Plants can recruit soil microorganisms into the rhizosphere when experiencing various
environmental stresses, including biotic (eg, insect pests) and abiotic (eg, heavy metal …

Half a century ago, Janzen and Connell hypothesized that the high tree species diversity in
tropical forests is maintained by specialized natural enemies. Along with other mechanisms …

A quantitative approach to species coexistence based on the invasibility criterion has led to
an appreciation of coexistence mechanisms in terms of stabilizing and equalizing …

Understanding the mechanisms that maintain microbial biodiversity is a critical aspiration in
ecology. Past work on microbial coexistence has largely focused on species pairs, but it is …

Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

Community ecology typically assumes that competitive exclusion and species coexistence
are unaffected by evolution on the time scale of ecological dynamics. However, recent …

The structure of the competitive network is an important driver of biodiversity and
coexistence in natural communities. In addition to determining which species survive, the …

According to the competitive exclusion principle, species with low competitive abilities
should be excluded by more efficient competitors; yet, they generally remain as rare species …

Endophytes often have dramatic effects on their host plants. Characterizing the relationships
among members of these communities has focused on identifying the effects of single …

We present an overlooked but important property of modern coexistence theory (MCT),
along with two key new results and their consequences. The overlooked property is that …