Ecography has published the last paper of Francesco’s PhD Clara titled “A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities”. In this study, Clara explores how dominant species contribute to community stability. By applying Taylor’s power law—a fundamental ecological scaling relationship (σ2 = aμᵇ)—the study shows that dominant species are often relatively more stable than subordinate ones, generating a widespread “dominance effect” that enhances community stability. This pattern was especially strong in cold, seasonal climates and in communities dominated by woody, large-seeded species with resource-conservative strategies. The results highlight a previously underappreciated mechanism of ecosystem stability and identify the scaling exponent of Taylor’s power law as a powerful new indicator of the stabilizing role of dominant species across global ecosystems.