Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

This study examines the combined effects of multiple global change perturbations on grassland ecosystems, finding that most combinations have negative impacts, with drought being a dominant factor.

The paper analyzes how competition, ecological drift, and immigration shape community composition distributions, showing that competition can lead to species dominance even when deterministic models predict coexistence.

The paper shows that root functional traits better predict population temporal stability in grasslands than aboveground traits, with land use intensity modifying these relationships.

This study shows that demographic parameters, not metabolic rate or initial evenness, predict community dominance in phytoplankton microcosms.

This study examines the density-yield relationship of an invasive grass in California chaparral, finding it follows the constant final yield hypothesis and suggests full removal is needed for effective restoration.

This study tests hypotheses about factors driving invasion success in non-native ferns, finding no phylogenetic clustering, conserved climatic niches, smaller genomes in naturalized ferns, and higher ploidal levels in invaders.

This study examines how extreme drought affects ground-dwelling invertebrate diversity under different warming scenarios, finding delayed diversity declines and weakened plant-invertebrate coupling under constant warming.

The paper examines how functional niche attributes influence species interaction roles in ecological networks, finding that niche variability inversely affects interaction variability and that these effects depend on species biomass and community composition.

This study investigates how plant-soil feedback and resource competition jointly influence plant coexistence across elevation gradients in the Swiss Alps.

This study investigates the factors limiting the northward spread of invasive knotweed through a transplant experiment, finding that low temperatures reduce below-ground biomass and hinder expansion.

The paper compares productivity and stability between natural and planted forests, finding natural forests more productive and stable, with different drivers in each type.

The paper introduces a triple power law methodology integrating Taylor's, Smith's, and diversity power laws to analyze diversity and heterogeneity in microbial ecosystems using human gut and vaginal microbiome data.

The paper tests two hypotheses about how physical disturbance affects biodiversity, finding that early disturbance increases diversity by weakening competition, while late disturbance reduces it through demographic effects.

The paper tests the insurance hypothesis by showing that high land-use intensity reduces response diversity, which increases functional stability but decreases species diversity and compositional stability in grassland communities.

This paper translates Tilman's resource-ratio model to the metacommunity scale, introducing MetcommR and Patchwork Biplot to analyze ecological dynamics in the Cerrado.

The paper presents a geometric model explaining species range size patterns through dispersal barriers, showing it aligns with observed distributions in amphibians, birds, and mammals.

The paper investigates how artificial light at night and invasive snails interact to enhance the invasion of a non-native aquatic plant.

The paper integrates belowground plant traits to show persistence strategies are a critical dimension of plant function beyond resource acquisition and exploration.

This paper introduces a dynamic biomass framework to assess food-web robustness, identifying vital species sets and cluster influence effects under species removal.

The paper uses stochastic simulations of population models to show life history traits predict how population structure influences population growth rate under environmental variability.

The paper presents a mechanistic framework explaining the facilitation-to-competition transition in plant interactions along rainfall gradients, showing it depends on resource availability and woody density.

The paper shows a 35% reduction in new invasive alien species establishment over 50 years, indicating effective global policies.

The paper uses a global dataset of urban alien plants to test island biogeography theory, finding that city size and geographic isolation interact to influence alien plant richness, with hub-dependent variations.

The paper shows that nutrient enrichment, especially with nitrogen and phosphorus, reduces C4 plant cover in grasslands, disrupting climate-driven C3-C4 balance globally.

This study compares the functional stability of vertebrate communities in two Cote dIvoire national parks over a decade, finding PNTAI has higher resilience and diversity than PNCOMOE.

This study assesses biodiversity recovery in secondary forests around Taï National Park, finding faster recovery of diversity than floristic composition, with remnant trees and prior land use influencing recovery rates.

The paper uses Bayesian network models to show that food webs with high maximum trophic level are most vulnerable to coextinctions, outperforming other structural metrics in predicting ecosystem susceptibility.

This paper shows response diversity can stabilize or destabilize communities depending on the proportion of insensitive species, highlighting the need for better metrics that distinguish species sensitivity from response variation.

The paper introduces a probabilistic equivalent number index for assemblages of units represented as probability density functions, enabling additive partitioning across scales in ecological and biological contexts.

This study uses a metapopulation simulation to show how dispersal interacts with landscape changes to affect species survival, highlighting the need for large-scale connectivity in conservation.