N. J. B. Kraft

The paper examines latitudinal patterns in species aggregation and abundance, showing how these patterns affect coexistence in forests and introduces a framework to model their impact on extinction risk.

The paper quantifies microbially mediated fitness differences among California annual plants and finds that plant-soil feedbacks often drive species exclusion when species are otherwise competitively equivalent.

The paper develops an algorithm to select the minimum number of species for ecological restoration that maximizes functional richness and redundancy, enabling the restoration of multiple ecosystem services and resilience.

This paper defines higher order interactions (HOIs) in ecological systems and demonstrates their presence in simulated plant competition based on phenology differences.