The global biodiversity crisis has stimulated decades of research on three themes: species
coexistence, biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (BEF), and biodiversity …

Tackling antibiotic resistance necessitates deep understanding of how resource competition
within and between species modulates the fitness of resistant microbes. Recent advances in …

Understanding long‐term coexistence of numerous competing species is a longstanding
challenge in ecology. Progress requires determining which processes and species …

Over the past century, ecologists have attempted to understand patterns of species diversity
by showing stable coexistence arising from a baseline expectation of competitive exclusion …

Priority effects, where arrival order and initial relative abundance modulate local species
interactions, can exert taxonomic, functional, and evolutionary influences on ecological …

Environmental variability can structure species coexistence by enhancing niche partitioning.
Modern coexistence theory highlights two fluctuation‐dependent temporal coexistence …

Motivated by both analytical tractability and empirical practicality, community ecologists have
long treated the species pair as the fundamental unit of study. This notwithstanding, the …

Natural microbial ecosystems harbor substantial diversity of competing species. Explaining
such diversity is challenging, because in classic theories it is extremely infeasible for a large …

Microbial co-occurrence network analysis is being widely used for data exploration in plant
microbiome research. Still, challenges lie in how well these microbial networks represent …

Modern coexistence theory is increasingly used to explain how differences between
competing species lead to coexistence versus competitive exclusion. Although research …