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 …

Coexistence mechanisms that require environmental variation to operate contribute
importantly to the maintenance of biodiversity. One famous hypothesis of diversity …

An influential ecological theory, the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), predicts that
intermediate levels of disturbance will maximize species diversity. Empirical studies …

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) has been used for several decades as an
explanation for the coexistence of species in ecological communities. It is intuitively simple …

Two major foci of ecological research involve reciprocal views of the relationship between
biodiversity and disturbance: disturbance determines community diversity or diversity …

Ecologists have long recognized the roles of competition and disturbance in shaping
ecological communities, and the combinatorial effects of these two factors have been the …

Trade‐offs in species performances of different ecological functions is one of the most
common explanations for coexistence in communities. Despite the potential for species …

The question whether communities should be viewed as superorganisms or loose
collections of individual species has been the subject of a long‐standing debate in ecology …

Intra-specific variability often produces an overlap between species distributions of
individual performances which can influence competition relations and community …

There is a long tradition in ecology of trying to understand community assembly processes
by making inferences from patterns of community structure (Diamond 1975; Connor & …