Environmental heterogeneity is regarded as one of the most important factors governing
species richness gradients. An increase in available niche space, provision of refuges and …

The advent and recent advances of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) have enabled
accurate measurement of 3D ecosystem structure. Here, we review insights gained through …

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

Simple rules for landscape management seem elusive because different species and
species groups are associated with different land cover types; a change in landscape …

The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis predicts that biodiversity increases with increasing
habitat heterogeneity due to greater niche dimensionality. However, recent studies have …

Key to understanding the implications of climate and land use change on biodiversity and
natural resources is to incorporate the physiographic platform on which changes in …

A central goal in ecology is to understand what maintains species diversity in local
communities. Classic ecological theory, posits that niches dictate the maximum number of …

For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions
promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche partitioning. However, a …

The species–area relationship (SAR) has been used to predict the numbers of species
going extinct due to habitat loss, but other researchers have maintained that SAR s …

Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …