Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

Deterministic theories in community ecology suggest that local, niche-based processes,
such as environmental filtering, biotic interactions and interspecific trade-offs largely …

Mechanisms that favour rare species are key to the maintenance of diverse communities,–.
One of the most critical tasks for conservation of flowering plant biodiversity is to understand …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

We present strong evidence that pathogens play a critical role in structuring plant
communities and maintaining plant diversity. Pathogens mediate plant species coexistence …

Theory predicts that higher biodiversity in the tropics is maintained by specialized
interactions among plants and their natural enemies that result in conspecific negative …

Understanding spatial variation in biodiversity along environmental gradients is a central
theme in ecology. Differences in species compositional turnover among sites (β diversity) …

The accumulation of species-specific enemies around adults is hypothesized to maintain
plant diversity by limiting the recruitment of conspecific seedlings relative to heterospecific …

Predominant frameworks for understanding plant ecology have an aboveground bias that
neglects soil micro-organisms. This is inconsistent with recent work illustrating the …

It is debated whether species-level differences in ecological strategy, which play a key role
in much of coexistence theory, are important in structuring highly diverse communities. We …