Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in shaping
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

Recent advances in robotics and affordable genomic sequencing technologies have made it
possible to establish and quantitatively track the assembly of enrichment communities in …

For microbiome biology to become a more predictive science, we must identify which
descriptive features of microbial communities are reproducible and predictable, which are …

Life history, the schedule of when and how fast organisms grow, die and reproduce, is a
critical axis along which species differ from each other,,–. In parallel, competition is a …

The microbial communities resident in animal intestines are composed of multiple species
that together play important roles in host development, health, and disease. Due to the …

Local coexistence of species in large ecosystems is traditionally explained within the broad
framework of niche theory. However, its rationale hardly justifies rich biodiversity observed in …

Models of consumer effects on a shared resource environment have helped clarify how the
interplay of consumer traits and resource supply impact stable coexistence. Recent models …

A fundamental problem in ecology is to understand how competition shapes biodiversity and
species coexistence. Historically, one important approach for addressing this question has …

Ecology has historically benefited by characterizing statistical patterns of biodiversity within
and across communities. This approach, encompassed by the discipline of macroecology …

The long-term success of introduced populations depends on their initial size and ability to
compete against existing residents, but it remains unclear how these factors collectively …