Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global
biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing …

Beta diversity is an important component of biological diversity, measuring compositional
change in species assemblages across temporal and spatial scales. Beta diversity concerns …

The use of parasites as biological tags to discriminate among marine fish stocks has
become a widely accepted method in fisheries management. Here, we first link this …

A common approach for analysing geographical variation in biodiversity involves using
linear models to determine the rate at which species similarity declines with geographical or …

Aim Our aim in this paper is to present the first broad‐scale quantification of species
abundance for rocky intertidal communities along the Pacific coast of North America. Here …

Current macroecological research places great emphasis on patterns of species richness
(alpha diversity) and the underlying ecological and evolutionary processes involved in their …

Aim To test the hypothesis that plant species with a higher dispersal ability have a lower
beta diversity. Location North America north of Mexico. Method Propagules of pteridophytes …

Aim A long‐standing challenge in ecology is to identify the suite of factors that lead to
turnover in species composition in both space and time. These factors might be stochastic …

Aim Habitat and climate heterogeneity may affect patterns of species diversity from the
relatively local scale of communities to the broad biogeographical scale of continents …

In the light of unprecedented change in global biodiversity, real-time and accurate
ecosystem and biodiversity assessments are becoming increasingly essential …