Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

There is an urgent need to understand species and community responses to climatic and
ecological changes to predict biodiversity patterns given anticipated global change. The …

Soil ecology is witnessing exponential growth in the number of studies using co-occurrence
network analysis. Researchers reconstruct networks based on the co-occurrence of taxa or …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

A key focus in ecology is to search for community assembly rules. Here we compare two
community modelling frameworks that integrate a combination of environmental and spatial …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Community ecology and paleoecology are both concerned with the composition and
structure of biotic assemblages but are largely disconnected. Community ecology focuses …

Understanding how ecological communities are organized and how they change through
time is critical to predicting the effects of climate change. Recent work documenting the co …

With overwhelming evidence of change in habitats, biologists today must assume that few, if
any, study areas are natural and that biological variability is superimposed on trends rather …

Positive and negative associations between species are a key outcome of community
assembly from regional species pools. These associations are difficult to detect and can be …