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Multitrophic assembly: a perspective from modern coexistence theory

Ecological communities encompass rich diversity across multiple trophics. While modern coexistence theory has been useful in understanding community assembly, its traditional formalism only allows for the study of assembly within a single trophic …

Soil microbial influences over coexistence in multispecies plant communities in a subtropical forest

1. Soil microbes are known to substantially affect pairwise plant species coexistence across terrestrial ecosystems. However, projecting soil microbes’ effects on plant coexistence dynamics in diverse, multi-species systems remains a pressing …

Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence

Environmental change research is plagued by the curse of dimensionality: the number of environmental drivers and the number of communities potentially at risk are both large. This raises the pressing question if a general understanding of ecological …

Rapid monitoring of ecological persistence

Effective conservation of ecological communities requires accurate and up-to-date information about whether species are persisting or declining to extinction. The persistence of ecological communities is largely supported by its structured …

Reconceptualizing beta diversity: a hypervolume geometric approach

Beta diversity---the variation among community compositions in a region---is a fundamental indicator of biodiversity. Despite a diverse set of measures to quantify beta diversity, most measures have posited that beta diversity is maximized when each …