The consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on
the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them …

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

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

The importance of biodiversity for the integrated functioning of ecosystems remains unclear
because most evidence comes from analyses of biodiversity's effect on individual functions …

The relationship between facilitation and evolutionary ecology is poorly understood. We
review five issues elucidating how the phylogenetic relatedness of species provides insight …

Recent hypotheses argue that phylogenetic relatedness should predict both the niche
differences that stabilise coexistence and the average fitness differences that drive …

In plants, transgenerational inheritance of some epialleles has been demonstrated but it
remains controversial whether epigenetic variation is subject to selection and contributes to …

Understanding the processes that drive the dramatic changes in biodiversity along the
productivity gradient remains a major challenge. Insight from simple, bivariate relationships …

Ecological communities often transition from phylogenetic and functional clustering to
overdispersion over succession as judged by space‐for‐time substitution studies. Such a …

Recent studies assessing the role of biological diversity for ecosystem functioning indicate
that the diversity of functional traits and the evolutionary history of species in a community …