Despite their extent and socio‐ecological importance, a comprehensive biogeographical
synthesis of drylands is lacking. Here we synthesize the biogeography of key organisms …

Priority effects play a key role in structuring natural communities, but considerable confusion
remains about how they affect different ecological systems. Synthesizing previous studies …

With the advent of the Anthropocene, biological invasions have reached an unprecedented
level, and the number of species introductions is still increasing in an ever‐changing world …

Background Gut fungi are increasingly recognized as important contributors to host
physiology, although most studies have focused on gut bacteria. Post-translational …

Invasive plants disrupt native biodiversity and ecosystem functions and their distribution
increase with ongoing global land-use changes. Clarifying plant nitrogen (N) uptake and …

Invasion by non-native plants is frequently attributed to increased resource availability. Still,
our understanding is mainly based on effects of single resources and on plants grown …

Symbiotic organisms may contribute to a host plant's success or failure to grow, its ability to
maintain viable populations, and potentially, its probability of establishment and spread …

The rhizosphere and phyllosphere are the below-and above-ground microbial ecosystems
of plants. Interactions between the rhizosphere and phyllosphere shape the plant …

It has been suggested that establishment of one alien invader might promote further
invasions. Such a so‐called invasional meltdown could be mediated by differences in soil …

Native plant communities can be invaded by different numbers of alien plant species or by
the same number of alien plant species with different levels of evenness. However, little is …