By integrating a wide range of experimental, comparative, and theoretical approaches,
ecologists are starting to gain a detailed understanding of the long-term dynamics of …

▪ Abstract Because it lays the template from which communities develop, the pattern of
dispersed seed is commonly believed to influence community structure. To test the validity of …

Impacts of climate change on individual species are increasingly well documented, but we
lack understanding of how these effects propagate through ecological communities. Here …

The response of microbial communities to long-term environmental change is poorly
understood. Here, we study bacterioplankton communities in a unique system of coastal …

Ecologists interested in seed size have generally contrasted functional groups of plants but,
recently, some have focussed on explaining the large range of seed size found within a …

Comparative studies investigating relationships between plant traits and species rarity and
commonness were surveyed to establish whether global patterns have emerged that would …

Understanding the boundaries of species' ranges and the variations in population dynamics
from the centre to margin of a species' range is critical. This study simulated spatial‐temporal …

Although an interspecific trade-off between competitive and colonizing ability can permit
multispecies coexistence, whether this mechanism controls the structure of natural systems …

Aim What factors may affect species range sizes remains a central question in ecology and
biogeography. Particularly, whether and how species richness may regulate average …

Home ranges are central to understanding habitat diversity, effects of fragmentation and
conservation. The distance that an organism moves yields information on life history …