The tremendous diversity of species in ecological communities has motivated a century of
research into the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. However, much of this work …

Alternative perspectives on the maintenance of biodiversity and the assembly of ecological
communities suggest that both processes cannot be investigated simultaneously. In this …

A quantitative approach to species coexistence based on the invasibility criterion has led to
an appreciation of coexistence mechanisms in terms of stabilizing and equalizing …

Although observations of species‐rich communities have long served as a primary
motivation for research on the coexistence of competitors, the majority of our empirical and …

While most alien species fail to establish, some invade native communities and become
widespread. Our understanding of invasion success is derived mainly from pairwise …

Biological diversity depends on multiple, cooccurring ecological interactions. However, most
studies focus on one interaction type at a time, leaving community ecologists unsure of how …

The quest for understanding how species interactions modulate diversity has progressed by
theoretical and empirical advances following niche and network theories. Yet, niche studies …

Coexistence theory has been developed with an almost exclusive focus on interactions
between two species, often ignoring more complex and indirect interactions, such as …

The dynamics and stability of ecological communities are intimately linked with the specific
interactions—like cooperation or predation—between constituent species. In microbial …

Historically, those ecological communities thought to be dominated by competitive
interactions among their component species have been assumed to exhibit transitive …