River managers strive to use the best available science to sustain biodiversity and
ecosystem function. To achieve this goal requires consideration of processes at different …

The spatial distribution of bacteria in bulk soil has been well studied, but little is known about
the bacterial biogeography in the rhizosphere of crops. Here, we investigated bacterial …

Community ecology has broadened considerably with the recognition that it is not only at the
species‐level data where biological patterns and their determinants should be studied …

Riparian zones ensure freshwater ecosystem processes such as microclimate regulation,
organic matter inputs, and fine substrate retention. These processes illustrate the importance …

Ecological drift can override the effects of deterministic niche selection on small populations
and drive the assembly of some ecological communities. We tested this hypothesis with a …

Aim Emerging aquatic insects link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems across the Earth. Their
diversity, abundance and functional importance means their emergence is an important …

The decay of assemblage similarity with spatial distance can be explained by alternative
mechanisms: dispersal limitation and species sorting. To understand their relative …

The metacommunity concept has been widely used to explain the biodiversity patterns at
various scales. It considers the influences of both local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic …

As human population size increases and cities become denser, several urban‐related
selection pressures increasingly affect species composition in both terrestrial and aquatic …

Metacommunity theory has provided many insights into the general problem of local versus
regional control of species diversity and relative abundance. The metacommunity framework …