Addressing context dependence in ecology

JA Catford, JRU Wilson, P Pyšek, PE Hulme… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Context dependence is widely invoked to explain disparate results in ecology. It arises when
the magnitude or sign of a relationship varies due to the conditions under which it is …

Patterns and processes of microbial community assembly

DR Nemergut, SK Schmidt, T Fukami… - Microbiology and …, 2013‏ - journals.asm.org
Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions

AS Mori, LE Dee, A Gonzalez, H Ohashi… - Nature Climate …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The global impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change are interlinked, but the feedbacks
between them are rarely assessed. Areas with greater tree diversity tend to be more …

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

JB Grace, TM Anderson, EW Seabloom, ET Borer… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
How ecosystem productivity and species richness are interrelated is one of the most
debated subjects in the history of ecology. Decades of intensive study have yet to discern …

The more‐individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity–diversity relationship

D Storch, E Bohdalková, J Okie - Ecology letters, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species richness increases with energy availability, yet there is little consensus as to the
exact processes driving this species–energy relationship. The most straightforward …

Interactive effects of climate and land use on pollinator diversity differ among taxa and scales

C Ganuza, S Redlich, J Uhler, C Tobisch… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Changes in climate and land use are major threats to pollinating insects, an essential
functional group. Here, we unravel the largely unknown interactive effects of both threats on …

Embracing scale‐dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

JM Chase, BJ McGill, DJ McGlinn, F May… - Ecology …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Because biodiversity is multidimensional and scale‐dependent, it is challenging to estimate
its change. However, it is unclear (1) how much scale‐dependence matters for empirical …

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

JM Chase, JA Myers - … transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2011‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deterministic theories in community ecology suggest that local, niche-based processes,
such as environmental filtering, biotic interactions and interspecific trade-offs largely …

The effect of slope aspect on vegetation attributes in a mountainous dry valley, Southwest China

J Yang, YA El-Kassaby, W Guan - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Slope aspect plays a critical role in influencing vegetation pattern in semiarid area. The dry
valleys of the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwestern China, are striking geographical …

Soil fungal diversity in natural grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with plant diversity and productivity

T Yang, JM Adams, YU Shi, J He, X **g… - New …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have revealed inconsistent correlations between fungal diversity and plant
diversity from local to global scales, and there is a lack of information about the diversity …