Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

The simplest theories often have much merit and many limitations, and, in this vein, the
value of neutral theory (NT) of biodiversity has been the subject of much debate over the …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Ecologists have long sought a way to explain how the remarkable biodiversity observed in
nature is maintained. On the one hand, simple models of interacting competitors cannot …

How the coexistence of many species is maintained is a fundamental and unresolved
question in ecology. Coexistence is a puzzle because we lack a mechanistic understanding …

Environmental heterogeneity is among the most important factors governing community
structure. Besides the widespread evidence supporting positive relationships between …

Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and
marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially …

Understanding the forces sha** ecological communities is crucial to basic science and
conservation. Neutral theory has made considerable progress in explaining static properties …

Life history, the schedule of when and how fast organisms grow, die and reproduce, is a
critical axis along which species differ from each other,,–. In parallel, competition is a …

The growth of complex populations, such as microbial communities, forests, and cities,
occurs over vastly different spatial and temporal scales. Although research in different fields …