Vincent Calcagno

TL;DR: It is shown that 84% of the 147 grassland plant species studied in 17 biodiversity experiments promoted ecosystem functioning at least once, and many species are needed to maintain multiple functions at multiple times and places in a changing world.

TL;DR: In this paper, an R package for automated model selection and multi-model inference with glm and related functions is presented. But it is not suitable for large candidate sets by avoiding memory limitation, facilitating parallelization and providing, in addition to exhaustive screening, a compiled genetic algorithm method.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, preemption does not impede coexistence as one could presume from previous studies, but can actually increase the likelihood of coexistence.

TL;DR: Results from a large-scale survey of the submission process covering 923 scientific journals from the biological sciences in years 2006 to 2008 reveal how authors strategically submit their research.

TL;DR: It is shown that even simple models of intra- and inter-specific ecological interactions can predict a positive effect of diversity on diversification: adaptive radiations may require a threshold number of species before kicking-off, and two distinct pathways connecting diversity to diversification are identified, involving character displacement and the positive diversity-productivity relationship.