There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could
be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first envisioned by Forbes …

The study of species co-occurrences has been central in community ecology since the
foundation of the discipline. Co-occurrence data are, nevertheless, a neglected source of …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

The difficulty of experimentally quantifying non‐trophic species interactions has long
troubled ecologists. Increasingly, a new application of the classic “checkerboard distribution” …

The analysis of species co‐occurrence patterns continues to be a main pursuit of ecologists,
primarily because the coexistence of species is fundamentally important in evaluating …

Positive and negative associations between species are a key outcome of community
assembly from regional species pools. These associations are difficult to detect and can be …

A key focus in ecology is to search for community assembly rules. Here we compare two
community modelling frameworks that integrate a combination of environmental and spatial …

Whether species interactions influence species response to environment and species
ranges has always been a central question in ecology. Joint species distribution models …

Two opposing patterns of meta‐community organization are nestedness and negative
species co‐occurrence. Both patterns can be quantified with metrics that are applied to …

Species interactions are dynamic processes that vary across environmental and ecological
contexts, and operate across scale boundaries, making them difficult to quantify …