Advances in next-generation sequencing have enabled the widespread measurement of
microbiome composition across systems and over the course of microbiome assembly …

The order and timing of species immigration during community assembly can affect species
abundances at multiple spatial scales. Known as priority effects, these effects cause …

Recent experiments, mainly in terrestrial environments, have provided evidence of the
functional importance of biodiversity to ecosystem processes and properties. Compared to …

The impact of regional factors (such as speciation or dispersal) on the species richness in
local communities (SL) has received increasing attention. A prominent method to infer the …

Although species diversity is often correlated with ecosystem size in a consistent manner,
mechanistic explanations of when and why diversity is related to size remain elusive. Rarely …

Ecology is more quantitative and theory-driven than ever before, and A Primer of Ecology
with R combines an introduction to the major theoretical concepts in general ecology with a …

Several recent studies suggest that community composition can take on alternate,
apparently stable, states. For the most part, these studies are observational in nature and …

Compositional multistability is widely observed in multispecies ecological communities.
Since differences in community composition often lead to differences in community function …

Experimental evidence to evaluate alternate conservation policies for harvested populations
is currently meager. We used populations of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila growing in …

Summary 1 Theory predicts that communities comprising many species connected randomly
by strong interactions are unlikely to exhibit stable, feasible equilibria (ie positive equilibria …