Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

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

Ecologists often face the task of studying the association between single species and one or
several groups of sites representing habitat types, community types, or other categories …

Long-term ecological monitoring has contributed substantially towards advancements in
theoretical and applied ecology. However, the costs to maintain a long-term monitoring site …

Indicator species are species that are used as ecological indicators of community or habitat
types, environmental conditions, or environmental changes. In order to determine indicator …

Modern computer-intensive statistical methods play a key role in solving many problems
across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This new edition of the bestselling …

The assembly of DNA barcode libraries is particularly relevant within species-rich natural
communities for which accurate species identifications will enable detailed ecological …

It is debated whether species-level differences in ecological strategy, which play a key role
in much of coexistence theory, are important in structuring highly diverse communities. We …