What maintains stability within an ecosystem and prevents a single best competitor from displacing other species from a community? Does ecosystem stability depend upon the presence of a wide variety ...

Ciliates represent a diverse and ecologically significant group of microbial eukaryotes whose evolutionary relationships and species diversity continue to captivate researchers worldwide. Recent ...

Every ecosystem is shaped by billions of invisible battles: organisms competing for light, nutrients, space, or mates. These competitive interactions determine which species survive, how they evolve, ...

The road ahead -- Patterns in space -- Patterns in time -- Dimensionless patterns -- Speciation -- Extinction -- Coevolution of habitat diversity and species diversity -- Species--area curves: the ...