Microbial communities are enigmatically diverse. We propose a novel view of processes
likely affecting microbial assemblages, which could be viewed as the Great American …

Metacommunity phylogenetics aims at evaluating environmental and/or historical factors
driving clade distribution. Phylogenetic fuzzy weighting (PFW) describes clade distribution …

The potential for disease transmission at the interface of wildlife, domestic animals and
humans has become a major concern for public health and conservation biology. Research …

The metacommunity concept, describing how local and regional scale processes interact to
structure communities, has been successfully applied to patterns of taxonomic diversity …

Aim We develop a conceptual framework for integrating evolutionary history and ecological
processes into studies of biotic assembly. Location Global. Methods We use theoretical and …

A major objective in ecology is to determine how local species abundances relate to their
functional trait values (ie trait–abundance relationship), under a combined influence of 1) …

Standardized data on large‐scale and long‐term patterns of species richness are critical for
understanding the consequences of natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment …

Failure to maintain segregation of oral and gut microbial communities has been linked to
several diseases. We sought to characterize oral-fecal microbiome community coalescence …

Although metacommunity theory provides many useful insights for conservation planning,
the transfer of this knowledge to practice is hampered due to the difficulty of identifying …

Understanding patterns of species diversity and distribution is crucial for the development of
adequate public conservation policies. Despite the conservation value of mangroves, we still …