community structure and its manifestations has been the subject of a continuous debate, but
few attempts have been made to examine their single and joint effects in a compound
process model. 2. In this study, we tested four a priori hypotheses on the relative importance
of habitat heterogeneity (topography and soil) and internal clustering mechanisms such as
dispersal limitation on the species–area relationship (SAR) in two fully mapped 25‐ha plots …