Elementary ecology texts tell us that organisms interact in three fundamental ways, generally
given the names competition, predation, and mutualism. The third member has gotten short …

Hermit crabs are anomuran decapod crustaceans that have adapted to occupation of empty
snail shells (and a few other types of cavities). Lack of calcification of the abdominal …

Table of Contents: 1. Metacommunities: a framework for large-scale community
ecology/Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, Nicolas M. Mouquet, Robert D. Holt and Martha …

De stelling dat'goede'wetenschap identiek is aan wetenschap die zichzelf tot doel stelt
volkomen waardevrij te zijn, kan vandaag op nog weinig bijval rekenen. Integendeel, hoe …

Diverse bacterial lineages form beneficial infections with eukaryotic hosts. The origins,
evolution, and breakdown of these mutualisms represent important evolutionary transitions …

Niche Theory is a central framework in ecology based on the recognition that most
interactions between organisms are indirect, mediated by the biotic and abiotic dynamical …

Evolutionary branching occurs when frequency-dependent selection splits a phenotypically
monomorphic population into two distinct phenotypic clusters. A prerequisite for evolutionary …

Experiments assessing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning initially aimed at
establishing whether such relationships exist (eg Naeem et al. 1995; Tilman et al. 1996; …

Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature despite the widely held view that they are unstable
interactions. Models predict that mutualists might often evolve into parasites, can abandon …

Interactions among competition, predation, and disturbance in determining the abundances
of four species of anurans were studied in a factoral experiment using 36 replicated …