Succession has been a focus of extensive ecological study for well over a century. Despite
this sustained interest, succession remains a central theme in ecological research and is …

Understanding how ecosystem functioning is impacted by global change drivers is a central
topic in ecology and conservation science. We need to assess not only how environmental …

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

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Metabolomics provides an unprecedented window into diverse plant secondary metabolites
that represent a potentially critical niche dimension in tropical forests underlying species …

Plant diversity plays an important role in maintaining and upgrading ecosystem structure
and functions, and there remain uncertainties on plant species and especially phylogenetic …

Assembly of grassland communities has long been scrutinized through the lens of functional
diversity. Studies generally point to an overwhelming influence of climate on observed …

Beta diversity describes the variation in species composition between sites and is often
influenced by both local and regional processes. Partitioning beta diversity into turnover …

Community assembly processes is the primary focus of community ecology. Using
phylogenetic‐based and functional trait‐based methods jointly to explore these processes …

The observed patterns and underlying mechanisms of elevational beta-diversity have been
explored intensively, but multi-dimensional comparative studies remain scarce. Herein …