There are a variety of proposed evolutionary and ecological explanations for why some
species have more extensive geographical ranges than others. One of the most common …

The christening of the decline in the geographic extent of species from high to low latitudes
as Rapoport's rule was a bold step. Allowing for a variety of potentially significant …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

The ecology of seed size is discussed with reference to different measurements of seed size,
seed size in relation to dormancy and seed banks, community patterns of seed size …

The objective of this study is to examine whether habitat, herbivory and traits related to
resource acquisition, resource conservation, reproduction and dispersal differ between …

Comparative studies investigating relationships between plant traits and species rarity and
commonness were surveyed to establish whether global patterns have emerged that would …

• We review current knowledge about the biology of the genus Acacia, and Acacia dealbata
Link (silver wattle) in particular, as an invader in Europe, focusing on (i) the biology of the …

The drivers of variability in species range sizes remain an outstanding enigma in ecology.
The theoretical expectation of a positive dispersal‐range size relationship has received …

Latitudinal variation among species in life‐history traits is often suggested to contribute to
high tropical species richness. However, traditional methods of analysing such variation …

1 It has been suggested that rare species differ from related common species in a variety of
traits, including (among others) niche breadth and dispersal ability. We set out to test these …