A central goal in ecology is to understand the spatial scaling of biodiversity. Patterns in the
spatial distribution of organisms provide important clues about the underlying mechanisms …

Patterns in the spatial distribution of organisms provide important information about
mechanisms that regulate the diversity of life and the complexity of ecosystems,. Although …

Abstract Analysis of patterns in the distribution of taxa can provide important insights into
ecological and evolutionary processes. Microbial biogeographic patterns almost always …

Geographic range size can span orders of magnitude for plant and animal species, with the
study of why range sizes vary having preoccupied biogeographers for decades. In contrast …

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 …

Scaling laws underpin unifying theories of biodiversity and are among the most predictively
powerful relationships in biology. However, scaling laws developed for plants and animals …

Understanding how species diversity is maintained is a foundational problem in ecology and
an essential requirement for the discipline to be effective as an applied science. Ecologists' …

Patterns of diversity within large regional biotas express the outcomes of processes,
operating on both regional and local scales, that influence evolutionary diversification as …

Macroecology examines the relationship between organisms and their environment at large
spatial (and temporal) scales. Typically, macroecologists explain the large‐scale patterns of …

Abundance and specificity are two key characteristics of species distribution and
biodiversity. Theories of species assembly aim to reproduce the empirical joint patterns of …