Feng Hsun Chang

TL;DR: 11 basic assumptions about pollution tolerance of TVs of benthic macroinvertebrates were found to be supported despite regional variability, and development and the reporting of how they are assigned need to be more rigorous and be better described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare five different empirical methods, with the aim of providing a practical guide for empiricists who want to predict coexistence among species, including two phenomenological methods, two mechanistic methods, and a fifth method that does not yield ND and RFD but describes the impacts of those forces within communities.

TL;DR: It is shown that there are important tradeoffs between mechanistic methods, which require detailed understanding of species niches and physiology but are more tractable experimentally, and phenomenological methods which do not require this detailed information but can be impractical for some study designs.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the ratio of the grazing mortality of the large size category to that of the small size category best explains the variation of NBSS slopes across environments, suggesting that higher grazing deaths of large microphytoplankton may release the small phytoplANKton from grazing, which in turn leads to a steeperNBSS slope.

TL;DR: This work shows that IGP can indeed decrease or increase basal resource density depending on its strength, and the impacts of IGP on resource density is potentially more complex than previously thought.