▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

How large numbers of competing plant species manage to coexist is a major unresolved
question in community ecology. The classical explanation, that each species occupies its …

The subdiscipline of 'community phylogenetics' is rapidly growing and influencing thinking
regarding community assembly. In particular, phylogenetic dispersion of co‐occurring …

Aim Concerns over how global change will influence species distributions, in conjunction
with increased emphasis on understanding niche dynamics in evolutionary and community …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1085–1093 Abstract Though many processes are involved in
determining which species coexist and assemble into communities, competition is among …

Lack of information on ecological characteristics of species across different continents
hinders development of general world‐scale quantitative vegetation dynamic models. We …

Species enter and persist in local communities because of their ecological fit to local
conditions, and recently, ecologists have moved from measuring diversity as species …

Theory predicts that the processes generating biodiversity after disturbance will change
during succession. Comparisons of phylogenetic and functional (alpha and beta) diversity …

Niche conservatism, the tendency of a species niche to remain unchanged over time, is
often assumed when discussing, explaining or predicting biogeographical patterns …

Abstract Phylomatic (http://www. phylodiversity. net/phylomatic) is an online phylogenetic
query tool where users submit a list of taxa (eg from an ecological community), with modern …