The resilience or sensitivity of seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) to climate change
remains an important issue because of their biodiversity and ecosystem services provision …

Aim Amazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young
and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree …

Phylogenetic and species‐based taxonomic descriptions of community structure may
provide complementary information about the mechanisms driving community assembly …

The phylogenetic community assembly approach has been used to elucidate the role of
ecological and historical processes in shaping tropical tree communities. Recent studies …

Abstract The Cadeia do Espinhaço (also referred to as “Espinhaço Range”) is a mountain
range that extends for more than 1,200 km from northern Bahia to southern Minas Gerais in …

The extent to which historical dispersal, environmental features and geographical barriers
shape the phylogenetic structure and turnover of tree communities in northwestern …

Granite-gneiss rock outcrop inselbergs are ancient stable ecosystems with old, climatically-
buffered infertile landscapes (OCBILs). Although inselbergs provide key ecosystem services …

Spatial patterns of species' distributions are often biased with respect to environmental
variables, including discrete habitats. Patterns alone, however, cannot uniquely identify the …

摘要鉴于全球森林均呈现片段化(破碎化) 的分布状态, 理解片段化森林群落构建的过程很有必要.
该文通过综述群落构建的主要生态过程如生态漂变, 扩散, 选择和物种形成等在片段化森林群落 …

Secondary forests represent an increasing proportion of global forest cover and offer a
range of ecosystem services that are integral to environmental policy targets. Highly …