Facilitation of later-arriving species by early colonists is one of several mechanisms that together drive the directional changes in species composition observed in primary succession. However, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Little is known of how changes in plant function may influence adaptive traits amongst animals further up the food chain. We addressed the ...

A Guam ecologist recently mobilized efforts to characterize the vegetation that has recovered following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. University of Guam ecologist Thomas Marler recently ...