Ecological release, originally conceived as niche expansion following a reduction in
interspecific competition, may prompt invasion success, morphological evolution, speciation …

A variety of relationships have been observed between sexual dimorphism and species
diversity, from positive to negative and nonsignificant. Although many hypotheses have …

Eco-evolutionary forces are the key drivers of ecosystem biodiversity dynamics. This
resulted in a large body of theory, which has partially been experimentally tested by …

Closely related species are often assumed to be functionally similar. Phylogenetic
information is thus widely used to infer functional diversity and assembly of communities. In …

Direct species interactions are commonly included in individual fitness models used for
coexistence and local diversity modeling. Though widely considered important for such …

Communities are assembled from species that evolve or colonise a given geographic
region, and persist in the face of abiotic conditions and interactions with other species. The …

Aim Raptors, a highly threatened but ecologically important group of birds, have been
recognized as a good proxy for overall biodiversity in conservation planning. However …

Several factors influence the partitioning of trophic resources in ecological communities,
such as morphology, evolutionary history, and resource availability. Although the effects of …

While the theory of micro-evolution by natural selection assigns a crucial role to competition,
its role in macroevolution is less clear. Phylogenetic evidence for a decelerating …

Invasive alien species can cause detrimental changes in native ecosystems, but our
understanding of the interactions between multiple exotic species is limited. To evaluate the …