Dominant species are the most abundant species in a community, exerting a strong influence over the occurrence and distribution of other species. In contrast, keystone species have effects on ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

An individual in a community interacts with and ... (Figure 3). These species abundance distributions are one type of pattern that neutral models have been very good at predicting.

There are two major types of ecological succession ... followed by shrubs and a variety of tree species, until eventually the community that existed before the fire is present again. A climax ...