Understanding the processes shaping biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

Plants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of
establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of …

Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-developing field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

The promise of “trait-based” plant ecology is one of generalized prediction across
organizational and spatial scales, independent of taxonomy. This promise is a major reason …

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical
Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical …

Assessing trait responses to environmental gradients requires the simultaneous analysis of
the information contained in three tables: L (species distribution across samples), R …

A central current debate in community ecology concerns the relative importance of
deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community structure. However, the …

The book describes and discusses the numerical methods which are successfully being
used for analysing ecological data, using a clear and comprehensive approach. These …