this …
Marine habitat formers such as seaweeds and corals are lynchpins of coastal ecosystems, but their functional diversity and how it varies with scale and context remains poorly studied …
ER Ryznar, P Fong, CR Fong - Journal of Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Functional groups are widely used to reduce complexity and generalize across ecological communities. These models assume that shared traits among species correspond to some …
With marine heat waves increasing in intensity and frequency due to climate change, it is important to understand how thermal disturbances will alter coral reef ecosystems since …