Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition
and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community …

The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most widely studied patterns in ecology,
yet no consensus has been reached about its underlying causes. We argue that the …

Losses and gains in species diversity affect ecological stability 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 – 7 and the
sustainability of ecosystem functions and services 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 – 13 . Experiments and …

Forecasts of ecological dynamics in changing environments are increasingly important, and
are available for a plethora of variables, such as species abundance and distribution, …

Natural control of invertebrate crop pests has the potential to complement or replace conventional
insecticide-based practices, but its mainstream application is hampered by predictive …

Whether or not communities of microbial eukaryotes are structured in the same way as bacteria
is a general and poorly explored question in ecology. Here, we investigated this question …

Understanding the origins of biodiversity has been an aspiration since the days of early
naturalists. The immense complexity of ecological, evolutionary, and spatial processes, however, …

Mate choice for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) compatibility has been found in
several taxa, although rarely in birds. MHC is a crucial component in adaptive immunity and by …

A bacterial community may be resistant to environmental disturbances if some of its species
show metabolic flexibility and physiological tolerance to the changing conditions. …

… We expand the model by Pontarp et al. (2015) to multiple traits and we simulate the evolutionary
… The specific value of 0.1 was chosen following Pontarp et al. (2015). Smaller thresholds …