Accurate ecological assemblage analysis requires that underlying taxonomic divisions
reflect biological reality. However, the validity of many taxonomic hypotheses have never …

Ecological indicators are science-based tools used to assess how human activities have
impacted environmental resources. For monitoring and environmental assessment, existing …

The efficiency of biodiversity assessments and biomonitoring studies is commonly
challenged by limitations in taxonomic identification and quantification approaches. In this …

Aim Our aims were to determine whether cross‐taxon congruence of species composition
patterns varies across regions and human disturbance levels and to infer whether these …

Aim An important component of human‐induced global change is the decrease or increase
in community distinctiveness (taxonomic homogenization or differentiation, respectively) that …

Understanding and disentangling different processes underlying the assembly and diversity
of communities remains a key challenge in ecology. Species can assemble into …

Community ecologists commonly perform multivariate techniques (eg, ordination, cluster
analysis) to assess patterns and gradients of taxonomic variation. A critical requirement for a …

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 …

Spatial variation in species composition is one of the most fundamental and conspicuous
features of the natural world. Measures of compositional differentiation and similarity …

Body size descriptors and associated resemblance measurements may provide useful tools
for forecasting ecological responses to increasing anthropogenic land‒use disturbances …