The last 15 years has seen parallel surges of interest in two research areas that have rarely
intersected: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF), and multispecies predator–prey …

1 Designs for greenhouse studies of interactions between plants are reviewed and
recommendations for their use are provided. 2 Papers published over a 10‐year period …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

This completely revised, fourth edition of Introduction to Plant Population Biology continues
the approach taken by its highly successful predecessors. Ecological and genetic principles …

Invasive plants often appear to be more competitive than native species, but there have
been few tests of this hypothesis. We reviewed published pair‐wise experiments between …

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 …

(1) The effects of shoot and root competition in twenty-three studies including additive and
replacement techniques, radial and linear layouts, a variety of methods of partitioning and a …

1 Mathematical indices, formed by combining several primary measures, can help
researchers summarize, interpret and display results from plant competition experiments …

Plant diversity has been shown to increase community biomass in experimental
communities, but the mechanisms resulting in such positive biodiversity effects have …

To investigate how plant diversity affects ecosystem‐level processes such as primary
production and nutrient cycling, I established an experimental plant diversity gradient in …