Ecological fitting is the process whereby organisms colonize and persist in novel
environments, use novel resources or form novel associations with other species as a result …

Biological diversity depends on the interplay between evolutionary diversification and
ecological mechanisms allowing species to coexist. Current research increasingly integrates …

Question: How can we link genotypic, phenotypic, individual, population, and community
levels of organization so as to illuminate general ecological and evolutionary processes and …

Biodiversity is comprised of genetic and phenotypic variation among individual organisms,
which might belong to the same species or to different species. Spatial patterns of …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 841–851 Abstract Ecological specialisation concerns all species
and underlies many major ecological and evolutionary patterns. Yet its status as a unifying …

Recent phylogenetic studies have documented high levels of conservatism in ecological
traits that seem at odds with the traditional view that organisms can readily adapt to different …

The tenet that ecological opportunity drives adaptive diversification has been central to
theories of speciation since Darwin, yet no widely accepted definition or mechanistic …

Ecological speciation is the process by which barriers to gene flow between populations
evolve due to adaptive divergence via natural selection. A relatively unexplored area in …

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

Species enter and persist in local communities because of their ecological fit to local
conditions, and recently, ecologists have moved from measuring diversity as species …