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{"title":"Microbial interactions as modular: Implications for ecosystem dynamics and evolution","authors":"Alyssa Henderson,&nbsp;Olga T. Schubert,&nbsp;Simon van Vliet,&nbsp;Martin Ackermann","doi":"10.1002/ecm.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Microbial communities contribute to numerous processes that profoundly impact planetary and human health. They therefore hold potential for addressing many of today's pressing global challenges. Microbial ecosystems have been studied at many levels, ranging from the molecular processes of individual cells to the emergent properties and functions of the entire collective. One notable complexity of these ecosystems is that microbes are constantly engaged in interactions with their environment and other microbes, which in turn influences not only their own growth but also community function, assembly, and stability. While interactions are very often the subject of contemporary microbiology research, these studies often lack precise, mechanistically rooted characterizations of these interactions. In this article, we propose strategies to overcome such limitations by providing a conceptual framework for describing microbe–microbe interactions and discussing the implications of this framework for the study of microbial communities and their evolution. Starting from basic principles, we build a mechanistic description of microbial interactions that treats each interaction as a series of modular, interconnected subprocesses. We then examine how this modularity shapes microbial communities and their evolution, as well as how this modularity can improve our approaches for characterizing and mathematically modeling microbial ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":11505,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Monographs","volume":"96 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecm.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mammals' zoogeochemical effects change litter and soil biogeochemistry in a tropical rainforest","authors":"Letícia Gonçalves Ribeiro,&nbsp;Nacho Villar,&nbsp;Mateus Melo-Dias,&nbsp;Sérgio Nazareth,&nbsp;Mauro Galetti","doi":"10.1002/ecm.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While most research on nutrient cycling has focused on plant–soil interactions or soil decomposers, recent studies highlight the emerging role of terrestrial mammals in contributing to biogeochemical cycles, a field known as zoogeochemistry. More than half of all mammal species are found in tropical forests, ecosystems currently experiencing high rates of defaunation. In this context, ongoing defaunation may limit our understanding of the role mammals play in nutrient cycling in these diverse ecosystems. To investigate the effects of ground-dwelling mammals on nutrient cycling in tropical forests, we conducted a field experiment in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil using a long-term (14-year) mammal exclusion experiment. Over 1 year, we monitored terrestrial mammals, estimated their biomass using a mammalian biomass index, and collected litter and soil samples during the dry and wet seasons. The mammalian biomass index was dominated by large frugivores (peccaries, red brocket deer, and lowland tapir) but also included small- and medium-sized mammals. Season emerged as the dominant driver of variation in litter and soil properties, and spatial heterogeneity among plot pairs also accounted for a substantial portion of this variation. In contrast, the effects of mammalian biomass were more limited and interacted with seasonality. Mammalian biomass reduced litter lignin, increased litter diversity and potassium content across seasons, and increased soil pH. These changes likely represent short-term responses of belowground systems to the physical impacts of ground-dwelling frugivorous mammals, such as foraging and bioturbation, rather than long-term shifts in vegetation composition. Together, these results suggest that ground-dwelling mammals may accelerate nutrient cycling in tropical forests.</p>","PeriodicalId":11505,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Monographs","volume":"96 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecm.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148096662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Going round in cycles but going somewhere: Deciphering cyclical dynamics using Ecological Trajectory Analysis","authors":"Nicolas Djeghri,&nbsp;Anthony Sturbois,&nbsp;Pierre Hélaouët,&nbsp;Quentin Geissmann,&nbsp;Peggy Rimmelin-Maury,&nbsp;Aurélien Boyé,&nbsp;Olivier Gauthier,&nbsp;Miquel De Cáceres","doi":"10.1002/ecm.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Earth's ecological dynamics are largely rhythmic, tied to regular cycles such as seasons, lunar phases, days, or tides. Subdisciplines of ecology such as phenology have developed specific concepts and metrics adapted to describe and analyze cyclical dynamics, but they operate in a largely unidimensional framework. There is therefore a lack of suitable tools for describing cyclical ecological dynamics in multidimensional spaces. Here, we introduce Cyclical Ecological Trajectory Analysis (CETA), an extension of Ecological Trajectory Analysis, allowing for describing and comparing cyclical dynamics in a multidimensional context without dimensionality reduction. CETA provides metrics to quantify cycles' geometry and resemblance in a multidimensional space of interest and offers a multidimensional equivalent of the concept of phenological advance and delays. We provide four ecological examples demonstrating how CETA can be useful to study different cyclical dynamics (seasons, days, tides), using different data (community composition, environmental data) and in different contexts (observational or experimental). We also show how CETA can be articulated with methods of multiscale analysis for time series. We conclude by summarizing the advantages and limitations of the method, its wide range of potential applications, as well as its connections and synergies with other, already available, aspects of the Ecological Trajectory Analysis framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":11505,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Monographs","volume":"96 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecm.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148089707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Erratum for “Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ecm.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Suzuki, Kenta</span>, <span>Shinji Nakaoka</span>, <span>Shinji Fukuda</span>, and <span>Hiroshi Masuya</span>. <span>2021</span>. <span>Energy Landscape Analysis Elucidates the Multistability of Ecological Communities Across Environmental Gradients</span>. <i>Ecological Monographs</i> <span>91</span>(<span>3</span>): e01469. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1469.</p><p>In the HTML release, Equation (2) is given as shown below.</p><p>In the PDF release, Equation (2) is given as shown below.</p><p>In the HTML and PDF versions, <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mo>∑</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>j</mi>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mi>S</mi>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {sum}_{j=1}^S $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>and <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mo>∑</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>i</mi>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mi>M</mi>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {sum}_{i=1}^M $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> are not in the correct order. Additionally, in the PDF version, =1 at the beginning of the second line of the equation was a typesetting error and should have appeared at the end of the first line as <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mo>∑</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>i</mi>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mi>S</mi>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {sum}_{i=1}^S $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math></p>","PeriodicalId":11505,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Monographs","volume":"96 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecm.70054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148085706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating biotic interactions in niche analyses unravels patterns of community composition in clownfishes","authors":"Alberto García Jiménez,&nbsp;Antoine Guisan,&nbsp;Olivier Broennimann,&nbsp;Théo Gaboriau,&nbsp;Nicolas Salamin","doi":"10.1002/ecm.70062","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ecm.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mutualistic interactions play a fundamental role in shaping species distributions, driving niche differentiation, and structuring communities. Yet their influence on realized niches and patterns of coexistence remains poorly understood. In clownfishes, mutualism with sea anemones underpins their biogeography and ecological success, with species classified as generalists or specialists according to their host specificity. However, the extent to which host availability constrains or expands clownfish niches has remained unclear. Here we used ecological niche models (ENMs) across the Indo-Pacific to examine how host sea anemones shape clownfish realized niches and community composition. We integrated occurrence data with climatic and habitat predictors and refined estimates by incorporating host niches, quantifying changes in niche breadth, position, and overlap. We further developed a multilayered framework to account for host use within niche quantification, allowing us to assess patterns of resource overlap in communities spanning generalist–specialist dynamics. Our results reveal that mutualistic associations strongly shape clownfish realized niches, with specialists experiencing greater niche constraints than generalists due to their reliance on a limited set of hosts. Host availability emerges as a key driver of community structure, producing high ecological niche overlap among species that is modulated by host partitioning. This host-mediated differentiation facilitates coexistence by reducing resource overlap, with the degree of specialization playing a central role in sustaining clownfish biodiversity. Our study highlights how biotic interactions mediate species ecological niches and shape community assembly in an iconic mutualistic system. Beyond clownfishes, our framework offers a transferable approach to incorporate interacting species into ENMs, improving ecological interpretations and informing conservation efforts in other mutualistic systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":11505,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Monographs","volume":"96 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecm.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148039774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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