The interactions between organisms and their environments can shape distributions of
spatial genetic variation, resulting in patterns of isolation by environment (IBE) in which …

Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …

Introduction Establishing whether specific structural and functional configurations of a
human gut microbiota are causally related to a given physiologic or disease phenotype is …

The subdiscipline of 'community phylogenetics' is rapidly growing and influencing thinking
regarding community assembly. In particular, phylogenetic dispersion of co‐occurring …

The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

Environmental niche models, which are generated by combining species occurrence data
with environmental GIS data layers, are increasingly used to answer fundamental questions …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1030–1040 Abstract Functional and phylogenetic diversity are
increasingly quantified in various fields of ecology and conservation biology. The need to …

Examining biological diversity in an explicitly evolutionary context has been the subject of
research for several decades, yet relatively recent advances in analytical techniques and the …

In natural communities, species and their interactions are often organized as nonrandom
networks, showing distinct and repeated complex patterns. A prevalent, but poorly explored …