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Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities by Levine, Jonathan M., Bascompte, Jordi, Adler, Peter B., Allesina, Stefano

“…The tremendous diversity of species in ecological communities has motivated a century of research into the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. However, much…”
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Large niche differences emerge at the recruitment stage to stabilize grassland coexistence by Chu, Chengjin, Adler, Peter B

“…Niche differences and average fitness differences jointly determine coexistence. However, little empirical information about the magnitude of these two…”
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An expanded modern coexistence theory for empirical applications by Ellner, Stephen P., Snyder, Robin E., Adler, Peter B., Hooker, Giles, Metcalf, Jessica

“…Understanding long‐term coexistence of numerous competing species is a longstanding challenge in ecology. Progress requires determining which processes and…”
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Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor by Kraft, Nathan J. B., Adler, Peter B., Godoy, Oscar, James, Emily C., Fuller, Steve, Levine, Jonathan M.

“…Summary One of the most pervasive concepts in the study of community assembly is the metaphor of the environmental filter, which refers to abiotic factors that…”
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Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition by Adler, Peter B., Smull, Danielle, Beard, Karen H., Choi, Ryan T., Furniss, Tucker, Kulmatiski, Andrew, Meiners, Joan M., Tredennick, Andrew T., Veblen, Kari E., Comita, Liza

“…Theory predicts that intraspecific competition should be stronger than interspecific competition for any pair of stably coexisting species, yet previous…”
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The Net Effect of Functional Traits on Fitness by Laughlin, Daniel C., Gremer, Jennifer R., Adler, Peter B., Mitchell, Rachel M., Moore, Margaret M.

“…Generalizing the effect of traits on performance across species may be achievable if traits explain variation in population fitness. However, testing…”
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Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies by Adler, Peter B., Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Compagnoni, Aldo, Hsud, Joanna S., Ray-Mukherjee, Jayanti, Mbeau-Ache, Cyril, Franco, Miguel

“…Ecologists seek general explanations for the dramatic variation in species abundances in space and time. An increasingly popular solution is to predict species…”
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Sensitivity of mean annual primary production to precipitation by Hsu, Joanna S., Powell, James, Adler, Peter B.

“…In many terrestrial ecosystems, variation in aboveground net primary production (ANPP) is positively correlated with variation in interannual precipitation…”
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Trait‐based tests of coexistence mechanisms by Adler, Peter B, Fajardo, Alex, Kleinhesselink, Andrew R, Kraft, Nathan J. B, Scherber, Christoph

“…Recent functional trait studies have shown that trait differences may favour certain species (environmental filtering) while simultaneously preventing…”
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The effects of intransitive competition on coexistence by Gallien, Laure, Zimmermann, Niklaus E., Levine, Jonathan M., Adler, Peter B., Wootton, Tim

“…Coexistence theory has been developed with an almost exclusive focus on interactions between two species, often ignoring more complex and indirect…”
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niche for neutrality by Adler, Peter B, HilleRisLambers, Janneke, Levine, Jonathan M

“…Ecologists now recognize that controversy over the relative importance of niches and neutrality cannot be resolved by analyzing species abundance patterns…”
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How to quantify the temporal storage effect using simulations instead of math by Ellner, Stephen P., Snyder, Robin E., Adler, Peter B.

“…The storage effect has become a core concept in community ecology, explaining how environmental fluctuations can promote coexistence and maintain biodiversity…”
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Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments by Borer, Elizabeth T., Harpole, W. Stanley, Adler, Peter B., Lind, Eric M., Orrock, John L., Seabloom, Eric W., Smith, Melinda D., Freckleton, Robert

“…Summary Advancing the field of ecology relies on understanding generalities and developing theories based on empirical and functional relationships that…”
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Coexistence of perennial plants: an embarrassment of niches by Adler, Peter B, Ellner, Stephen P, Levine, Jonathan M

“…Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1019-1029 Despite decades of research documenting niche differences between species, we lack a quantitative understanding of their…”
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Do plant–soil feedbacks promote coexistence in a sagebrush steppe? by Chung, Y. Anny, Monaco, Thomas A., Taylor, J. Bret, Adler, Peter B.

“…Recent studies have shown the potential for negative plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) to promote stable coexistence, but have not quantified the stabilizing effect…”
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Contrasting relationships between precipitation and species richness in space and time by Adler, Peter B., Levine, Jonathan M.

“…Future changes in precipitation regimes are likely to impact species richness in water-limited plant communities. Regional, spatial relationships between…”
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An exact version of Life Table Response Experiment analysis, and the R package exactLTRE by Hernández, Christina M., Ellner, Stephen P., Adler, Peter B., Hooker, Giles, Snyder, Robin E.

“…Matrix population models are frequently built and used by ecologists to analyse demography and elucidate the processes driving population growth or decline…”
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Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species? by Yenni, Glenda, Adler, Peter B., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Understanding why so many species are rare yet persistent remains a significant challenge for both theoretical and empirical ecologists. Yenni et al. (2012,…”
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Experimental manipulation of soil-surface albedo alters phenology and growth of Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) by Maxwell, Toby M., Germino, Matthew J., Romero, Seth, Porensky, Lauren M., Blumenthal, Dana M., Brown, Cynthia S., Adler, Peter B.

“…Purpose The sensitivity of wildland plants to temperature can be directly measured using experimental manipulations of temperature in situ. We show that soil…”
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Continuous assembly required: Perpetual species turnover in two‐trophic‐level ecosystems by Spaak, Jurg W., Adler, Peter B., Ellner, Stephen P.

“…Community assembly is often treated as deterministic, converging on one or at most a few possible stable endpoints. However, in nature, we typically observe…”
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