Both the magnitude and the urgency of the task of assessing global biodiversity require that
we make the most of what we know through the use of estimation and extrapolation …

Land-use history interacts with natural forces to influence the severity of disturbance events
and the rate and nature of recovery processes in tropical forests. Although we are far from an …

Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) is quickly becoming the most widely used
gradient analysis technique in ecology. The CCA algorithm is based upon Correspondence …

We review patterns of plant species richness with respect to variables related to resource
availability and variables that have direct physiological impact on plant growth or resource …

In European phytosociology, variable plot sizes are traditionally used for sampling different
vegetation types. This practice may generate problems in current vegetation or habitat …

Tropical rain forests have the highest tree diversity on earth. Nonrandom spatial distributions
of these species in relation to edaphic factors could be one mechanism responsible for …

The question,“why do areas vary in species richness?” has been important throughout the
history of ecology. It is difficult to answer definitively because we have so many (at least 120) …

This paper evaluates both the ideas and empirical evidence pertaining to the control of
species density in herbaceous plant communities. While most theoretical discussions of …

The complex relationship between species richness and area can be simplified by
decomposing spatial scale into its components: grain, extent, and number of samples. We …

Environmental heterogeneity is among the most important factors governing community
structure. Besides the widespread evidence supporting positive relationships between …