Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies
challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …

The concept of metacommunity (ie, a set of local communities linked by dispersal) has
gained great popularity among community ecologists. However, metacommunity research …

Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly
with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA …

The analysis of species diversity has benefited from multiple methodological approaches
that are changing not only the way we measure biodiversity, but also our general …

Eutrophication of inland waters is a mostly anthropogenic phenomenon impacting aquatic
biodiversity worldwide, and might change biotic community structure and ecosystem …

Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss,. Alongside reductions in local
species diversity, biotic homogenization at larger spatial scales is of great concern for …

Aim The variation in species composition among sites, or beta diversity, can be decomposed
into replacement and richness difference. A debate is ongoing in the literature concerning …

Novel algorithms have been recently developed to estimate alpha and partition beta
diversity in all their dimensions (taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity–TD, PD and …

Land‐cover change and ecosystem degradation may lead to biotic homogenization, yet our
understanding of this phenomenon over large spatial scales and different biotic groups …

Two alternative frameworks have been proposed to partition compositional dissimilarity into
replacement and nestedness‐resultant component or into replacement and richness …