Karen C. Abbott

TL;DR: Current knowledge of transient dynamics is reviewed, showing that hitherto idiosyncratic and individual patterns can be classified into a coherent framework, with important general lessons and directions for future study.

TL;DR: It is shown that in many realistic scenarios, dispersal is expected to promote both synchrony and stability at once despite this apparent destabilising influence of synchrony, which is widely held that synchrony paradoxically prevents dispersal-induced stability.

TL;DR: Several main mechanisms leading to the emergence of long transients are revealed and hence lays the basis for a unifying theory in ecology.

TL;DR: The experimental results demonstrate that in this system neither disturbance nor propagule input alone was sufficient to maximize invasion success, and the interaction between these processes was critical for understanding how the S. muticum invasion is regulated in the short term.

TL;DR: This work presents a framework that describes how different forms of stochasticity combine to provide underlying and predictable structure in diverse communities, and proposes next steps that ecologists might use to explore the role of stoChasticity for structuring communities in theoretical and empirical systems, and thereby enhance the understanding of community dynamics.