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

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is so frequently discussed in the ecological literature that it has its own ...

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

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses. 2016. Elisabeth J. Forrestel, Michael J. Donoghue,  Erika J. Edwar...

For the first time since 2008 I didn’t make it to ESA, and instead I get to attend my first EcoSummit, here in Montpellier. Participants rep...

It seems that increasingly, ecology is moving away from relying primarily on summary statistics and approximations, to considering measures ...

I was recently asked “what is the most important problem in ecology?”. I was dissatisfied with whatever I ended up answering, so it has been...

The third day of ESA talks saw an interesting session on functional ecology (Functional Traits in Ecological Research: What Have We Learned...

Are there a limited number of categories or groupings into which all niches can be classified?  I’ll  admit that my first reaction is s...

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

Are ecologists conducting research at the optimal scale? Jackson, H.B. and Fahrig, L. 2014. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24, 52–63. ...

How can we better predict invasions? Ernesto Azzurro, Victor M. Tuset,Antoni Lombarte, Francesc Maynou, Daniel Simberloff,  Ana Rodrígue...