Global food production, food supply chains and food security are increasingly stressed by
human population growth and loss of arable land, becoming more vulnerable to …

Motivation and aim Mapping the spatial distribution of biodiversity is critical for
understanding its fundamental drivers (eg speciation, environmental filtering) as well as for …

The redistribution of alien species across the globe accelerated with the start of European
colonialism. European powers were responsible for the deliberate and accidental …

Ecological theory suggests that habitat disturbance differentially influences distributions of
habitat generalist and specialist species. While well-established for macroorganisms, this …

Aim Generalized dissimilarity modelling (GDM) is a powerful and unique method for
characterizing and predicting beta diversity, the change in biodiversity over space, time and …

Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …

Biodiversity includes multiscalar and multitemporal structures and processes, with different
levels of functional organization, from genetic to ecosystemic levels. One of the mostly used …

Incidence, or compositional, matrices are generated for a broad range of research
applications in biology. Zeta diversity provides a common currency and conceptual …

Bacteria have been inferred to exhibit relatively weak biogeographic patterns. To what
extent such findings reflect true biological phenomena or methodological artifacts remains …

Indonesia is the heart of the Coral Triangle, the world's most diverse marine ecosystem.
Preserving the biological and economic value of this marine biodiversity requires efficient …