The use of functional diversity analyses in ecology has grown exponentially over the past
two decades, broadening our understanding of biological diversity and its change across …

Of all ecosystems, freshwaters support the most dynamic and highly concentrated
biodiversity on Earth. These attributes of freshwater biodiversity along with increasing …

Aim The variation in species composition among sites, or beta diversity, can be decomposed
into replacement and richness difference. A debate is ongoing in the literature concerning …

Novel algorithms have been recently developed to estimate alpha and partition beta
diversity in all their dimensions (taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity–TD, PD and …

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 …

Two alternative frameworks have been proposed to partition compositional dissimilarity into
replacement and nestedness‐resultant component or into replacement and richness …

The use of n‐dimensional hypervolumes in trait‐based ecology is rapidly increasing. By
representing the functional space of a species or community as a Hutchinsonian niche, the …

Urbanization is one of the major anthropogenic processes contributing to local habitat loss
and extirpation of numerous species, including wild bees, the most widespread pollinators …

A major goal in ecology is to understand mechanisms that influence patterns of biodiversity
and community assembly at various spatial and temporal scales. Understanding how …

Issue Biodiversity change, that is how the taxonomic identities and abundances of species in
ecological systems are changing over time, has two facets: temporal α diversity and …