Aim Tree size distributions are an emergent feature of forest dynamics across space and time. Theory suggests that undisturbed forests exhibit a size‐abundance distribution captured by a power‐law relationship with a near‐2 slope. We aimed to quantify how disturbances systematically and predictably cause deviations from this expected pattern. Location Contiguous United States. Time Period 2001–2023. Major Taxa Studied Diverse...

Green sea turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) face many threats from anthropogenic activity and are listed as Endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. They spend the majority of their lives in coastal foraging areas, and show strong fidelity to narrow foraging ranges. Understanding the foraging ecology of green turtles is therefore important for their management and con...

Traditional models of disease evolution are based upon the deterministic competition between strains that confer complete cross‐immunity, and predict the selection of strains with higher basic reproductive ratios ( R 0 ). In contrast, evolution in a stochastic setting is determined by a complex mixture of influences. Here, to isolate the impact of stochasticity, we constrain all competing strains to have an equal basic reprodu...