Scaling species interactions: implications for community ecology and biological scaling theory by Douglas S. Glazier

“…Body-size scaling of biotic interactions has not only important implications for the development of synthetic theory bridging community ecology and biological scaling, but also practical applications for understanding the effects of human exploitation and climate change on living systems.…”
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Effects of water nutrient concentrations on stream macroinvertebrate community stoichiometry: a large-scale study by Beck, Miriam, Billoir, Elise, Usseglio-Polatera, Philippe, Meyer, Albin, Gautreau, Edwige, Danger, Michael

Subjects: “…community ecology…”
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treeducken: An R package for simulating cophylogenetic systems by Wade Dismukes, Tracy A. Heath

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Cool topoclimates promote cold-adapted plant diversity in temperate mountain forests by Borderieux, Jeremy, De Lombaerde, Emiel, De Pauw, Karen, Sanczuk, Pieter, Vangansbeke, Pieter, Vanneste, Thomas, De Frenne, Pieter, Gégout, Jean-Claude, Serra-Diaz, Josep

Subjects: “…Community ecology, forest, topoclimate, microclimate, topography, climatic refugia, diversity, understory vegetation…”
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Poor hypotheses and research waste in biology: learning from a theory crisis in psychology by Shinichi Nakagawa, David W. Armitage, Tom Froese, Yefeng Yang, Malgorzata Lagisz

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Provision of essential resources as a persistence strategy in food webs by Raatz, Michael

“…This research shows that essential resources and the higher-order interactions created by them should be considered in community ecology. …”
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Species abundance, urn models, and neutrality by Chave, Jerome

“…The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography has stimulated much research in community ecology. Here, exact results are used to apply neutral model predictions to large regional samples. …”
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Future climate and agricultural farming systems affect the fungal plastisphere of different biodegradable plastics at the early stage of field degradation by Benjawan Tanunchai, Martin Schädler, Matthias Noll

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Getting more by asking for less: Linking species interactions to species co-distributions in metacommunities by Barbier, Matthieu, Bunin, Guy, Leibold, Mathew A.

“…One of the more difficult challenges in community ecology is inferring species interactions on the basis of patterns in the spatial distribution of organisms. …”
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Organic molecules are deterministically assembled in variably inundated river sediments, but drivers remain unclear by James C. Stegen, Vanessa A. Garayburu-Caruso, Robert E. Danczak, Rosalie K. Chu, Amy E. Goldman, Sophia McKever, Lupita Renteria, Jason Toyoda, WHONDRS Consortium

“…By examining these processes through a community ecology perspective, we aim to understand the balance between stochastic forces (e.g., random mixing of DOM) and deterministic forces (e.g., systematic loss of certain types of DOM molecules) shaping DOM chemistry. …”
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Species specificity and specificity diversity (SSD) framework: a novel method for detecting the unique and enriched species associated with disease by leveraging the microbiome het... by Zhanshan Sam Ma

“…The second element is a new concept to introduce here, the (species) specificity diversity (SD), which is inspired by traditional species (abundance) diversity in community ecology and measures the diversity of specificity (a proxy for metacommunity heterogeneity, essentially) with Renyi’s entropy. …”
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One-hectare fine-scale dataset of a fynbos plant community in the Cape Floristic RegionZenodo by Jan-Hendrik Keet, Cang Hui

“…This dataset provides a valuable contribution to the field of fynbos ecology, as well as plant community ecology in general, and establishes a benchmark for future one-hectare surveys of similar fynbos vegetation types, delineating the fine-scale composition and structure of fynbos in the CFR. …”
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The culture of ecological centers as a significant element of urban life in eco-cities by Alina Shaikhieva, Anastasya Korovina, Sergey Tkach, Maya Rusakova

“…The theoretical paradigm of habitus enables to analyse the community's ecological culture. The space itself benefits greatly from visitor behaviours; for example, a normal visitor's path is automated and predictable. …”
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Precipitation changes alter the structure, species composition and interspecific relationships of desert steppe plant communities by Kechen Song, Hao Zhang, Haiying Hu, Yingzhong Xie, Xiaona Zhao, Yiyin Zhang, Jiayi Yong, Wenhui Deng, Siyu Guan

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