Andrea Giometto

TL;DR: A synthesis and standardization of methods will overcome shortcomings and challenges faced by past studies and also promote activities such as meta-analyses and distributed experiments conducted simultaneously across many different laboratories at a global scale.

TL;DR: This work experimentally disentangled the effect of local habitat capacity and dendritic connectivity on biodiversity in aquatic microcosm metacommunities by suitably arranging patch sizes within river-like networks and found that more connected communities that occupy a central position in the network exhibited higher species richness, irrespective of patch size arrangement.

TL;DR: It is shown experimentally that single-species mass distributions of unicellular eukaryotes covering different phyla exhibit both characteristic sizes and universal features over more than four orders of magnitude in mass.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared four methods to measure and express species interactions and compared their advantages and limitations to predict multispecies community dynamics and ecosystem functioning, including an extinction-based model, a relative yield model and two generalized Lotka-Volterra (LV) models.

TL;DR: Predictability of the key features of biological dispersal overcomes the inherent biological stochasticity and may be generalized, possibly providing a general predictive framework for biological invasions in natural environments.