How is trait diversity in a community apportioned between and within coevolving species?
Disruptive selection may result in either a few species with large intraspecific trait variation …

Trait variation within populations is an important area of research for empirical and
theoretical ecologists. While differences between individuals are doubtlessly ubiquitous …

Intraspecific trait variation is widespread in nature, yet its effects on community dynamics are
not well understood. Here we explore the consequences of intraspecific trait variation for …

Natural populations consist of phenotypically diverse individuals that exhibit variation in their
demographic parameters and intra-and inter-specific interactions. Recent experimental work …

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 …

The resources that organisms depend on often fluctuate over time, and a variety of common
traits are thought to be adaptations to variable resource supply. To understand the trait …

A classic community assembly hypothesis is that all guilds must be represented before
additional species from any given guild enter the community. We conceptually extend this …

There is growing interest in the interplay between ecological interactions among community
members and evolutionary processes. At all scales, from genetic variation within …

Species that coexist in diverse natural communities interact in complex ways that alter each
other's abundances and affect selection on each other's traits. Consequently, predicting trait …

Trait variation is central to our understanding of species interactions, and trait variation
arising within species is increasingly recognized as an important component of community …