Scaling is a central theme in ecology, well this is my opinion, but there are others that think like me, for example Brian Enquist, that organized a symposium for the 100th anniversary of the Ecological Society of America Scaling in Ecology. He mentioned that two of the most influential papers from ESA were about scaling: Simon Levin The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology and J.H. Brown The Metabolic Theory of Ecology.
One can think of different ways that biodiversity can be regulated in the framework of food-webs or more generally networks of interactions:
Top-down: the effect of predation, hervibory, parasitism
Botton-up: food/nutrients
Disturbance:
In a more microscopic way could also have stabilizing influence or not
Trophic interactions
Competitive or negative interactions
Mutualistic or positive interactions
No interactions (Neutral)
I am thinking of writing in Spanish because Spanish is my mother language, but there seem to be not many people writing about ecological science in Spanish. In the end, I started to think in English and then write in English, so the next one should be in Spanish, who knows.
I have a sensation about metacommunity theory, it divides things too much. Each of the concepts in the following image tries to keep different processes in its own box.
Definitive answers are scarce in biology 1 2 but if we want the advance of ecological knowledge we should reach a point where we have a theory we can trust and can be used for prediction.
Besides that the use of experimental micro/mesocosmos has been criticized I advocate for its use in testing and generating ecological theory, using the following steps:
Do a experimental microcosm with a temporal and spatial homogeneous environment