Understanding the processes shaping biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

The hypothesis that environmental heterogeneity promotes species richness by increasing
opportunities for niche partitioning is a fundamental paradigm in ecology. However, recent …

Species richness is commonly thought to increase with habitat diversity. However, a recent
theoretical model aiming to unify niche and island biogeography theories predicted a hump …

We present an analytical model that unifies two of the most influential theories in community
ecology, namely, island biogeography and niche theory. Our model captures the main …

Understanding how disturbance affects biodiversity is important for both fundamental and
applied reasons. Here, I investigate how disturbances with different ecological effects …

Despite growing evidence that, on average, diverse forests tend to be more productive than
species‐poor ones, individual studies often report strongly contrasting relationships …

The competition–colonization trade‐off has long been a mechanism explaining patterns of
species coexistence and diversity in nonequilibrium systems. It forms one explanation of the …

We aim to develop a simple model to explore how disturbance and propagule pressure
determine conditions for successful invasion in systems where recruitment occurs only in …

Disturbance is an important factor influencing diversity patterns. Ecological theory predicts
that diversity peaks at intermediate levels of disturbance, but this pattern is not present in a …

Disturbance is a key factor affecting plant species richness and it has been hypothesized
that species richness reaches a peak some time after disturbance occurs. Managed boreal …