Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

This study investigates how nitrogen enrichment affects consumer damage across different organisational levels in grasslands, finding that community characteristics are more influential than nitrogen enrichment.

This paper presents a general framework explaining variation in plant economics traits across environments and ontogeny through three core assumptions about growth optimization and tradeoffs.

The paper uses Bayesian models to show that population responses to environmental stochasticity vary widely and are driven by survival-reproduction trade-offs and aridity.

The paper develops a demographic framework to assess population vulnerability to different perturbation types and shows adult survival perturbations have the strongest impact, with vulnerability increasing in slower life histories.

The paper tests the bioark hypothesis in Atlanta by analyzing ant communities, finding that invasive species, not habitat structure, drive native diversity loss in urban areas.

The paper shows that trait dissimilarity-based tree species loss affects how tree diversity influences herbivory and pathogen infestation, with functional diversity playing a key role.

The paper examines how community-climate disequilibrium affects net primary productivity in rangeland ecosystems, finding that mismatched communities are less productive.

This paper evaluates how well joint species distribution models capture biotic interactions through simulations across different interaction mechanisms and model integration levels.

This study examines the relationship between plant rarity and biodiversity, finding that rare plants contribute significantly to local biodiversity through their interactions with arthropods and other plants.

The study shows that non-native plants become more dominant than native plants as the number of global change factors increases in experimental communities.

The paper develops a method to estimate biodiversity risk metrics from species-area relationships using empirical data from forest censuses.

This study shows that Berberis angulosa shrubs enhance plant biodiversity and protect species of conservation value in the Nepal Himalayas through facilitative effects.

This paper develops a trait-based predictive model to assess arthropod invasion potential, applying it to Tropilaelaps mites to identify key traits and predict their invasive capacity.

The paper shows habitat structure influences the rate of community warming in response to climate change across different ecosystems.

The paper examines how habitat fragmentation and disturbance affect the regeneration and persistence of wild olive trees in Ethiopia, finding that disturbance significantly reduces seedling occurrence and persistence.

The paper compares arthropod occurrence on native versus alien woody plants across eastern North America, finding higher caterpillar, beetle, and spider occurrence on native plants.

The paper shows that soil effects mediate indirect interactions between plant species, stabilizing coexistence by altering growth and germination rates.

This study quantifies thermophilization and climatic debt in Japanese forests, finding increasing climatic debt correlates with declines in primary productivity.

This study examines elevational gradients in Ithomiini butterfly communities across two Neotropical regions, finding consistent patterns in diversity and phylogenetic structure shaped by habitat filtering and biotic interactions.

This study examines how functional and biological diversity affect the growth and recovery of Synechococcus communities under different stressors.

This paper uses simulations to study how habitat transformation affects biodiversity, finding that adaptation can reduce species diversity while habitat change has mixed short- and long-term effects.

The paper examines how warming and plant invasion interact to affect carbon fluxes in New Zealand alpine grasslands, finding invader-specific responses and abiotic/functional trait controls.

The paper introduces a unified mathematical framework that integrates four metacommunity paradigms and demonstrates its accuracy in capturing ecological dynamics where traditional models fail.

This study evaluates how predictability varies with biodiversity metrics, spatial scale, and forecast horizon in estuarine ecosystems, informing conservation strategies based on predictability regimes.

The paper shows invasive alien predators reverse species-area and network-area relationships in ponds by causing prey extinctions and simplifying food webs.

This study shows that network topology affects ecological processes differently at local and global scales in experimental metacommunities.

This study assesses whether coastal plantation forests can substitute for natural coastal forests in supporting bird and plant species, finding comparable bird richness but lower plant richness and altered zonation patterns.

This paper introduces a new beta diversity framework that couples abundance and spatial distribution, revealing ecological phase transitions and isolating environmental filtering effects.

This paper shows that additive habitat-amount models cannot reliably infer independent configuration effects due to asymmetric nonlinear coupling between habitat amount and configuration.

The paper examines how glacier retreat alters trophic networks by analyzing plant-arthropod interactions over 140 years, finding that interaction turnover outpaces species turnover.