Our planet is changing at paces never observed before. Species extinction is happening at faster rates than ever, greatly exceeding the five mass extinctions in the fossil record …
Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …
A central assumption in most ecological models is that the interactions in a community operate only between pairs of species. However, two species may interactively affect the …
Relating biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural communities has become a paramount challenge as links between trophic complexity and multiple ecosystem functions …
The influence of biotic interactions on microbial community assembly is intensely debated. We hypothesized that keystone taxa, which influence community assembly through strong …
May's stability theory, which holds that large ecosystems can be stable up to a critical level of complexity, a product of the number of resident species and the intensity of their interactions …
The diversity of life and its organization in networks of interacting species has been a long- standing theoretical puzzle for ecologists. Ever since May's provocative paper challenging …
Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic …
Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversities are important facets of biodiversity. Studying them together has improved our understanding of community dynamics, ecosystem …