Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a
pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes as …

To characterize microbiomes and other ecological assemblages, ecologists routinely
sequence and compare loci that differ among focal taxa. Counts of these sequences convey …

Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change
explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme wildfire weather will …

Molecular ecology regularly requires the analysis of count data that reflect the relative abundance
of features of a composition (eg, taxa in a community, gene transcripts in a tissue). The …

Disturbance patterns strongly influence plant community structure. What remains less clear,
particularly at a mechanistic level, is how changes in disturbance cycles alter successional …

While it is well established that facilitation and competition are important structuring forces
in plant communities, a clear understanding of the interactions between them and how they …

Ecosystems may shift abruptly when the effects of climate change and disturbance interact,
and landscapes with regularly patterned vegetation may be especially vulnerable to abrupt …

Smoke from forest fires can persist in the environment for weeks and while there is a substantial
amount of literature examining the effects of smoke exposure on seed germination, the …

Microbial communities in the rhizosphere are distinct from those in soils and are influenced
by stochastic and deterministic processes during plant development. These communities …

Wildfire activity has been increasing in forests of western North America over the past
several decades. However, the biogeochemical effects of changing fire regimes are poorly …