Microbial communities are at the heart of all ecosystems, and yet microbial community
behavior in disturbed environments remains difficult to measure and predict. Understanding …

In many regions across the globe, extreme weather events such as storms have increased in
frequency, intensity, and duration due to climate change. Ecological theory predicts that …

The influence of spatial processes on diversity and community dynamics is generally
recognized in ecology and also applied to conservation projects involving forest and …

Biological communities often occur in spatially structured habitats where connectivity directly
affects dispersal and metacommunity processes. Recent theoretical work suggests that …

Community ecology recognises today that local biological communities are not only affected
by local biotic interactions and abiotic environmental conditions, but also by regional …

Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition
and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community …

Aim Spatial dynamics and habitat connectivity affect community composition and diversity in
many ecosystems. For many decades, diversity patterns in riverine ecosystems were thought …

Assembly processes sha** ecological communities can vary over time following variations
of environmental conditions at different scales. Such temporal dynamism is exacerbated by …

Aim Dendritic ecological networks (DEN s), such as river systems, combine features that
challenge the traditional conceptual views and empirical approaches applied to …

There has been a recent rise in the number of experiments investigating the effect of
dispersal on diversity, with many of the predictions for these tests derived from …