Ecosystem engineering is a ubiquitous process where species influence the physical
environment and thereby structure ecological communities. However, there has been little …

Many cancers resist therapeutic intervention. This is fundamentally related to intratumor
heterogeneity: multiple cell populations, each with different phenotypic signatures, coexist …

Studying the early events that occur after viral infection in humans is difficult unless one
intentionally infects volunteers in a human challenge study. Here, we use data about severe …

The stability of ecological communities has a profound impact on humans, ranging from
individual health influenced by the microbiome to ecosystem services provided by fisheries …

Recent droughts have strongly impacted forest ecosystems and are projected to increase in
frequency, intensity, and duration in the future together with continued warming. While …

Habitat fragmentation poses a significant threat to intact ecosystems and the natural
movements of species. However, research on functional connectivity that reflects the …

Glaciers are experiencing unprecedented global warming, resulting in significant changes to
microbial communities and nutrient transport within glacial ecosystems. However, the …

The stable maintenance of high biological diversity remains a major puzzle in biology. We
propose a new mechanism involving the cyclical use of Competitive, Stress-tolerant, and …

Both metabolism and growth scale sublinearly with body mass across species. Ecosystems
show the same sublinear scaling between production and total biomass, but ecological …

Robert May famously used random matrix theory to predict that large, complex systems
cannot admit stable fixed points. However, this general conclusion is not always supported …