Concepts

The functioning of ecosystems including processes such as carbon and nutrient cycling and storage, community- and ecosystem-level responses, and overall ecosystem properties and processes

Variation in interspecific interactions across time periods over which organisms co-occur that leads to flexible network structure

Changes in network composition between treatments, partitioned into species turnover versus interaction rewiring components

Plant characteristics that reflect ecological strategies, including specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content

Movement of seeds away from parent plants through various mechanisms including wind, animals, and gravity

Predicts that species interactions should disappear at the stressful end of environmental gradients where abiotic conditions constrain species ranges

Theory providing mass-metabolism scaling rules that relate metabolic rate to organism mass through allometric relationships

Internal aboveground symbionts living within plant tissues that can produce alkaloids for plant defense