In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

Understanding how reclamation practices influence plant community assembly and
succession is an important step in developing realistic indicators and targets for reclamation …

Maintaining biodiversity in urbanised landscapes has become a conservation issue.
Although numerous studies have shown that avifauna decreases according to urbanisation …

Successional dynamics in plant community assembly may result from both deterministic and
stochastic ecological processes. The relative importance of different ecological processes is …

Understanding the effects of reclamation treatments on plant community development is an
important step in setting realistic indicators and targets for reclamation of upland oil sands …

Soil resource quantity and heterogeneity as well as overstory characteristics change along
with stand age after fire disturbance, imposing strong influences on post-fire understory …

Questions Are species from different biogeographic groups (mediterranean, alpine and
endemic) filtered in different ways by altitude and topography in alpine plant communities …

It is often suggested that habitat attributes and interspecific interactions can cause non-
random species co-occurrence patterns, but quantifying their contributions can be difficult …

Understory vegetation accounts for the majority of plant species diversity and serves as a
driver of overstory succession and nutrient cycling in boreal forest ecosystems. However …

Questions The community patterns in kwongan, a mediterranean‐type scrub on nutrient‐
poor soils occurring in Western Australia, are poorly understood due to only few, focused …