Recent biogeographic and evolutionary studies have led to improved understanding of the
origins of exceptionally high plant diversity in the California Floristic Province (CA-FP) …

Despite increasing concern about elevated extinction risk as global temperatures rise, it is
difficult to confirm causal links between climate change and extinction. By coupling 25 years …

Functional trait‐based approaches have seen rapid development in community ecology and
biogeography in recent years, as they promise to offer a better mechanistic and predictive …

Dispersal—the movement of an individual from the site of birth to a different site for
reproduction—is an ecological and evolutionary driver of species ranges that shapes …

Spatial environmental heterogeneity is considered a fundamental factor for the maintenance
of plant species richness. However, it still remains unclear whether heterogeneity may also …

Restoration ecology commonly seeks to re‐establish species of interest in degraded
habitats. Despite a rich understanding of how succession influences re‐establishment, there …

Species' geographic range limits often result from maladaptation to the novel environments
beyond the range margin. However, we rarely know which aspects of the n-dimensional …

Abstract Background and Aims Many locally endemic species in biodiversity hotspots are
restricted to edaphic conditions that are fixed in the landscape, limiting their potential to track …

The degradation of salt marsh plants due to human activities has accelerated in recent
years, and this has decreased the ecological service functions of estuary wetlands and …

Ecological restoration often focuses on short‐term intervention efforts with the goal of
creating restored ecosystems that do not require continuous human maintenance. Here, we …