Specialization is a concept based on a broad theoretical framework developed by
evolutionary biologists and ecologists. In the past 10 years, numerous studies have reported …

Ecological specialization is one of the main concepts in ecology and conservation. However,
this concept has become highly context‐dependent and is now obscured by the great …

Aim Species introductions and extinctions have reorganized the earth's biota, often leaving
formerly spatially distinct assemblages more similar in species composition, a process …

Global patterns in species richness have resisted explanation since they first caught the
attention of ecologists in the 1960s. The failure of ecology to fully integrate the diversity issue …

Disentangling the mechanisms mediating the coexistence of habitat specialists and
generalists has been a long-standing subject of investigation. However, the roles of species …

In this paper, we tested whether the spatial distribution of a given species in more or less
fragmented and disturbed landscapes depends on the species habitat specialization. We …

The composition of communities is strongly altered by anthropogenic manipulations of
biogeochemical cycles, abiotic conditions, and trophic structure in all major ecosystems …

One of the oldest challenges in ecology is to understand the processes that underpin the
composition of communities. Historically, an obvious way in which to describe community …

The widespread replacement of native species with cosmopolitan, nonnative species is
homogenizing the global fauna and flora. While the empirical study of biotic homogenization …

Current patterns of global change can strongly affect biodiversity at global, regional and
local scales. At global scales, habitat destruction and the introduction of exotic species are …