Research on individual trait variation has gained much attention because of its implication for ecosystem functions and community ecology. The effect of individual variation on population and community abundance (number of individuals) variation remains scarcely tested. Using two established ecological scaling laws (Taylor's law and abundance-size relationship), we derived a new scaling relatio...

Although researchers have pointed out relationships among members as being essential for the building of commitment towards a community, there is still insufficient attention placed on this in virtual community research. Furthermore, the effect of size on this relational aspect of virtual community has also been given little emphasis in the existing literature despite being acknowledged by exta...

Offspring size is a trait of fundamental importance that affects the ecology and evolution of a range of organisms. Despite the pervasive impact of offspring size for those offspring, the influence of offspring size on other species in the broader community remains unexplored. Such community-wide effects of offspring size are likely, but they have not been anticipated by theory or explored empi...