Invasions by alien plants provide a unique opportunity to examine competitive interactions
among plants. While resource competition has long been regarded as a major mechanism …

Most species have one or more natural enemies, eg, predators, parasites, pathogens, and
herbivores, among others. These species in turn typically attack multiple victim species. This …

Community ecology is tasked with the considerable challenge of predicting the structure,
and properties, of emerging ecosystems. It requires the ability to understand how and why …

A technique for using patch giving up densities to investigate habitat preferences, predation
risk, and interspecific competitive relationships is theoretically analyzed and empirically …

Herbivores are taxonomically and ecologically diverse, ranging in size from microscopic
zooplankton to the largest of land vertebrates. Aquatic grazers include zooplankton (28 …

When multiple victim species (eg prey, host) are attacked by one or more shared enemy
species (eg predator, pathogen), the potential exists for apparent competition between victim …

Ecological research and the way that ecologists use statistics continues to change rapidly.
This second edition of the best-selling Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments leads …

Very few ecological studies have attempted to fully test the integrative role of abiotic and
biotic factors in interspecific interactions. There is little if any dispute about the value of such …

Because mechanistic models of interspecific interactions are often complex, one should
deliberately seek simple unifying principles that transcend system-specific details. Earlier …

To determine the patterns of occurrence and importance of indirect effects relative to direct
effects in natural communities, I analyzed experimentally based studies from 23 rocky …