Hot off the press! Check out the latest UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Open-Access publication by Andrew Rypel, revealing how ecosystem size affects community assembly via environmental stability, hydrology, and life-history filtering. A must-read for conservationists and ecologists! 

Rypel, A.L. 2023. Ecosystem size filters life‐history strategies to shape community assembly in lakes. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13925

Also check out the story behind the paper on the Animal Ecology In Focus blog, detailing Andrew Rypel's long search for rules on how fish communities are put together. The blog post, written by Andrew Rypel, offers the #StoryBehindthePaper for the research article recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In this study, Andrew Rypel fuses theories from island biogeography and life-history studies to understand how fish assemblages filter along a lake-size gradient.