In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

According to the invasion criterion, stable coexistence requires that all species in a
community increase in abundance when rare, which occurs when stabilizing mechanisms …

Unraveling the influence of community assembly processes on soil ecosystem functioning
presents a major challenge in the field of theoretical ecology, as it has received limited …

Niche Theory is a central framework in ecology based on the recognition that most
interactions between organisms are indirect, mediated by the biotic and abiotic dynamical …

In the context of open innovation business environments, more and more firms are joining
together and creating innovation ecosystems to improve their innovation capabilities by …

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

The increasing application of plastic film has caused the “white pollution” of farmlands in
greenhouses. To date, most studies on the ecology of the plastisphere have focused on the …

Manure application is a significant agriculture practice that can affect the microbial
community structure in both topsoil and subsoil. However, how the abundant and rare taxa …

The mutualism between plants and pollinators is built upon the trophic ecology of flowers
and florivores. Yet the ecology of flowers‐as‐food is left implicit in most studies of plant …

Ecological theory predicts that species interactions embedded in multitrophic networks
shape the opportunities for species to persist. However, the lack of experimental support of …