Succession is a fundamental concept in ecology because it indicates how species
populations, communities, and ecosystems change over time on new substrate or after a …

Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community
ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Interactions among terrestrial carnivores involve a complex interplay of competition,
predation and facilitation via carrion provisioning, and these negative and positive pathways …

This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to
all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

5. Space-for-Tlme Substitution 111 dams and organic storage in streams introduce a past to
certain aquatic systems. The impact of temporal differences in fish recruitment can cascade …

We discuss the dynamics of plant litter, the effects of litter on the chemical and physical
environment, the direct and indirect effects of plant litter on plant populations and …

Aim This paper presents the statistical bases for temporal beta‐diversity analysis, a method
to study changes in community composition through time from repeated surveys at several …