Highlights•The world's mountains host immense biodiversity and hundreds of millions of
people.•Mountains provide ecosystem services for billions of people, also in the …

Understanding the effects of landscape composition and configuration, climate, and
topography on bird diversity is necessary to identify distribution drivers, potential impacts of …

Aim Disentangling how stochastic and deterministic processes contribute to variation in beta
diversity is a common goal for ecologists and biogeographers. However, such studies are …

Aim To explore the impact of island area and isolation on multiple dimensions of ant
biodiversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity) and the underlying processes …

Given the decline of natural fish abundance and diversity, a ban on pen-culture and fishing
has been imposed on floodplain lakes along the Yangtze River. In order to examine the …

Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in driving
metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we …

Aim Most biodiversity studies have considered species to be isolated entities, neglecting the
fact that their biotic interactions and spatial variation are fundamental to their persistence …

Despite the long-standing interest in the organization of ant communities across elevational
gradients, few studies have incorporated the evolutionary information to understand the …

Montane small mammals are subjected to strong forces of dispersal limitation and habitat
filtering that mainly operate on their community structures along the altitudinal direction …

Beta diversity describes the variation in species composition among communities within a
region and it is determined by two antithetic processes: species turnover (or species …