Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

Aim The number of studies investigating the nestedness and turnover components of beta
diversity has increased substantially, but our general understanding of the drivers of …

A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving
community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …

Relationships between traits of organisms and the structure of their metacommunities have
so far mainly been explored with meta‐analyses. We compared metacommunities of a wide …

Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …

A central challenge in ecology is to understand the relative importance of processes that
shape diversity patterns. Compared with aboveground biota, little is known about spatial …

The influence of spatial processes on diversity and community dynamics is generally
recognized in ecology and also applied to conservation projects involving forest and …

Understanding diversity and assembly patterns of microbial communities in activated sludge
(AS) is pivotal for addressing fundamental ecological questions and wastewater treatment …

Beta diversity modelling has received increased interest recently. There are multiple
definitions of beta diversity, but here, we focus on variability in species composition among …