Models describing the biotic drivers that create and maintain biological diversity within
trophic levels have focused primarily on negative interactions (ie competition), leaving …

The importance of positive interactions is increasingly acknowledged in contemporary
ecology. Most research has focused on direct positive effects of one species on another …

In multiply invaded ecosystems, introduced species should interact with each other as well
as with native species. Invader–invader interactions may affect the success of further …

Anthropogenic fire is a form of ecosystem engineering that creates greater landscape
patchiness at small spatial scales: such rescaling of patch diversity through mosaic burning …

Chance per se plays a key role in ecology and evolution, eg, genetic mutation, resource
spatiotemporal unpredictability. In community ecology, chance is recognized as a key factor …

Competition among conspecifics of the same cohort has been traditionally thought to be a
main process driving population dynamics. In this classical view, however, the role of …

Virtually nothing in nature is uniform. Observed at the right scale, most entities are clustered
rather than evenly distributed, spatially and temporally, and this applies across domains …

Building on systems theory and its applications in tourism management, we introduce the
natural science evolutionary 'endosymbiosis theory'to interpret the inter-dependencies of …

The utilisation of the ecospace and the change in diversity through time has been suggested
to be due to the effect of niche partitioning, as a global long-term pattern in the fossil record …

Studies of conservation in small scale societies typically portray indigenous peoples as
either sustainably managing resources, or forsaking long-term sustainability for short-term …