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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …