The potential ranges of many species are shifting due to changing ecological conditions.
Where populations become patchy towards the range edge, the realised distribution …

Understanding the ability of plants to spread is important for assessing conservation
strategies, landscape dynamics, invasiveness and ability to cope with climate change. While …

Plants often show a patchy distribution. This can be related to the discontinuous distribution
of environmental variables that define suitable habitat. Metapopulation theory suggests that …

Aim How species traits and environmental conditions affect biogeographical dynamics is
poorly understood. Here we test whether estimates of a species' evolutionary age …

The design and objective of a community study imply the selection of the appropriate
ordination technique in terms of species response models and weighting options. In this …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are routinely applied to assess current as well as future
species distributions, for example to assess impacts of future environmental change on …

Aims Patterns of species richness, such as the remarkable biodiversity of tropical regions,
have been documented and studied for centuries. However, their underlying evolutionary …

An important factor influencing whether or not a non-native plant species becomes invasive
is the climate in the area of introduction. To become naturalised in the new range, a species …

To understand how the environment drives spatial variation in population dynamics, we
need to assess the effects of a large number of potential drivers on vital rates (survival …

Habitat fragmentation may cause plant species to suffer from inbreeding and genetic drift,
which affects population viability negatively. Less viable populations may contain an altered …