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Priority effects and season length shape long-term competition dynamics 99 17 5

Competitive ecosystems are robustly stabilized by structured environments 99 17 5

Competitive dominance in plant communities: Modeling approaches and theoretical predictions 99 17 5

Limitation by a shared mutualist promotes coexistence of multiple competing partners 99 17 5

Ecotone formation through ecological niche construction: the role of biodiversity and species interactions 99 17 5

Small-scale spatial structure affects predator-prey dynamics and coexistence 99 17 5

The importance of species interactions in spatially explicit eco-evolutionary community dynamics under climate change 99 86 17 5

Evolution of diversity in metabolic strategies 99 21 5

Ecological consequences of intraspecific variation in coevolutionary systems 99 21 5 4

Modeling microbial cross-feeding at intermediate scale portrays community dynamics and species coexistence 158 99 38 29 17 5 4

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks and the maintenance of metacommunity diversity in a changing environment 99 21 17 5

Short-term relative invader growth rate predicts long-term equilibrium proportion in a stable, coexisting microbial community 99 17 5

Weak predation strength promotes stable coexistence of predators and prey in the same chain and across chains 99 17 5

Predicting global dynamics of spatial microbial communities from local interaction rules 158 99 38 17 5

The key to complexity in interacting systems with multiple strains 99 17 5

Mortality and coexistence time both cause changes in predator-prey co-evolutionary dynamics 99 17 5

Species dynamics and interactions via metabolically informed consumer-resource models 99 38 17 5

Microbial species coexistence depends on the host environment 99 29 17 5

Fitness and community feedbacks: the two axes that drive long-term invasion impacts 99 17 5 4

Constrained proteome allocation affects coexistence inmodels of competitive microbial communities 99 38 17 5

Strain background, species frequency and environmental conditions are important in determining population dynamics and species co-existence between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus 99 5

Bridging parametric and nonparametric measures of species interactions unveils new insights of non-equilibrium dynamics 99 17 5

Dynamic population stage-structure stabilizes complex ecological communities 99 7 5

Temperature variability alters the stability and thresholds for collapse of interacting species 86 17 5

Community-wide seed dispersal distances peak at low levels of specialisation in size-structured networks 99 17 5 4

The role of higher-order biotic interactions on tropical tree growth 99 17 5

Soil microbial diversity impacts plant microbiomes more than herbivory 17 5

Stabilizing role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity 99 17 5

The shape of density dependence and the relationship between population growth, intraspecific competition and equilibrium population density 99 38 17 5

Positively and negatively autocorrelated environmental fluctuations have opposing effects on species coexistence 99 17 5

Disruption of cross-feeding interactions by invading taxa can cause invasional meltdown in microbial communities 99 17 5

Effects of phylogeny on coexistence in model communities 99 17 5

The evolution of competitive ability for essential resources 99 21 5

Non-shared dispersal networks with heterogeneity promote species coexistence in hierarchical competitive metacommunities 99 17 5

Trait-similarity and trait-hierarchy jointly determine co-occurrences of resident and invasive ant species 99 17 5

Understanding the emergence of contingent and deterministic exclusion in multispecies communities 99 17 5

Intuitive and broadly applicable definitions of niche and fitness differences 99 17 5 4

The impact of colonization history on the composition of ecological systems 99 17 5

Resource competition shapes biological rhythms and promotes temporal niche differentiation in a community simulation 99 5

Cooperation and Stability for Complex Systems in Resource-Limited Environments 99 17 5

Temporal environmental variation imposes differential selection on genomic and ecological traits of virtual plant communities 99 17 5

Emergence of stable motifs in consumer-resource communities 99 17 5

Metabolic rules of microbial community assembly 99 29 17 5

Impact of temporal pH fluctuations on the coexistence of nasal bacteria 99 29 17 5

Dynamical persistence in resource-consumer models 99 17 5

Cooperation increases robustness to ecological disturbance in microbial cross-feeding networks 99 21 5

Barriers to coexistence limit the poleward range of a globally-distributed plant 99 86 17 5

Experimental multi-species microbial (co)evolution results in local maladaptation 99 21 5

Emergent neutrality in consumer-resource dynamics 99 17 5

Antibiotics in microbial communities: an ecological frame of resistance 99 52 29 17 12 5

Shifts in evolutionary balance of microbial phenotypes under environmental changes 99 38 17 5

Toward a unified dilution effect theory: How competence, competition, and the transmission mechanism influence disease-diversity relationships 99 17 5

Species coexistence and overlapping distributions in a metacommunity are compatible with niche differences and competition at a local scale 99 17 5

Microbial species interactions determine community diversity in fluctuating environments 99 17 5

Does deterministic coexistence theory matter in a finite world? 99 17 5 4

Winter in water: Differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity 99 86 17 5

Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity have contrasting effects on the ecological functioning of bacterial communities 17 5

Targeted manipulation of abundant and rare taxa in the Daphnia magna microbiota with antibiotics impacts host fitness differentially 99 29 17 5

What is the storage effect, why should it occur in cancers, and how can it inform cancer therapy? 99 14 5

A simple linear relationship between resource availability and microbial community diversity 99 17 5

Fitness effects of competition within and between species change across species' ranges, and reveal limited local adaptation in rainforest Drosophila 99 21 17 5

Can constraint closure provide a generalized understanding of community dynamics in ecosystems? 99 38 17 5

Strong self-regulation and widespread facilitative interactions in phytoplankton communities 99 17 5

Predicting coexistence in experimental ecologicalcommunities 99 17 4

Soil-microbes-mediated invasional meltdown in plants 99 17 5

Quantifying microbially mediated fitness differences reveals the tendency for plant-soil feedbacks to drive species exclusion among California annual plants 99 17 5

Competitive hierarchies, antibiosis, and the distribution of bacterial life history traits in a microbiome 99 29 17 5

Niche complementarity among pollinators increases community-level plant reproductive success 99 17 5

The effects of environmental complexity on microbial community yield and structure 99 17 5

Exploring the niche concept in a simple metaorganism 7 5

Pollinators in food webs: Mutualistic interactions increase diversity, stability, and function in multiplex networks 99 17 5

Identity and provenance of neighbors, genotype-specific traits and abiotic stress affect intraspecific interactions in the annual legume Medicago truncatula 99 17 5

On the diversity of chemical power supply as a determinant of biological diversity 7 5

Evolutionary dynamics and diversification in changing environments 99 21 17 5

Viewing communities as coupled oscillators: elementary forms from Lotka and Volterra to Kuramoto 99 17 5

Defense versus growth in a hostile world - Lessons from phage and bacteria 99 17 5

Tractable models of ecological assembly 99 17 5

Disturbance-induced changes in size-structure promote coral biodiversity 99 17 5

Clumpy coexistence in phytoplankton: The role of functional similarity in community assembly 99 17 5

Influence of the ecological opportunity of interaction on the structure of host-parasite networks 99 17 5

Rapid evolution promotes fluctuation-dependent species coexistence 99 21 5

Self-organisation and persistence of antibiotic resistance in evolving plasmid communities 99 21 5

Intraspecific difference among herbivore lineages and their host-plant specialization drive the strength of trophic cascades 99 17 5

Rewiring of peatland plant-microbe networks outpaces species turnover 17 5

Eco-evolutionary interaction in competing phytoplankton: genotype sorting likely explains dominance shift and species responses to CO2 99 21 5

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of prior selfing rate promotes the coexistence without niche partitioning under reproductive interference 99 21 5

A minimal model for microbial biodiversity can reproduce experimentally observed ecological patterns 99 17 5

Predator diversity and thermal niche complementarity attenuate indirect effects of warming on prey survival 99 17 5

Pollinator niche partitioning and asymmetric facilitation contribute to the maintenance of diversity 99 17 5

Beyond a single patch: local and regional processes explain diversity patterns in a seagrass epifaunal metacommunity 17 5

Synchrony and perturbation transmission in trophic metacommunities 99 17 5

On the temporally flexible structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks 99 17 5

Community lifespan, niche expansion and the evolution of interspecific cooperation 99 21 5

Self-organized pattern formation increases functional diversity 99 17 5

Species coexistence in vegetation patterns facilitated by the interplay of spatial self-organisation and intraspecific competition 99 17 5

Axiomatic-deductive theory of competition of complete competitors: coexistence, exclusion and neutrality in one model 99 17 5

A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology 99 17 5 4

Ecological theory predicts ecosystem stressor interactions in freshwater ecosystems, but highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the additive null model 17 5 4

The Evolution and Fate of Diversity Under Hard and Soft Selection 21 5

Predicting N-strain coexistence from co-colonization interactions: epidemiology meets ecology and the replicator equation 99 38 5