Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in sha**
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

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

From tropical forests to gut microbiomes, ecological communities host notably high numbers
of coexisting species. Beyond high biodiversity, communities exhibit a range of complex …

The worldwide loss of species diversity brings urgency to understanding how diverse
ecosystems maintain stability. Whereas early ecological ideas and classic observations …

Microbial consortia exhibit complex functional properties in contexts ranging from soils to
bioreactors to human hosts. Understanding how community composition determines …

A central assumption in most ecological models is that the interactions in a community
operate only between pairs of species. However, two species may interactively affect the …

The prevalence of digital ecosystems and platforms underscores the need for a deeper
understanding of the factors that influence performance variations within these platforms …

We compute the typical number of equilibria of the generalized Lotka-Volterra equations
describing species-rich ecosystems with random, nonreciprocal interactions using the …

Highly diverse ecosystems exhibit a broad distribution of population sizes and species
turnover, where species at high and low abundances are exchanged over time. We show …

Understanding the behaviors of ecological systems is challenging given their multifaceted
complexity. To proceed, theoretical models such as Lotka-Volterra dynamics with random …