Search Results - "Spaak, Jurg W."

Intuitive and broadly applicable definitions of niche and fitness differences by Spaak, Jurg W., De Laender, Frederik, Metcalf, Jessica

“…Explaining nature’s biodiversity is a key challenge for science. To persist, populations must be able to grow faster when rare, a feature called negative…”
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Shifts of community composition and population density substantially affect ecosystem function despite invariant richness by Spaak, Jurg W., Baert, Jan M., Baird, Donald J., Eisenhauer, Nico, Maltby, Lorraine, Pomati, Francesco, Radchuk, Viktoriia, Rohr, Jason R., Van den Brink, Paul J., De Laender, Frederik, Young, Hillary

“…There has been considerable focus on the impacts of environmental change on ecosystem function arising from changes in species richness. However, environmental…”
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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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The spatiotemporal profile and adaptation determine the joint effects and interactions of multiple stressors by Streib, Lucas, Spaak, Jurg W., Kloft, Marius, Schäfer, Ralf B.

“…Background Biodiversity is declining worldwide as ecosystems are increasingly threatened by multiple stressors associated with anthropogenic global change…”
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Food Web Uncertainties Influence Predictions of Climate Change Effects on Soil Carbon Sequestration in Heathlands by Reyns, Wouter, Rineau, Francois, Spaak, Jürg W., Franken, Oscar, Berg, Matty P., Van Der Plas, Fons, Bardgett, Richard D., Beenaerts, Natalie, De Laender, Frederik

“…Carbon cycling models consider soil carbon sequestration a key process for climate change mitigation. However, these models mostly focus on abiotic soil…”
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Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels by Song, Chuliang, Spaak, Jurg W.

“…Ecological communities encompass rich diversity across multiple trophic levels. While modern coexistence theory has been widely applied to understand community…”
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Building modern coexistence theory from the ground up: The role of community assembly by Spaak, Jurg W., Schreiber, Sebastian J.

“…Modern coexistence theory (MCT) is one of the leading methods to understand species coexistence. It uses invasion growth rates—the average, per‐capita growth…”
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Niche differences, not fitness differences, explain predicted coexistence across ecological groups by Buche, Lisa, Spaak, Jurg W., Jarillo, Javier, De Laender, Frederik

“…Understanding the drivers of species coexistence is essential in ecology. Niche and fitness differences (i.e. how species limit themselves compared to others…”
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Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences by Spaak, Jurg W., Carpentier, Camille, De Laender, Frederik, Mayfield, Margaret

“…A key question in ecology is what limits species richness. Modern coexistence theory presents the persistence of species as a balance between niche differences…”
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Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory by Spaak, Jurg W, Adler, Peter B, Ellner, Stephen P

“…AbstractMany potential mechanisms promote species coexistence, but we know little about their relative importance. To compare multiple mechanisms, we modeled a…”
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Towards mechanistic integration of the causes and consequences of biodiversity by Wang, Shaopeng, Hong, Pubin, Adler, Peter B., Allan, Eric, Hautier, Yann, Schmid, Bernhard, Spaak, Jurg W., Feng, Yanhao

“…Understanding the links between causes and consequences of biodiversity is key to achieving conservation of both biodiversity and its functions, yet previous…”
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Different measures of niche and fitness differences tell different tales by Spaak, Jurg W., Ke, Po‐Ju, Letten, Andrew D., De Laender, Frederik

“…In modern coexistence theory, species coexistence can either arise via strong niche differences or weak fitness differences. Having a common currency for…”
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Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods by Olusoji, Oluwafemi D., Barabás, György, Spaak, Jurg W., Fontana, Simone, Neyens, Thomas, De Laender, Frederik, Aerts, Marc

“…Individual‐level trait diversity has been identified as an essential component of trait diversity (TD), influencing community assembly and structure…”
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The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences by Spaak, Jurg W., Millet, Remi, Ke, Po-Ju, Letten, Andrew D., De Laender, Frederik

“…The niche and fitness differences of modern coexistence theory separate mechanisms into stabilizing and equalizing components. Although this decomposition can…”
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Mapping species niche and fitness differences for communities with multiple interaction types by Spaak, Jürg W., Godoy, Oscar, De Laender, Frederik

“…Modern coexistence theory (MCT) holds the potential to study the ability of species to avoid extinction (i.e. to persist) across community types but is rarely…”
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cyanoFilter: An R package to identify phytoplankton populations from flow cytometry data using cell pigmentation and granularity by Olusoji, Oluwafemi D., Spaak, Jurg W., Holmes, Mark, Neyens, Thomas, Aerts, Marc, De Laender, Frederik

“…Flow cytometry is often employed in ecology to measure traits and population size of bacteria and phytoplankton. This technique allows measuring millions of…”
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