Despite the disproportionate influence that propagule production, dispersal, seed‐to‐
seedling recruitment and vegetative reproduction can have on plant population and …

Succession and community assembly research overlap in many respects, such as through
their focus on how ecological processes like dispersal, environmental filters, and biotic …

Our ability to understand and predict the response of ecosystems to a changing environment
depends on quantifying vegetation functional diversity. However, representing this diversity …

Ecological succession–how biological communities re‐assemble and change over time
following natural or anthropogenic disturbance–has been studied since the birth of ecology …

Some commonly reported trait–trait relationships between species, including the leaf
economic spectrum (LES), are regarded as important plant strategies but whether these …

The stress‐dominance hypothesis (SDH) is a model of community assembly predicting that
the relative importance of environmental filtering increases and competition decreases …

Aim The relative contribution of community functional diversity and composition to
ecosystem functioning is a critical question in ecology in order to enable better predictions of …

The relationship between species richness and evenness across communities remains an
unsettled issue in ecology from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. As a result, we …

Despite extensive development of successional theory, few empirical studies have
evaluated whether existing models are applicable to human‐modified landscapes …

Understanding the relative contribution of abiotic and biotic factors to the formation of
ecosystem functioning across scales is vital to evaluate ecosystem services. Here, we …