One of ecology's grand challenges is develo** general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Shade, in ecological sense, is not merely a lack of light, but a multi-faceted phenomenon
that creates new and complex settings for community and ecosystem dynamics. Tolerating …

The environmental filtering hypothesis predicts that the abiotic environment selects species
with similar trait values within communities. Testing this hypothesis along multiple–and …

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

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

Establishing trait–environment relationships has become routine in community ecology.
Here, we demonstrate that the community weighted means correlation (CWM) and its …

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 …

The composition of avian communities in human‐dominated habitats is thought to be
determined by the interaction between species‐specific traits and environmental …

The fast–slow plant economics spectrum predicts that because of evolutionary and
biophysical constraints, different plant organs must be coordinated to converge in a unique …