Recent work has shown that evaluating functional trait distinctiveness, the average trait
distance of a species to other species in a community offers promising insights into …

Competition and mutualism are inevitable processes in microbial ecology, and a central
question is which and how many taxa will persist in the face of these interactions. Ecological …

The frequently observed positive correlation between species diversity and community
biomass is thought to depend on both the degree of resource partitioning and on competitive …

Motivated by both analytical tractability and empirical practicality, community ecologists have
long treated the species pair as the fundamental unit of study. This notwithstanding, the …

Competition in ecology is often modeled in terms of direct, negative effects of one individual
on another. An example is logistic growth, modeling the effects of intraspecific competition …

A plant species immigrating into a community may experience a rarity disadvantage due to
competition for the services of pollinators. These negative reproductive interactions have the …

One of the central questions of metacommunity theory is how dispersal of organisms affects
species diversity. Here, we show that the diversity–dispersal relationship should not be …

Patterns of trait distribution among competing species can potentially reveal the processes
that allow them to coexist. It has been recently proposed that competition may drive the …

A traditional question in community ecology is whether species' traits are distributed as more-
or-less regularly spaced clusters. Interspecific competition has been suggested to play a role …

Interactions among multiple resources and consumers involve two indirect interactions:
resource competition among consumers and apparent competition among resources …