A regional species pool comprises all species available to colonize a focal site. The roots of
the concept are imbedded in island biogeography theory, supply-side ecology, and early …

Despite the disproportionate influence that propagule production, dispersal, seed‐to‐
seedling recruitment and vegetative reproduction can have on plant population and …

A central current debate in community ecology concerns the relative importance of
deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community structure. However, the …

Vegetation composition and/or plant species co-existence is influenced by the
environmental variations in any region. The ecological knowledge and order of importance …

Community assembly involves two antagonistic processes that select functional traits in
opposite directions. Environmental filtering tends to increase the functional similarity of …

The construction of dams has caused riparian habitat degradation and ecosystem service
loss globally. It is critical to assess the response of riparian plant communities to inundation …

ABSTRACT A fundamental goal of ecological research is to understand and model how
processes generate patterns so that if conditions change, changes in the patterns can be …

The abundance and distribution of species across the landscape depend on the interaction
between local, spatial, and stochastic processes. However, empirical syntheses relating …

Question When can we assume that inter‐specific trait variation is higher than intra‐specific
trait variation in plant community ecology? Location Old‐growth deciduous forest in the G …

Microorganisms in nature form diverse communities that dynamically change in structure
and function in response to environmental variations. As a complex adaptive system …