Aim Beta diversity can be partitioned into two components: dissimilarity due to species
replacement and dissimilarity due to nestedness (Baselga, 2010, Global Ecology and …

Global climate changes during the Quaternary reveal much about broader evolutionary
effects of environmental change. Detailed regional studies reveal how evolutionary lineages …

Aim One of the main gaps in the assessment of biodiversity is the lack of a unified framework
for measuring its taxonomic and functional facets and for unveiling the underlying patterns …

Dissimilarity measures can be formulated using matching components that can be defined
as the intersection in terms of species composition of both sets (a) and the relative …

Most conservation planning to date has focused on protecting today's biodiversity with the
assumption that it will be tomorrow's biodiversity. However, modern climate change has …

What role did fluctuations play in biomass availability for secondary consumers in the
disappearance of Neanderthals and the survival of modern humans? To answer this, we …

The evolutionary dissimilarity between communities (phylogenetic beta diversity PBD) has
been increasingly explored by ecologists and biogeographers to assess the relative roles of …

Beta diversity is an important concept used to describe turnover in species composition
across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, and it underpins much of conservation …

Community ecology and paleoecology are both concerned with the composition and
structure of biotic assemblages but are largely disconnected. Community ecology focuses …

It is generally believed that there is a vegetation succession sequence from alpine marsh
meadow to desert in the alpine ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. However, we still …