Advances in next-generation sequencing have enabled the widespread measurement of
microbiome composition across systems and over the course of microbiome assembly …

Ecological approaches to community assembly have emphasized the interplay between
neutral processes, niche-based environmental filtering and niche-based species sorting in …

Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity is the first book to provide comprehensive
coverage of standard methods for biodiversity sampling of amphibians, with information on …

Ecosystems provide essential services for human society, which include provisioning,
regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Amphibians provide provisioning services by …

Large-scale coral bleaching episodes are potentially major disturbances to coral reef
systems, yet a definitive picture of variation in assemblage response and species …

Because the integrity of aquatic ecosystems is being challenged worldwide by invading
species, there is a growing need to understand the invasion process and to predict the …

As part of an overall decline in biodiversity, populations of many organisms are declining
and species are being lost at unprecedented rates around the world. This includes many …

A meta-analysis was conducted on field-competition experiments published in six journals
over a 10-yr period. We analyzed the effects of competition on the biomass of organisms …

It was relatively easy to produce alternative community states as a function of variability in a
sequence of species invasions employed to assemble a community. Numerous mechanisms …

Priority effects refer to the order or timing of species arrival, including how species that arrive
early at a site either positively or negatively affect establishment, growth, or reproduction of …