Knowledge of species composition and their interactions, in the form of interaction networks,
is required to understand processes sha** their distribution over time and space. As such …

Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

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 …

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of statistical methods that
infer evolutionary and ecological processes from data on species distributions. These …

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 …

As Earth's climate has varied strongly through geological time, studying the impacts of past
climate change on biodiversity helps to understand the risks from future climate change …

Taxonomic diversity considers all species being equally different from each other and thus
disregards species' different ecological functions. Exploring taxonomic and functional …

Landscape patterns are important drivers of biodiversity. Owing to differences in vegetation
types, sampling methods, diversity measures, spatial scales, and landscape levels, the …

Aim The aim was to investigate the relationship between climate, topography and soil pH, as
well as vegetation structure and the beta diversity of plants, butterflies and birds; and to …

Dispersal is one of the key mechanisms affecting the distribution of individuals, populations,
and communities in nature. Despite advances in the study of single species, it has been …