Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Functional-approach studies are currently increasing in ecology. However, for zooplankton
communities, studies are mostly concentrated in marine environments. This study provides a …

Aim Understanding variation in biodiversity typically requires consideration of factors
operating at different spatial scales. Recently, ecologists and biogeographers have …

As human population size increases and cities become denser, several urban‐related
selection pressures increasingly affect species composition in both terrestrial and aquatic …

Aim Disentangling how stochastic and deterministic processes contribute to variation in beta
diversity is a common goal for ecologists and biogeographers. However, such studies are …

The metacommunity concept has been widely used to explain the biodiversity patterns at
various scales. It considers the influences of both local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic …

Environmental filtering and spatial processes have been associated with variation in
ecological communities and biodiversity; however, their relative importance on multiple …

Biocontrol agent, as a pollution-free and sustainable plant disease control method, can
inhibit the spread of soil-borne diseases and promote the growth of crops. However, there …

The difficulty of integrating multiple theories, data and methods has slowed progress
towards making unified inferences of ecological change generalizable across large spatial …

Recently, community ecology has emphasized the multi-facetted aspects of biological
diversity by linking species traits and the environment. Here, we explored environmental …