Niv DeMalach

The paper tests two hypotheses about how physical disturbance affects biodiversity, finding that early disturbance increases diversity by weakening competition, while late disturbance reduces it through demographic effects.

The paper presents a mechanistic framework explaining the facilitation-to-competition transition in plant interactions along rainfall gradients, showing it depends on resource availability and woody density.

The paper shows that drought timing affects flowering phenology directly and through competition in plant communities.

The paper examines how stochasticity and heterogeneity affect tipping points in ecological models, finding they reduce the likelihood of alternative stable states and make transitions less abrupt.