Excited to share our latest research now out in @OikosJournal! 🌿 This paper leverages the anisotropy of environmental variation at habitat edges to disentangle community assembly drivers doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #Ecology #Metacommunity #SoilBiology #Biodiversity #DNAbarcoding #Oikos #Macrofauna

🌿The effect of species interactions on intraspecific trait variation (ITV) can be most clearly observed among rather than within populations, suggesting that ITV at this scale is important for coexistence and community assembly. 🔍 Read: buff.ly/D6F1Hjg

ICYMI: Energy and biomass distribution in soil food webs of temperate and tropical forests @natcomms.nature.com

Space-for-time substitution approaches in ecology do work! (at least in temperate grasslands) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper with many smart people, led by Nico Eisenhauer & Marie Sünemann @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, surveying the state of literature on the effects of soil biodiversity on ecosystem functioning www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The microbial keystone concept is a very cool topic in microbiome ecology. This review summarises mechanisms, prediction methods and implications, with "keystoneness" being highly context/time dependent + new methods approaches suggested. Very nice read! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the current issue of NEE, you can find our research on the community assembly mechanisms behind arthropod 🪲🕷️ biomass declines ⚖️📉 both as the original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and (new🌟) as research briefing by @ebelingae.bsky.social and myself: www.nature.com/articles/s41...