Recent hypotheses argue that phylogenetic relatedness should predict both the niche
differences that stabilise coexistence and the average fitness differences that drive …

The way species affect one another in ecological communities often depends on the order of
species arrival. The magnitude of such historical contingency, known as priority effects …

In order to be transmitted, a pathogen must first successfully colonize and multiply within a
host. Ecological principles can be applied to study host-pathogen interactions to predict …

A long‐standing hypothesis in ecology and evolutionary biology is that closely related
species are more ecologically similar to each other and therefore compete more strongly …

Over the years, several arguments have been proposed to explain the invasibility of a given
community based on the properties of the recipient community. Here, I assessed whether the …

A longstanding concept in community ecology is that closely related species compete more
strongly than distant relatives. Ecologists have invoked this “limiting similarity hypothesis” to …

Darwin's naturalization hypothesis (DNH) proposes that colonization is less likely when the
colonizing species is related to members of the invaded community, because evolutionary …

Range size variation in closely related species suggests different responses to biotic and
abiotic heterogeneity across large geographic regions. Species turnover generates a wide …

Attempts to investigate the drivers of invasion success are generally limited to the biological
and evolutionary traits distinguishing native from introduced species. Although alien species …

An assumption often made by ecologists and phylogeneticists—that closely related species
possess similar traits and ecology—can be extended into the hypothesis that closely related …