To design robust protected area networks, accurately measure species losses, or
understand the processes that maintain species diversity, conservation science must …

Deterministic theories in community ecology suggest that local, niche-based processes,
such as environmental filtering, biotic interactions and interspecific trade-offs largely …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

物种共存和生物多样性维持一直是生态学研究的中心论题. 基于物种生态位分化的群落构建理论
已经发展了近一个世纪, 但我们对群落构建和生物多样性维持的机理仍然不清楚. 近年来 …

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community
ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological …

Ecological community assembly is governed by a combination of (i) selection resulting from
among-taxa differences in performance;(ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; …

Spatial turnover in the composition of biological communities is governed by (ecological)
Drift, Selection and Dispersal. Commonly applied statistical tools cannot quantitatively …

Trade plays a key role in the spread of alien species and has arguably contributed to the
recent enormous acceleration of biological invasions, thus homogenizing biotas worldwide …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 19–28 Abstract A recent increase in studies of β diversity has
yielded a confusing array of concepts, measures and methods. Here, we provide a roadmap …

Whether niche processes, like environmental filtering, or neutral processes, like dispersal
limitation, are the primary forces driving community assembly is a central question in …