The invasion criterion: a common currency for ecological research

TN Grainger, JM Levine, B Gilbert - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019 - cell.com
According to the invasion criterion, stable coexistence requires that all species in a
community increase in abundance when rare, which occurs when stabilizing mechanisms …

Why phylogenies do not always predict ecological differences

MW Cadotte, TJ Davies… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The merger of phylogenies with ecology has given rise to the field of “community
phylogenetics,” predicated on the assumption that ecological differences among species …

Linking modern coexistence theory and contemporary niche theory

AD Letten, PJ Ke, T Fukami - Ecological Monographs, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Modern coexistence theory and contemporary niche theory represent parallel frameworks
for understanding the niche's role in species coexistence. Despite increasing prominence …

Ecological drift and the distribution of species diversity

B Gilbert, JM Levine - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecological drift causes species abundances to fluctuate randomly, lowering diversity within
communities and increasing differences among otherwise equivalent communities. Despite …

Moving beyond the “diversity paradox”: the limitations of competition-based frameworks in understanding species diversity

A Simha, CJ Pardo-De la Hoz… - The American …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Over the past century, ecologists have attempted to understand patterns of species diversity
by showing stable coexistence arising from a baseline expectation of competitive exclusion …

Towards the integration of niche and network theories

O Godoy, I Bartomeus, RP Rohr, S Saavedra - Trends in Ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
The quest for understanding how species interactions modulate diversity has progressed by
theoretical and empirical advances following niche and network theories. Yet, niche studies …

Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis

RD Briscoe Runquist, AJ Gorton… - The American …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Understanding how spatially variable selection shapes adaptation is an area of long-
standing interest in evolutionary ecology. Recent meta-analyses have quantified the extent …

Phylogenetic relatedness enhances the understanding of soil microbial coexistence in alpine wetlands of the Tibetan Plateau

X Liu, C Zhang, T Yang, GF Gao, Y Shi… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil microorganisms, spanning diverse phylogenetic lineages, form complex ecological
networks wherein various species coexist and contribute to multiple ecosystem services …

On the consequences of the interdependence of stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms

C Song, G Barabás, S Saavedra - The American Naturalist, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
We present an overlooked but important property of modern coexistence theory (MCT),
along with two key new results and their consequences. The overlooked property is that …

Widespread analytical pitfalls in empirical coexistence studies and a checklist for improving their statistical robustness

JCD Terry, DW Armitage - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Modern coexistence theory (MCT) offers a conceptually straightforward approach for
connecting empirical observations with an elegant theoretical framework, gaining popularity …