The search for generality is perhaps the greatest driver of modern ecology and probably also the greatest source of ecological angst. Thoug...

Community ecologists talk about communities as experiencing particular processes in a rather general way. We fall into rather Clementsian la...

I am organizing a 'community ecology' reading group, and someone asked me whether I didn’t think focusing on communities wasn’t a li...

Maybe it is just confirmation bias, but there seems to have been an upswing in the number of cool papers on the role of intraspecific varia...

Community phylogenetics has received plenty of criticism over the last ten years (e.g. Mayfield and Levine, 2010; Gerhold et al. 2015). Much...

Someone asked me what is the most important or lingering issue in community ecology recently. (There’s probably a whole post to answer that ...

Like many concepts in ecology (metacommunity, community), the idea of a regional species pool is useful, makes conceptual sense, and is inc...

A recent Nature paper argues that there is evidence for human impacts on communities starting at least six thousand years ago, which altere...

Understanding disease and parasites from a community context is an increasingly popular approach and one that has benefited both disease a...

Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly. 2015. Gary G. Mittelbach, Douglas W. Schemske. Trends in Ecology and Evolu...

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence. 2015. Nathan J. B. Kraft, Oscar Godoy, and Jonathan M. Levin...

I attended the joint British Ecological Society/Société Française d’Ecologie ( BES/SFE ) meeting held in Lille, France, Dec. 9-12. I qui...