Table of contents : Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Incorporating Ontogenetic Niche Shifts into Hybrid Community Dynamics (Takefumi Nakazawa)....Pages 3-18 Effects of Rapid Evolution on Population Cycles and Extinction in Predator–Prey Systems (Masato Yamamichi)....Pages 19-49 The Possibility that the Evolution of Sexual Traits Stabilizes Ecological Communities (Kazuya Kobayashi)....Pages 51-62 Spatiality and Community Stability (Akihiko Mougi)....Pages 63-77 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 Direct and Indirect Effects of Facilitation and Competition in Ecological Communities: Population Persistence, Coexistence, and Species Diversity Along the Stress Gradients (Gaku Takimoto)....Pages 81-108 Mathematical Modeling on Microbes and Their Roles in Community and Ecosystem: How to Handle Microbial Diversity in Modeling? (Takeshi Miki)....Pages 109-157 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 Ecology and Evolution of Density-Dependence (Kazutaka Kawatsu)....Pages 161-174 Interaction-Type Diversity and Community Stability (Akihiko Mougi)....Pages 175-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Forecasting Ecological Time Series Using Empirical Dynamic Modeling: A Tutorial for Simplex Projection and S-map (Masayuki Ushio, Kazutaka Kawatsu)....Pages 193-213