Species richness increases with energy availability, yet there is little consensus as to the
exact processes driving this species–energy relationship. The most straightforward …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are crucial mutualistic symbionts of the majority of plant
species, with essential roles in plant nutrient uptake and stress mitigation. The importance of …

Current ecological and evolutionary research are increasingly moving from species-to trait-
based approaches because traits provide a stronger link to organism's function and fitness …

Aim Many important patterns and processes vary across the phylogeny and depend on
phylogenetic scale. Nonetheless, phylogenetic scale has never been formally …

Aim The diversity of birds and mammals is typically described in separate analyses, but
species may play similar roles. Here, we develop a comparative trait framework for birds and …

Mammals represent the largest-bodied elements of the world's surviving megafauna and
provide several key ecosystems services, yet their populations are often under steep decline …

Species‐specific diversification rates, or 'tip rates', can be computed quickly from
phylogenies and are widely used to study diversification rate variation in relation to …

Species distributions in terrestrial ecosystems are three‐dimensional, spanning both the
horizontal landscape and the vertical space provided by the physical environment. Classical …

Understanding the biogeographical patterns, and evolutionary and environmental drivers,
underpinning morphological diversity are key for determining its origins and conservation …

A variety of factors can affect the biodiversity of tropical mammal communities, but their
relative importance and directionality remain uncertain. Previous global investigations of …