▪ 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 …

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 …

Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical
methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Probably no ecologist in the world with even a modicum of field experience would seriously
question the existence of niche differences among competing species on the same trophic …

Mechanistic models of community assembly state that biotic and abiotic filters constrain
species establishment through selection on their functional traits. Predicting this assembly …

Since the publication of the unified neutral theory in 2001, there has been much discussion
of the theory, pro and con. The hypothesis of ecological equivalence is the fundamental yet …

Theories of tropical tree diversity emphasize dispersal limitation as a potential mechanism
for separating species in space and reducing competitive exclusion. We compared the …

We examine the relative importance of processes that underlie plant population abundance
and distribution. Two opposing views dominate the field. One posits that the ability to …

Seed size commonly varies by five to six orders of magnitude among coexisting plant
species, a pattern ecologists have long sought to explain. Because seed size trades off with …