Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

Aim Population density is a key parameter in ecology and conservation, and estimates of
population density are required for a wide variety of applications in fundamental and applied …

Deterministic niche‐based processes have been proposed to explain species relative
abundance within communities but lead to different predictions: habitat filtering (HF) predicts …

We argue for expanding the role of theory in ecology to accelerate scientific progress,
enhance the ability to address environmental challenges, foster the development of …

The species abundance distribution (SAD) is an important concept in ecology, and much
work has focused on the SAD in a theoretical context. However, less focus has been placed …

The species–abundance distribution (SAD) describes the abundances of all species within a
community. Many different models have been proposed to describe observed SADs. Best …

One of the few rules in ecology is that communities are composed of many rare and few
common species. Trait‐based investigations of abundance distributions have generally …

A number of recent studies have demonstrated that plant traits play a crucial role in
determining the success or failure of species in a given environment. However, whether …

A number of different models have been proposed as descriptions of the species-
abundance distribution (SAD). Most evaluations of these models use only one or two …