Trade‐offs and Biological Diversity: Integrative Answers to Ecological Questions

PR Martin - Integrative organismal biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
What determines the abundance and distribution of species? This question is paramount to
ecology because it encompasses the interactions of individuals, populations, and species …

Recasting the dynamic equilibrium model through a functional lens: the interplay of trait‐based community assembly and climate

J Loranger, C Violle, B Shipley, S Lavorel… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
According to the dynamic equilibrium hypothesis (DEH), plant species richness is locally
controlled by productivity and disturbance. Given that regional conditions widely affect local …

Does energy flux predict density‐dependence? An empirical field test

G Ghedini, CR White, DJ Marshall - Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in population density alter the availability, acquisition, and expenditure of
resources by individuals, and consequently their contribution to the flux of energy in a …

Niches drive peaked and positive relationships between diversity and disturbance in natural ecosystems

AJ Tanentzap, WG Lee, KAC Schulz - Ecosphere, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A unified understanding of the relationship between disturbance and biodiversity is needed
to predict biotic responses to global change. Recent advances have identified the need to …

Stochastic competitive exclusion leads to a cascade of species extinctions

JA Capitán, S Cuenda, D Alonso - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Community ecology has traditionally relied on the competitive exclusion principle, a piece of
common wisdom in conceptual frameworks developed to describe species assemblages …

A pilot study: changes of intestinal microbiota of patients with non-small cell lung cancer in response to osimertinib therapy

J Cong, Y Zhang, Y Xue, C Zhang, M Xu, D Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Osimertinib contributes to the higher efficacy and few intestinal side effects in non-small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with T790M mutation. Previous studies has reported that …

Phylogenetic diversity stabilizes community biomass

Z Pu, P Daya, J Tan, L Jiang - Journal of Plant Ecology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Aims The relationship between biodiversity and ecological stability is a long-standing issue
in ecology. Current diversity–stability studies, which have largely focused on species …

Chemotherapy alters the phylogenetic molecular ecological networks of intestinal microbial communities

J Cong, J Zhu, C Zhang, T Li, K Liu, D Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Intestinal microbiota is now widely known to play key roles in nutritional uptake, metabolism,
and regulation of human immune responses. There are multiple studies assessing intestinal …

Testing mechanisms underlying elevational patterns of lakeshore plant community assembly in Poyang Lake, China

Z Lan, Y Chen, L Li, F Li, B Jin… - Journal of plant ecology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims Plant community assembly in wetlands usually changes with elevation gradients,
which may be due to the direct effect of flooding and indirect effects such as changes in soil …

CeO2 nanoparticles alter the outcome of species interactions

C Peng, Y Chen, Z Pu, Q Zhao, X Tong, Y Chen… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Despite considerable research on the environmental impacts of nanomaterials, we know
little about how they influence interactions between species. Here, we investigated the acute …