Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

Taxonomic nestedness, the degree to which the taxonomic composition of species‐poor
assemblages represents a subset of richer sites, commonly occurs in habitat fragments and …

Aim Wallacea, the vast oceanic boundary between the Oriental and Australian regions,
contains 122 true nectarivorous bird species. It is the contact zone of the Oriental sunbirds …

Aim To establish the extent to which archipelagos follow the same species–area relationship
as their constituent islands and to explore the factors that may explain departures from the …

Aims The nested subset pattern has been widely studied in the last 20 years, and recent
syntheses have challenged the prevalence of this pattern in nature. We examined the …

Prediction of extinction and colonization rates for whole species assemblages emerges as
an urgent task for ecology. We hypothesized that nestedness of species assemblage reflects …

Urbanization often leads to the homogenization of species composition in aquatic
ecosystems, as it introduces disturbances that can destroy the habitats of unique endemic or …

The archipelago-like coastal forest of East Africa is one of the highest priority ecosystems for
biodiversity conservation worldwide. Here we investigate patterns of species richness and …

A community's biological diversity reflects coexistence between species. This often depends,
to some extent, on whether there is competition for resources and how it is dealt with. The …

A community is “nested” when species assemblages in less rich sites form nonrandom
subsets of those at richer sites. Conventional null models used to test for statistically …