Seed dispersal, or the movement of diaspores away from the parent location, is a multiscale,
multipartner process that depends on the interaction of plant life history with vector …

Microbial communities are not the easiest to manipulate experimentally in natural
ecosystems. However, leaf litter—topmost layer of surface soil—is uniquely suitable to …

Seed limitation can narrow down the number of coexisting plant species, limit plant
community productivity, and also constrain community responses to changing environmental …

Traits related to reproduction and dispersal drive the assembly and dynamics of species
communities and can explain and predict how species respond to habitat loss and …

Herbivores shape plant invasions through impacts on demography and dispersal, yet only
demographic mechanisms are well understood. Although herbivores negatively impact …

For decades community ecology has examined empirical relationships between ecosystem
productivity and diversity. Despite this long history, tests of hypothesized mechanisms …