Accurate climate projections require an understanding of the effects of warming on
ecological communities and the underlying mechanisms that drive them,–. However, little is …

Succession is defined as a directional change in species populations, the community, and
the ecosystem at a site following a disturbance. Succession is a fundamental concept in …

Ecological succession–how biological communities re‐assemble and change over time
following natural or anthropogenic disturbance–has been studied since the birth of ecology …

The evolutionary split between gymnosperms and angiosperms has far‐reaching
implications for the current communities colonizing trees. The inherent characteristics of …

The construction of dams has caused riparian habitat degradation and ecosystem service
loss globally. It is critical to assess the response of riparian plant communities to inundation …

A widely assumed, but largely untested, tenet in ecology is that ecosystem stability tends to
increase over succession. We rigorously test this idea using 60-year continuous data of old …

Ecological communities are assembled through a series of multiple processes, including
dispersal, abiotic and biotic filtering, and ecological drift. Although these assembly …

Although invasive plants increasingly contribute to the current biodiversity crisis, the
mechanisms through which they impact native communities are still poorly understood …

The patterns of successional change of decomposer communities is unique in that resource
availability predictably decreases as decomposition proceeds. Saproxylic (ie deadwood …

Research into species composition and diversity in forest systems with successional stages
can provide a scientific basis for optimal allocation and regulation of community structure …