Are there general laws in ecology

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Oikos

• Publication date

  1999-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/3546712
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Local and Regional

  2015cited by this paper
• Complex Interactions in Lake Communities

  2011cited by this paper
• Species diversity

  2001cited by this paper
• Community ecology in a changing world

  2000cited by this paper
• Untangling Ecological Complexity

  2000cited by this paper
• Habitat fragmentation

  1999cited by this paper
• The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data

  1999cited by this paper
• Using local–regional richness plots to test for species saturation: pitfalls and potentials

  1999cited by this paper
• A critique for macroecology

  1999cited by this paper
• Unsaturation and regional influences on species richness in ecological communities: A review of the evidence

  1999cited by this paper
• The trophic cascade in lakes

  1998cited by this paper
• Spatial dynamics of two competing specialist parasitoids in a host metapopulation

  1998cited by this paper
• 11. Local and Regional Processes as Controls of Species Richness

  1998cited by this paper
• Ornithological atlas data: a review of uses and limitations

  1998cited by this paper
• LIZARDS REDUCE SPIDER SPECIES RICHNESS BY EXCLUDING RARE SPECIES

  1998cited by this paper
• Why More Productive Sites Have More Species: An Experimental Test of Theory Using Tree‐Hole Communities

  1998cited by this paper
• Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: tests of causal hypotheses.

  1998cited by this paper
• Metapopulation dynamics, abundance, and distribution in a microecosystem

  1998cited by this paper
• Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity. Area Matters, but How Much?

  1998cited by this paper
• Rapoport's rule: time for an epitaph?

  1998cited by this paper
• Small Is Beautiful, and Very Strange

  1998cited by this paper
• Non-interactive fish communities in the coastal streams of North-western France

  1998cited by this paper
• Some Methodological Issues in Macroecology

  1998cited by this paper
• Species-range size distributions: products of speciation, extinction and transformation

  1998cited by this paper
• Impact of a catastrophic hurricane on island populations

  1998cited by this paper
• A conceptual model of land conversion processes: predictions and evidence from a microlandscape experiment with grassland insects

  1998cited by this paper
• Ecological Science and Statistical Paradigms: At the Threshold

  1998cited by this paper
• Ecological Science and Statistical Paradigms

  1998cited by this paper
• Effects of habitat fragmentation on carabid beetles: experimental evidence

  1998cited by this paper
• Global patterns of tree species richness in moist forests : another look

  1998cited by this paper
• Explaining the latitudinal gradient anomaly in ichneumonid species richness: evidence from butterflies

  1998cited by this paper
• Species Diversity in Space and Time

  1997cited by this paper
• Community variability increases with time

  1997cited by this paper
• The relationship between local and regional species richness : comparing biotas with different evolutionary histories

  1997cited by this paper
• Local and regional species richness in North American lacustrine fish

  1997cited by this paper
• Metapopulation biology: Ecology, genetics, and evolution

  1997cited by this paper
• THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOCAL AND REGIONAL DIVERSITY

  1997cited by this paper
• Age, area and avian diversification

  1997cited by this paper
• 7 – From Metapopulation Dynamics to Community Structure: Some Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity

  1997cited by this paper
• Regional Species Pools and the Assembly of Local Ecological Communities

  1997cited by this paper
• From Metapopulation Dynamics to Community Structure

  1997cited by this paper
• EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF FOOD WEBS: COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN TEMPORARY PONDS

  1997cited by this paper
• Uniting Two General Patterns in the Distribution of Species

  1997cited by this paper
• Anolis lizards of the Caribbean : ecology, evolution, and plate tectonics

  1997cited by this paper
• Spatial ecology : the role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions

  1997cited by this paper
• Species Diversity and Latitudes: Listening to Area's Signal

  1997cited by this paper
• Dection of Direct Versus Indirect Effects: Were Experiments Long Enough?

  1997cited by this paper
• Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution

  1997cited by this paper
• Multitrophic Interactions in Terrestrial Systems

  1997cited by this paper
• Local versus global diversity of microorganisms : cryptic diversity of ciliated protozoa

  1997cited by this paper
• The relative of species pools in determining plant species richness: an alternative explanation of species coexistence?

  1997cited by this paper
• Effects on population persistence: the interaction between environmental noise colour, intraspecific competition and space

  1997cited by this paper
• Interspecific abundance-range size relationships: An appraisal of mechanisms

  1997cited by this paper
• The larger area of the tropics does not explain latitudinal gradients in species diversity

  1997cited by this paper
• Species Richness of Reef-Building Corals Determined by Local and Regional Processes

  1996cited by this paper
• ECOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN THE OLD WORLD LEAF WARBLERS (GENUS PHYLLOSCOPUS): A PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE

  1996cited by this paper
• Challenges in the Quest for Keystones

  1996cited by this paper
• Corncrake Pie and Prediction in Ecology

  1996cited by this paper
• Ecology, evolution and 1 f -noise.

  1996cited by this paper
• Patterns in Ecology

  1996cited by this paper
• The species pool and its relation to species richness : evidence from Estonian plant communities

  1996cited by this paper
• Species Diversity in Space and Time.

  1996cited by this paper
• Population abundances, geographic ranges and conservation: 1994 Witherby Lecture

  1996cited by this paper
• Three competing models for predicting the size of species pools : a test using eastern North American wetlands

  1996cited by this paper
• Spatial patterns in the species richness of birds in the New World

  1996cited by this paper
• Paleobiology, community ecology, and scales of ecological pattern.

  1996cited by this paper
• Insect species diversity, abundance and body size relationships

  1996cited by this paper
• Global patterns in the establishment and distribution of exotic birds

  1996cited by this paper
• Devastation of prey diversity by experimentally introduced predators in the field

  1996cited by this paper
• Simplifying the Jargon of Community Ecology: A Conceptual Approach

  1996cited by this paper
• Spatial patterns in the body sizes of bird species in the New World

  1996cited by this paper
• Community Structure of Desert Small Mammals: Comparisons Across Four Continents

  1996cited by this paper
• Structure of the parasitoid communities of grass-feeding chalcid wasps

  1995cited by this paper
• H. A. GLEASON'S ‘INDIVIDUALISTIC CONCEPT’ AND THEORY OF ANIMAL COMMUNITIES: A CONTINUING CONTROVERSY

  1995cited by this paper
• Explaining local species diversity

  1995cited by this paper
• Marine rocky shores and community ecology : an experimentalist's perspective

  1995cited by this paper
• Latitudinal gradients in North American braconid wasp species richness and biology

  1995cited by this paper
• Species Diversity in Space and Time

  1995cited by this paper
• Coexistence of Banksia species in southwestern Australia: the role of regional and local processes

  1995cited by this paper
• Indirect effects in marine rocky intertidal interaction webs: patterns and importance

  1995cited by this paper
• The investigation of saturation in the species richness of communities: some comments on methodology

  1995cited by this paper
• Unsaturated Fish Communities in African Rivers

  1995cited by this paper
• M. A. Huston, Biological Diversity: the coexistence of species on changing landscapes . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36930-4 (pbk). 681 + xix. pages. £24.95.

  1995cited by this paper
• Global scale patterns of fish species richness in rivers

  1995cited by this paper
• Geographical Population Analysis: Tools for the Analysis of Biodiversity

  1994cited by this paper
• Regional versus local helminth parasite richness in British freshwater fish: saturated or unsaturated parasite communities?

  1994cited by this paper
• Biodiversity in Australia compared with other continents

  1994cited by this paper
• Reversed latitudinal gradient in species richness of sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)

  1994cited by this paper
• The Nature and Consequences of Indirect Effects in Ecological Communities

  1994cited by this paper
• Parasitoid community ecology

  1994cited by this paper
• Biological diversity : the coexistence of species on changing landscapes

  1994cited by this paper
• Applications of the Hertzsprung-Russell star chart to ecology: reflections on the 21(st) birthday of Geographical Ecology.

  1994cited by this paper
• Habitat Fragmentation, Species Loss, and Biological Control

  1994cited by this paper
• The Keystone Species Concept: Variation in Interaction Strength in a Rocky Intertidal Habitat

  1994cited by this paper
• EFFECTS OF TOP AND INTERMEDIATE PREDATORS IN A TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEB

  1994cited by this paper
• Species diversity in ecological communities: edited by Robert E. Ricklefs and Dolph Schluter University of Chicago Press, 1993. $105.00 hbk, $35.00 pbk (414 pages) ISBN 0 226 71822 0/0 226 71823 9

  1994cited by this paper
• Food webs: theory and reality

  1993cited by this paper
• Population oscillations of boreal rodents: regulation by mustelid predators leads to chaos

  1993cited by this paper
• The new atlas of breeding birds in Britain and Ireland 1988-1991

  1993cited by this paper
• Energy supply and patterns of species richness on local and regional scales

  1993cited by this paper

• A conceptual framework for the temporal dynamics of spatial environmental heterogeneity–biodiversity relationships

  2026cites this paper
• Forest canopy insects are safer from predators in the tropics than at higher latitudes.

  2026cites this paper
• Eaten alive: how plants cope with sequential herbivory.

  2026cites this paper
• Macroecological approaches for the prediction of zoonotic disease risk

  2026cites this paper
• Habitat structure at multiple scales drives the occupancy of threatened insectivorous birds in the Atlantic Forest

  2026cites this paper
• Developing the structure of laws in biology

  2025cites this paper
• Where do “process‐oriented” community ecologists go? In search of general laws that are just “good enough”

  2025cites this paper
• Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand

  2025cites this paper
• Regional and local factors control of beetles’ community composition in arid steppes patagonia

  2025cites this paper
• Spatial Factors Shape Taxonomic and Functional Beta‐Diversity in Water‐Filled Tree Holes in Different Biogeographical Regions

  2025cites this paper
• Janzen's mountain passes hypothesis in a changing world: pitfalls and opportunities

  2025cites this paper
• Assembling a late‐successional lichen community by long‐distance dispersal: Lessons for restoration

  2025cites this paper
• Influence of landscape composition on spatiotemporal interactions between sympatric canids

  2025cites this paper
• Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara

  2025cites this paper
• Reef fish community structure across an ecological transition zone.

  2025cites this paper
• Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology

  2025cites this paper
• Experimental Immigration Mediates Ecological Selection and Drift in Monarch Microbiome Assembly

  2025cites this paper
• A practical guide to characterising ecological coexistence

  2025cites this paper
• Allee Effects and Coexistence.

  2025cites this paper
• Response of Rodent Metacommunities in Desert Areas to Fluctuations in Climatic Conditions

  2025cites this paper
• Keystone Predation: What Is It, and Is It Supported by Empirical Evidence?

  2025cites this paper
• Ecological Insights From Camera Trapping Span Biological Taxa, and the Globe

  2025cites this paper
• The scaling of seed‐dispersal specialization in interaction networks across levels of organization

  2025cites this paper
• Positive effects of forest fragmentation per se on bryophyte diversity in subtropical fragmented forests: evidence from land-bridge islands

  2025cites this paper
• A modeling approach to quantify ecological dynamics and functional structures of paleocommunities

  2025cites this paper
• Networks in Aquatic Communities Collapse Upon Neonicotinoid‐Induced Stress

  2025cites this paper
• Reconciling Variability in Multiple Stressor Effects Using Environmental Performance Curves

  2025cites this paper
• Evaluating the role of frequency‐dependent selection in controlling the expansion of clonal aggregations in the tropical forest's understorey: Insights from a decade‐long experiment

  2025cites this paper
• Realising the potential of interoperable data products to improve the outlook for marine biodiversity: Lessons from the European marine observation and data network

  2025cites this paper
• Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?

  2025cites this paper
• On Local Species Saturation of Synanthropic Plant Communities in the Western Caucasus and the Role of Alien Species in Its Achievement

  2025cites this paper
• Geoclimatic and morphological heterogeneity explains genetic differentiation between the Himalayas and the Hengduan Mountains in Gaultheria series Trichophyllae (Ericaceae)

  2025cites this paper
• ESA 2024 Inspire Session: Experiences and Recommendations from Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students and Professionals in Field Ecology

  2025cites this paper
• The division of food space among mammalian species on biomes

  2025cites this paper
• Assembly Graph as the Rosetta Stone of Ecological Assembly.

  2025cites this paper
• Benthic losers and winners in a tidal bay since the 1920s

  2025cites this paper
• Effects of landscape pattern change on waterbird diversity in Xianghai Nature Reserve

  2025cites this paper
• Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales

  2025cites this paper
• Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa

  2025cites this paper
• Mesurer et modéliser les communautés végétales tropicales. Ressorts et tensions d'une ingénierie des traits fonctionnels

  2025cites this paper
• Complexity and interpretability in global change ecology

  2025cites this paper
• Patch-Burn Grazing is Similar to Annual Burning in Effects on Belowground Invertebrates in Tallgrass Prairie

  2025cites this paper
• Introducing evascape, a model-based soundscape assembler: impact of background sounds on biodiversity monitoring with ecoacoustic indices

  2025cites this paper
• Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems

  2025cites this paper
• The Limits of Inference in Complex Systems: When Stochastic Models Become Indistinguishable

  2025cites this paper
• Representativeness of the Natura 2000 network for preserving plant biodiversity in the European Union.

  2025cites this paper
• Unraveling the temporal dependence of ecological interaction measures

  2025cites this paper
• Decoupling both local and global abundance from global range size, challenging the abundance-occupancy relationship in birds

  2025cites this paper
• Re-evaluating Heterogeneity in Evidence Synthesis

  2025cites this paper
• Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change.

  2025cites this paper
• Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation

  2025cites this paper
• Temperature and Biodiversity Regulate the Robustness of Plant–Microbe Networks in Natural Forests at Large Scale

  2025cites this paper
• Diversity and turnover in moth assemblages in rainforests on a remote oceanic island

  2024cites this paper
• Community connectivity and local heterogeneity explain animal species co-occurrences within pond communities.

  2024cites this paper
• Influence of canopy structural complexity on urban woodland butterfly species richness

  2024cites this paper
• Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions

  2024cites this paper
• Understanding marine biodiversity patterns and drivers: The fall of Icarus

  2024cites this paper
• Priority effects alter microbiome composition and increase abundance of probiotic taxa in treefrog tadpoles

  2024cites this paper
• Terrestrial subsidies and light affect an aquatic micro‐ecosystem in unexpected ways

  2024cites this paper
• Developing a predictive science of the biosphere requires the integration of scientific cultures

  2024cites this paper
• A nature-positive future with biological invasions: theory, decision support and research needs

  2024cites this paper
• Research needs on the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship in drylands

  2024cites this paper
• Predicting time‐at‐depth weighted biodiversity patterns for sharks of the North Pacific

  2024cites this paper
• MetaIBM: A Python-based library for individual-based modelling of eco-evolutionary dynamics in spatial-explicit metacommunities

  2024cites this paper
• Rapid taxonomic categorization of short, abundant virus sequences for ecological analyses

  2024cites this paper
• Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway

  2024cites this paper
• Effecting change in ecology

  2024cites this paper
• Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology

  2024cites this paper
• Trans*ient Worlds

  2024cites this paper
• Landscape Effects on Local Species Richness of Woody Specialists in Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest of Taiwan

  2024cites this paper
• A Roadmap for the Future Research of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia Population in Poland

  2024cites this paper
• New data on spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the islands of the Strait of Sicily (Southern Italy) with taxonomic notes on Poecilochroa loricata Kritscher, 1996 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and eight new records for Europe

  2024cites this paper
• Predicting and Prioritising Community Assembly: Learning Outcomes via Experiments.

  2024cites this paper
• What is the value of agrobiodiversity in southern Europe?

  2024cites this paper
• Microhabitat and seasonal influence on bess beetle (Coleoptera: Passalidae) assemblage in Altitudinal Atlantic Forest

  2024cites this paper
• Systematic and persistent bias against introduced species

  2024cites this paper
• Using joint species distribution modelling to identify climatic and non‐climatic drivers of Afrotropical ungulate distributions

  2024cites this paper
• Area- and latitude- shaped shorebird diversity patterns reveal constraints of migratory bottlenecks along the Yellow sea coast of China

  2024cites this paper
• A historical contingency hypothesis for population ecology

  2024cites this paper
• Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient

  2024cites this paper
• Macroecological patterns in experimental microbial communities

  2024cites this paper
• Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities.

  2024cites this paper
• Selection dictates the distance pattern of similarity in trees and soil fungi across forest ecosystems

  2024cites this paper
• Global heterogeneity of latitudinal patterns in herbivory between native and exotic plants

  2024cites this paper
• How and why species are rare: towards an understanding of the ecological causes of rarity

  2024cites this paper
• Peak beta diversity occurs at regional spatial grains

  2024influential citation
• Deep biogeographic barriers explain divergent global vertebrate communities

  2024cites this paper
• The Composition and Diversity of Soil Microbial Communities Associated With the Invasive Plant Solidago canadensis Vary Across Locations and Time Since Invasion

  2024cites this paper
• Dynamic fine-tuning of anti-predator behaviour in snowshoe hares illustrates the context dependence of risk effects.

  2024cites this paper
• Wolves, otters, ungulates, and a promising path for ecology

  2023cites this paper
• Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science

  2023cites this paper
• Enhancing the predictability of ecology in a changing world: A call for an organism-based approach

  2023cites this paper
• Integrating animal physiology into the adaptive management of restored landscapes

  2023cites this paper
• Long-term monitoring in transition: Resolving spatial mismatch and integrating multistate occupancy data

  2023cites this paper
• A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients

  2023cites this paper
• Distinct Ecological Processes Mediate Domain-Level Differentiation in Microbial Spatial Scaling

  2023cites this paper
• Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season

  2023cites this paper
• Mapping rewilding potential – a systematic approach to prioritise areas for rewilding in human-dominated regions

  2023cites this paper
• Geographic range size and species morphology determines the organization of sponge host-guest interaction networks across tropical coral reefs

  2023cites this paper
• Limited theoretical and empirical evidence that response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

  2023cites this paper