Spatial processes underlie major species coexistence mechanisms. A range of spatial
analysis techniques are increasingly applied to data of fully mapped communities to quantify …

Over the last two decades spatial point pattern analysis (SPPA) has become increasingly
popular in ecological research. To direct future work in this area we review studies using …

Recent theory predicts that stochastic dilution effects may result in species‐rich communities
with statistically independent species spatial distributions, even if the underlying ecological …

Although trait information has been widely used to explore underlying mechanisms of forest
community structure, most studies have focused on local patterns of phylogenetic or …

Aim Analyses of spatial overlap in species distributions are frequently used to test a range of
ecological and evolutionary hypotheses, from the role of competition in community assembly …

ads is an R package that performs multi-scale spatial point pattern analyses through
methods derived from Ripley's K-function. These methods apply to univariate, multivariate or …

Plant–soil feedback (PSF) is known to influence plant community composition, and recent
work suggests that these effects may be regulated by traits related to mycorrhizal …

Evaluating community assembly through the use of functional traits is a promising tool for
testing predictions arising from Niche and Coexistence theories. Although interactions …

The analysis of the spatial phylogenetic and phenotypic structure of plant communities can
provide insight into the underlying processes and interactions governing their assembly, and …

In highly diverse ecosystems, such as tropical forests, the relative importance of
mechanisms underlying species coexistence (eg habitat filtering, competitive exclusion …