Wetlands are among the most threatened habitats and the species they support among the
most endangered taxa. Measuring and monitoring wetland biodiversity is vital for …

Several explanations have been proposed to understand the existence of nested subset
patterns in biological communities, including selective extinction, differential colonization …

The distributional patterns of actively moving animals are influenced by the cues that the
individuals use for choosing sites into which they settle. Individuals may gather information …

The use of indicator species may save a considerable amount of resources when the
attributes of other species or of the ecological process of interest are difficult or costly to …

Nestedness has been a research focus in fields of island biogeography and community
ecology in recent decades. Although nestedness of faunal assemblages has been …

In order to understand the macroecological architecture of an amphibian metacommunity of
a large southern European region located between the Eurosiberian and Mediterranean …

Context Nestedness is a common pattern of species assemblages in fragmented
landscapes. The spatial pattern and ecological drivers of nested communities have been …

Accepted: 15. December 2014/Available online: 31. July 2015/Printed: December 2015
Abstract. Wetlands are important ecosystems that provide valuable habitats for wildlife …

The study of communities in ecology has acquired increasing importance in recent years
because it allows more general and precise evaluations of species' organization patterns …

We used the so called “land-bridge island” or “nested-subsets” theory to test the resilience of
a highly fragmented and perturbated waterbird metacommunity, after legal protection of 18 …