Ecological approaches to community assembly have emphasized the interplay between
neutral processes, niche-based environmental filtering and niche-based species sorting in …

One of the oldest challenges in ecology is to understand the processes that underpin the
composition of communities. Historically, an obvious way in which to describe community …

Ecological interactions have been acknowledged to play a key role in shaping biodiversity,.
Yet a major challenge for evolutionary biology is to understand the role of ecological …

Roughly 90% of butterfly species live in the tropics. Despite this, we know very little about
tropical butterfly ecology particularly when compared to temperate butterfly systems. The …

How biotic interactions, current and historical environment, and biogeographic barriers
determine community structure is a fundamental question in ecology and evolution …

While the relationship between facilitation and competition has been explored extensively in
recent years, there is also a natural link between facilitation and mutualism, as both are …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 841–851 Abstract Ecological specialisation concerns all species
and underlies many major ecological and evolutionary patterns. Yet its status as a unifying …

The finding that adaptive evolution can often be substantial enough to alter ecological
dynamics challenges traditional views of community ecology that ignore evolution. Here, we …

Müllerian mimicry among Neotropical Heliconiini butterflies is an excellent example of
natural selection, associated with the diversification of a large continental-scale radiation …

In multiply invaded ecosystems, introduced species should interact with each other as well
as with native species. Invader–invader interactions may affect the success of further …