Modern coexistence theory (MCT) offers a conceptually straightforward approach for
connecting empirical observations with an elegant theoretical framework, gaining popularity …

The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics
within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept must move beyond …

Advances in restoration ecology are needed to guide ecological restoration in a variable
and changing world. Coexistence theory provides a framework for how variability in …

Competition can result in evolutionary changes to coexistence between competitors but
there are no theoretical models that predict how the components of coexistence change …

Functional traits are expected to modulate plant competitive dynamics. However, how traits
and their plasticity in response to contrasting environments connect with the mechanisms …

Ecologists have long argued that higher functioning in diverse communities arises from the
niche differences stabilizing species coexistence and from the fitness differences driving …

Explaining nature's biodiversity is a key challenge for science. To persist, populations must
be able to grow faster when rare, a feature called negative frequency dependence and …

While many ecological theories have historically invoked niche differences as the primary
mechanism allowing species coexistence, we now know that coexistence in competitive …

Accompanying the climate crisis is the more enigmatic biodiversity crisis. Rapid
reorganization of biodiversity due to global environmental change has defied prediction and …

Mathematical models serve many purposes in biology. Each and every model is a
necessary simplification of reality, and, as simplifications, these models are also wrong by …