Timothy J. Bartley

TL;DR: It is argued that generalists’ responses present a powerful and underutilized approach to understanding and predicting the consequences of climate change and may serve as much-needed early warning signals for monitoring the looming impacts of global climate change on entire ecosystems.

TL;DR: It is argued that winter periods of reduced temperature and light could play an underappreciated role in mediating the coexistence of species, and if winter is a driver of niche differences that weaken competition between, relative to within species, then shrinking winter periods could threaten coexistence by tipping the scales in favour of certain sets of species over others.

TL;DR: This chapter argues that the comprehensive integration of multiple complementary tools within the explicit context of ecological networks is essential for providing mechanistic insight into invasion processes and their impact across organizational levels.

TL;DR: It is argued that winter periods of reduced temperature and light could play an underappreciated role in mediating the coexistence of species, and if winter is a driver of niche differences that weaken competition among species, then shrinking winter periods could threaten coexistence by tipping the scales in favor of certain sets of species over others.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework is developed that maps the landscape of possible EcoReality to highlight where fundamental ecological processes can be considered in future transplant experiments, including recipient host environment and microbiome state.