Can heritable traits in a single species affect an entire ecosystem? Recent studies show that
such traits in a common tree have predictable effects on community structure and ecosystem …

Introduced plant populations lose interactions with enemies, mutualists and competitors from
their native ranges, and gain interactions with new species, under new abiotic conditions …

In natural communities, species and their interactions are often organized as nonrandom
networks, showing distinct and repeated complex patterns. A prevalent, but poorly explored …

Ecological theory predicts that a complex community formed by a number of species is
inherently unstable, guiding ecologists to identify what maintains species diversity in nature …

Background Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are becoming increasingly interested in
networks as a framework to study plant–animal mutualisms within their ecological context …

Niche construction theory (NCT) explicitly recognizes environmental modification by
organisms (“niche construction”) and their legacy over time (“ecological inheritance”) to be …

Abstract Background and Aims 'Pollination syndromes' are suites of phenotypic traits
hypothesized to reflect convergent adaptations of flowers for pollination by specific types of …

Floral traits are hypothesized to evolve primarily in response to selection by pollinators.
However, selection can also be mediated by other environmental factors. To understand the …

The structure of mutualistic networks is likely to result from the simultaneous influence of
neutrality and the constraints imposed by complementarity in species phenotypes …

We propose research to fill key gaps in the areas of population and community ecology,
based on a National Science Foundation workshop identifying funding priorities for the next …