Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

Biologists are often confronted with high levels of unexplained variation when studying the
processes that determine genetic and species diversity. Here, we argue that eco …

Climate change will likely reshuffle ecological communities, causing novel species
interactions that could profoundly influence how populations and communities respond to …

Invasive and endangered species reflect opposite ends of a spectrum of ecological success,
yet they experience many similar eco-evolutionary challenges including demographic …

Ecological release, originally conceived as niche expansion following a reduction in
interspecific competition, may prompt invasion success, morphological evolution, speciation …

The relative importance of intraspecific trait variation (rITV) for functional diversity (FD) in
plant communities is increasingly apparent, but the influence of abiotic factors on the …

Species' ranges are limited by both ecological and evolutionary constraints. While there is a
growing appreciation that ecological constraints include interactions among species, like …

With the realization that much of the biological diversity on Earth has been generated by
discrete evolutionary radiations, there has been a rapid increase in research into the biotic …

Global correlations of range size and niche breadth, and their relationship to latitude, have
long intrigued ecologists and biogeographers. Study of these patterns has given rise to a …

Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) plays a potentially important role in determining functional
community composition across environmental gradients. However, the importance of ITV …