There is a growing interest in controlling—promoting or avoiding—the invasion of microbial
communities by new community members. Resource availability and community structure …

Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic
methods in ecology, and it serves as a primer to working ecologists and students of ecology …

Introduced species have historically been presumed to be evolutionarily novel and
'different'from native species. Recent studies question these assumptions, however, as the …

Among approaches to establish the importance of niche differentiation for species
coexistence, the use of functional traits is attractive for its potential to suggest specific …

Aim Darwin posed a conundrum about species invasions, postulating the importance of
functional distinctiveness from the receiving native community to avoid competition, and, at …

Darwin's naturalization hypothesis (DNH), which predicts that alien species more distantly
related to native communities are more likely to naturalize, has received much recent …

Disentangling direct and indirect interactions among alien and native plants is essential to
understanding the success of alien plants in multispecies communities, but studies have …

Aim To analyse the underpinnings of historical drivers of diversity and their contributions to
current distributions and future roles in a changing climate, we studied the relationship …

Plant traits affect the success or failure of plants to establish, grow, and reproduce. Although
we have an increased understanding of certain individual plant traits and their relative …

Understanding ecological mechanisms regulating the evolution of biodiversity is of much
interest to ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Adaptive radiation constitutes an important …