Abstract
Editor's Note: In this edition of the Paper Trail, an outsider might surmise that the state of community ecology is vanity of vanities with enough theories to make one's head spin. Local vs. regional, deterministic vs. stochastic, and the list goes on. However, two individuals and an entire field would beg to differ and rightly so. Community ecology has a history of being very messy, yet patterns and trends soon emerge when a different view is taken based on a level of understanding and the use of research tools that perhaps the up and coming and established ecologists’ predecessors did not have in their day. Now, instead of opposition, these two researchers have been studying these earlier theories and have gone on to dig deeper through, for example, a Bromeliad Working Group and long-term natural microcosms. And, along the way, they are asking many more questions that will continue to stir up, stimulate, and help advance the messy field of community ecology.
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