Roots are assumed to play a major role in structuring soil microbial communities, but most
studies exploring the relationships between microbes and plants at the community level …

Understanding how species assemble into communities is a central issue in community
ecology. So far, most studies have focused on the assembly mechanisms of vascular plant …

Global change pressures are jeopardizing the functioning and structure of most tropical
forests and clouding the future for their biodiversity and provided services. Although the …

Ecological processes such as seed dispersal or plant–plant interactions and environmental
constraints such as climate or soil heterogeneity are known to influence establishment, and …

Abstract Changes in epigenetic states can allow individuals to cope with environmental
changes. If such changes are heritable, this may lead to epigenetic adaptation. Thus, it is …

Plant trait‐based ecology is a powerful extension of the attempt of community ecologists to
unveil assembly mechanisms. However, the two main expected determinants of community …

An understanding of the diversity spatial organization in plant communities provides
essential information for management and conservation planning. In this study we …

The prevailing role of environmental filtering in community assembly has been widely
corroborated at large spatial scales. However, how environmental filtering and plant …

Thinning in forest management primarily reduces the density of trees and alters the
patchiness and spatial complexity of environmental factors and individual interactions …

Aim The stress‐gradient hypothesis (SGH) postulates that species interactions shift from
negative to positive with increasing abiotic stress. Interactions between species are …