Understanding the community assembly mechanisms controlling biodiversity patterns is a
central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that both deterministic and …

As Earth's climate has varied strongly through geological time, studying the impacts of past
climate change on biodiversity helps to understand the risks from future climate change …

Aim The world's islands support disproportionate levels of endemic avian biodiversity
despite suffering numerous extinctions. While intensive recent research has focused on …

In the Palaearctic steppe zone, overgrazing was identified as one of the key drivers of
declining grassland biodiversity, which underlines the necessity of the functional evaluation …

The involvement of ecological theory in habitat restoration has significantly increased in the
past decade. However, despite the fact that the field of restoration ecology has grown …

A pressing question is whether biodiversity can buffer ecosystem functioning against
extreme climate events. However, biodiversity loss is expected to occur due to climate …

Abstract Models applying space‐for‐time substitution, including those projecting ecological
responses to climate change, generally assume an elevational and latitudinal equivalence …

Climatic extreme events such as droughts (unpredictable), dry periods (predictable) or even
flush floods, threaten freshwater ecosystems worldwide. The filtering mechanisms of these …

Fire is an evolutionary environmental filter in tropical savanna ecosystems altering functional
diversity and associated C pools in the biosphere and fluxes between the atmosphere and …

In community ecology, randomization tests with problem specific test statistics (eg,
nestedness, functional diversity, etc.) are often applied. Researchers in such studies may …