One goal central to ecology is to understand how species interactions and biophysical
processes interact over vastly different scales to govern past, current, and future patterns of …

Determining how the relative strength of community assembly processes varies along
resource gradients is critical for understanding community responses to environmental …

Question Understanding how the relative importance of different community assembly
processes changes during secondary succession of diverse systems remains elusive …

Understanding the distribution of species across altitudinal and latitudinal gradients and
how species coexist across space have been two of the most frequently posed questions in …

Background/Questions/Methods: Largescale biodiversity gradients are one of ecology's
most fundamental patterns; yet, for many of these diversity patterns, the existence and …

What controls diversity? The high diversity of many tropical taxa and subsequent decline in
diversity away from the Equator has inspired many theories and much debate. Theories …

Aims Environmental gradients are drivers of species diversity; however, we know relatively
little about the evolutionary processes underlying these relationships. A potentially powerful …

Habitat partitioning is important for understanding the drivers that influence the assembly of
tropical forest communities. Understanding the local-scale effects of environmental gradients …

Species diversity is promoted and maintained by ecological and evolutionary processes that
operate on species attributes through space and time. The degree to which variation in …

Species diversity is promoted and maintained by ecological and evolutionary processes
operating on species attributes through space and time. The degree to which variability in …