Aim This paper presents the statistical bases for temporal beta‐diversity analysis, a method
to study changes in community composition through time from repeated surveys at several …

Protected areas are a key conservation tool, yet their effectiveness at maintaining
biodiversity through time is rarely quantified. Here, we assess protected area effectiveness …

Revealing regional distribution and diversity of abundant and rare bacterial communities in
different cropping systems are crucial to predict trends of microbial changes in farmlands …

Alien fish substantially impact aquatic communities. However, their effects on trait
composition remain poorly understood, especially at large spatiotemporal scales. Here, we …

Ecologists have long been interested in how communities change over time. Addressing
questions about community dynamics requires ways of representing and comparing the …

Understanding the patterns and ecological determinants of β diversity in freshwater
ecosystems is fundamental to biogeography, conservation biology, and environmental …

Abstract The Mekong, Sekong, Sesan, and Srepok (Mekong-3S) river system, a Ramsar
wetlands of international importance and critical fish migration routes, is altered by dams that …

Growing evidence suggests that liana competition with trees is threatening the global carbon
sink by slowing the recovery of forests following disturbance. A recent theory based on local …

Forests represent the largest terrestrial ecosystem on Earth, covering about 30% of its
surface, and their microbial inhabitants carry out crucial ecosystem processes. Forests …

The rotifer fauna of Africa has been studied for> 100 years, but there has been no recent
synthesis. We compiled data from 265 publications that reported information on African …