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

The comparison of genetic divergence or genetic distances, estimated by pairwise F ST and
related statistics, with geographical distances by Mantel test is one of the most popular …

Recently, community ecologists are focusing on the relative importance of local
environmental factors and proxies to dispersal limitation to explain spatial variation in …

The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

Metacommunity ecology has rapidly become a dominant framework through which
ecologists understand the natural world. Unfortunately, persistent misunderstandings …

The increasing occurrence of large and severe fires in Mediterranean forest ecosystems
produces major ecological and socio-economic damage. In this study, we aim to identify the …

Due to complex interactions between climate and land use changes, large forest fires have
increased in frequency and severity over the last decades, impacting dramatically on …

The large environmental and socioeconomic impacts of wildfires in Southern Europe require
the development of efficient generalizable tools for fire danger analysis and proactive …

Background Prescribed burning (PB) is becoming relevant in fuel reduction and thus fire
hazard abatement in fire-prone ecosystems of southern Europe. Yet, empirical evidence on …

Variation partitioning of species composition into components explained by environmental
and spatial variables is often used to identify a signature of niche‐and dispersal‐based …