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  • If organisms are involved in a perpetual struggle for existence, how is it that communities are so diverse? The traditional answer is the ecological niche but this has recently been challenged by the neutral theory of biodiversity, which explains coexistence with the equivalence of competitors. Here, theory and experimentation are integrated in order to explore this problem; the results show that diversity declines when niches are removed.

    • Jonathan M. Levine
    • Janneke HilleRisLambers
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 461, P: 254-257

  • Disentangling the various pathways by which climate change may drive community shifts in real-world ecosystems is challenging. Here the authors apply a trend attribution approach to a large dataset from the MASTIF database to assess the contribution of direct and indirect effects of climate on tree fecundity in North America, finding that the latter dominate trends by affecting tree growth and size and thereby fecundity.

    • James S. Clark
    • Robert Andrus
    • Roman Zlotin
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-11

  • Invasive brown treesnakes decimated the forest bird community on the island of Guam. Now, Rogers and colleagues document the indirect effects of the snake on trees, linking snake-initiated bird loss to reduced seed dispersal and plant recruitment on Guam compared to nearby uninvaded islands.

    • Haldre S. Rogers
    • Eric R. Buhle
    • Joshua J. Tewksbury
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-8

  • Analyses of the relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits across the tundra and over time show that community height increased with warming across all sites, whereas other traits lagged behind predicted rates of change.

    • Anne D. Bjorkman
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Evan Weiher
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 562, P: 57-62

  • Experimental data collected from 40 grasslands on 6 continents show that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant diversity; nutrient addition reduces local diversity through light limitation, and herbivory rescues diversity at sites where it alleviates light limitation.

    • Elizabeth T. Borer
    • Eric W. Seabloom
    • Louie H. Yang
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 508, P: 517-520