Modeling and inference are central to most areas of science and especially to evolving and
complex systems. Critically, the information we have is often uncertain and insufficient …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Humans have observed the natural world and how people interact with it for millennia. Over
the past century, synthesis and expansion of that understanding has occurred under the …

Communities are comprised of individual species that respond to changes in their
environment depending in part on their niche requirements. These species comprise the …

Little consensus has emerged regarding how proximate and ultimate drivers such as
productivity, disturbance and temperature may affect species richness and other aspects of …

There is a need to revise the framework used to project species risks under climate change
(CC) and land‐use/cover change (LUCC) scenarios. We built a CC risk index using the …

Questions Ecologists are increasingly interested in community‐level consequences of biotic
interactions. However, community‐level studies have not considered that biotic interactions …

The maximum entropy theory of ecology (METE) is a unified theory of biodiversity that
predicts a large number of macroecological patterns using information on only species …

Abstract The Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology (METE) predicts the shapes of
macroecological metrics in relatively static ecosystems, across spatial scales, taxonomic …

The species abundance distribution (SAD) is one of the most intensively studied
distributions in ecology and its hollow‐curve shape is one of ecology's most general …