Priority effects refer to the order or timing of species arrival, including how species that arrive
early at a site either positively or negatively affect establishment, growth, or reproduction of …

During the past 100 years, studies spanning thousands of taxa across almost all biomes
have demonstrated that competition has powerful negative effects on the performance of …

Ecologists are increasingly interested in predicting how intraspecific variation and changing
trait values impact species interactions and community composition. For many traits, much of …

Abstract Theory suggests that intraspecific trait variability may promote species coexistence
when competitively inferior species have higher intraspecific trait variability than their …

The impact of saltwater intrusion on coastal forests and farmland is typically understood as
sea-level-driven inundation of a static terrestrial landscape, where ecosystems neither adapt …

A fundamental assumption of coexistence theory is that competition inevitably decreases
species diversity. Consequently, in the quest to understand the ecological regulators of …

Indirect interactions occur when the effect of one species on another is mediated by a third
species. These interactions occur in most multi‐species assemblages and are diverse in …

Facilitation studies focus primarily on plants often neglecting the extended effects that
cascade through ecological networks. Plants interact with other organisms through …

Microbial communities primarily consist of multiple species that affect one another's fitness
both directly and indirectly. This study showed that the cocultivation of Paenibacillus …

Understory plants are important components of forest ecosystems and play a crucial role in
regulating community structures, function realization, and community succession. However …