Predicting how species, particularly rare and endangered ones, will react to climate change
is a major current challenge in ecology. Rare species are expected to have a narrower niche …

In support of the prediction of the enemy release hypothesis regarding a growth–defense
trade‐off, invasive alien plants often exhibit greater growth and lower anti‐herbivory …

Local abundance and regional distribution are two aspects of a species' rarity. They are
suggested to differentially alter genetic processes in plants: Locally rare species are …

Managing invasions in the context of globalization is a challenge in part because of the
difficulty of inferring invader impacts from their invasiveness (ie ability to invade …

Rare plant species are suggested to be less resistant to herbivores than common species.
Their lower apparency and the fact that they often live in isolated populations, resulting in …

Although herbivores are well known to incur positive density‐dependent damage and
mortality, thereby likely sha** plant community assembly, the response of belowground …

Species losses and local extinctions are alarmingly common, frequently as a consequence
of habitat destruction. Nevertheless, many intact habitats also face species losses, most …

Variation in species composition among sites (beta diversity) is generally thought to be
driven by environmental filtering and dispersal limitation, but the role of biotic interactions …

In theory, species coexistence is supposed to be maintained by the effects of equalizing
mechanisms and stabilizing mechanisms. However, we still lack a conclusive body of …

Salacia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae, consisting of woody
climbers distributed in tropical America, Africa, and Asia. In India it is represented by 21 …