Inferring species interactions in ecological communities: a comparison of methods at different levels of complexity

Experimental evidence for strong stabilizing forces at high functional diversity of aquatic microbial communities

(2015) Francesco Carrara et al.   ECOLOGY

Big answers from small worlds: a user's guide for protist microcosms as a model system in ecology and evolution

(2014) Florian Altermatt et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling body size fluctuations

(2013) A. Giometto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species

(2012) Kevin R. Foster et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Niche dimensionality links biodiversity and invasibility of microbial communities

(2012) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

(2012) F. Carrara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competition–colonization dynamics in experimental bacterial metacommunities

(2012) George Livingston et al.   Nature Communications

Species phylogenetic relatedness, priority effects, and ecosystem functioning

(2011) Jiaqi Tan et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

(2011) Cyrille Violle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities

(2011) Florian Altermatt et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic relatedness predicts priority effects in nectar yeast communities

(2011) K. G. Peay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An Experimental Test of Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis

(2010) Lin Jiang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Interactive effects of disturbance and dispersal directionality on species richness and composition in metacommunities

(2010) Florian Altermatt et al.   ECOLOGY

Closely related protist strains have different grazing impacts on natural bacterial communities

(2010) Edvard Glücksman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Species’ traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

(2008) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity

(2008) Brett A. Melbourne et al.   NATURE

Niche Partitioning Increases Resource Exploitation by Diverse Communities

(2008) Deborah L. Finke et al.   SCIENCE

A General Model for Food Web Structure

(2008) S. Allesina et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond Competition: Incorporating Positive Interactions between Species to Predict Ecosystem Invasibility

(2008) Fabio Bulleri et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY