Ecological, evolutionary, spatial and neutral theories make distinct predictions and provide
distinct explanations for the mechanisms that control the relationship between diversity and …

Diversity-biomass studies across (sub-) tropical forest strata have been explored, but our
understanding on how multiple facets of forest diversity and abiotic factors regulate …

The rhizospheric microbial community is one of the major environmental factors affecting the
distribution and fitness of plants. Ancient wild tea plants are rare genetic resource distributed …

Species-based approaches to the analysis of changes in successional community
assemblages are limited in the ability to reflect long-term evolutionary and functional trait …

Forest dynamics is largely affected by the recruitment of trees. Despite several investigations
on forest recruitment biomass (FRB), it is still not well explored how tree species diversity …

One of the key hypothesized drivers of community assembly and dynamics is environmental
filtering, where environmental stress limits species migration and survival as a result of …

Understanding how environmental change alters the composition of plant assemblages is a
major challenge in the face of global climate change. Researches accounting for site …

Determining assembly rules of co-occurring species persists as a fundamental goal in
community ecology. At local scales, the relative importance of environmental filtering vs …

For centuries, ecologists have been captivated by the assembly of local communities from
regional species pools, which gives rise to spatial diversity patterns. This study focused on …

Dense and species-rich understory communities have been commonly found in old or
abandoned stands of Eucalyptus plantations in the Cerrado domain presenting plant …