Evidence is increasing for positive effects of α-diversity on ecosystem functioning. We
highlight here the crucial role of β-diversity–a hitherto underexplored facet of biodiversity–for …

Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

Functional diversity (FD), the diversity of organism attributes that relates to their interactions
with the abiotic and biotic environment, has been increasingly used for the last two decades …

Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait
combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the …

Aim The variation in species composition among sites, or beta diversity, can be decomposed
into replacement and richness difference. A debate is ongoing in the literature concerning …

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

Beta diversity, that is, the variation in species composition among sites, can be the result of
species replacement between sites (turnover) and species loss from site to site …

For managed temperate forests, conservationists and policymakers favour fine‐grained
uneven‐aged (UEA) management over more traditional coarse‐grained even‐aged (EA) …

Abundance‐based assemblage dissimilarity can be partitioned into components accounting
for (i) balanced variation in abundance, whereby the individuals of some species in one site …

Novel algorithms have been recently developed to estimate alpha and partition beta
diversity in all their dimensions (taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity–TD, PD and …