Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

The concept of biological diversity, or biodiversity, is at the core of evolutionary and
ecological studies. Many indices of biodiversity have been developed in the last four …

Species diversity of angiosperms (flowering plants) varies greatly among regions.
Geographic patterns of variation in species diversity are shaped by the interplay of …

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

Insular woodiness (IW)—the evolutionary transition from herbaceousness toward woodiness
on islands—is one of the most iconic features of island floras. Since pioneering work by …

The melting of the cryosphere is among the most conspicuous consequences of climate
change, with impacts on microbial life and related biogeochemistry. However, we are …

Species assemble into communities through ecological and evolutionary processes.
Phylogenetic niche conservatism—the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological …

Knowledge of relationships between phylogenetic structure of a biological assemblage and
ecological factors that drive the variation of phylogenetic structure among regions is crucial …

The tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological distributions (phylogenetic niche
conservatism) is thought to influence which species from a species pool can persist in a …

Community assembly theory hypothesizes that two main niche‐based processes act to
shape composition and organization of biological assemblages: abiotic filtering and …