This is a guest post by Aspen Reese , a graduate student at Duke University, who in addition to studying the role of trophic interactions i...

Community ecologists have struggled with some fundamental issues for their discipline. A longstanding example is that we have failed to form...

Some of the most frequently used ecological concepts can be difficult to define. Sometimes this lack of clarity leads to a poor understandi...

Examining the phylogenetic structure of a community in order to understand patterns of community assembly has become an increasingly popular...

With the world’s fisheries teetering on the edge of collapse, familiar items at your local sushi bar might disappear in the near future. On...

After attending the presentation by Elena Litchman at the ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in Nice three weeks ago I came across this paper. Al...