Climate change triggers poleward shifts in species distribution leading to changes in
biogeography. In the marine environment, fish respond quickly to warming, causing …

Biodiversity promotes ecosystem function as a consequence of functional differences among
organisms that enable resource partitioning and facilitation. As the need for biodiversity …

Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate for agricultural use and pastureland, but
also regrow naturally through secondary succession. For successful forest restoration, it is …

Speciation generally involves a three-step process—range expansion, range fragmentation
and the development of reproductive isolation between spatially separated populations …

Over half of the world's forests are disturbed, and the rate at which ecosystem processes
recover after disturbance is important for the services these forests can provide. We analyze …

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 …

The simple or classical ordination methods mostly used by palaeoecologists and
palaeolimnologists are principal component analysis (PCA) and correspondence analysis …

It was recently suggested that beta diversity can be partitioned into contributions of single
sites to overall beta diversity (LCBD) or into contributions of individual species to overall …

Species roles in ecological networks combine to generate their architecture, which
contributes to their stability. Species trait diversity also affects ecosystem functioning and …

How communities assemble is a central and fundamental question in ecology. However, it
has been mired by conflicting conclusions about whether community assembly is driven by …