Global sustainability rests on a myriad of benefits provided by natural ecosystems that
support human livelihoods and well-being, from biodiversity persistence to climate …

Few ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the ecology and evolution of the
campo rupestre, an ancient azonal peinobiome characterized by a fire-prone, nutrient …

Aim Identifying macroecological patterns and biases in species distribution is a challenging
but essential task in biodiversity‐oriented studies. Despite extensive attempts to find …

Plant-pollinator studies are increasingly using network analysis to investigate the structure
and function of such communities. However, many areas of high biodiversity largely remain …

Understanding community assembly in habitat patches requires an integrative approach,
considering the potential role of local and regional factors and organisms' dispersal abilities …

This paper is an introduction to the special issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society entitled OCBIL theory: a new science for old ecosystems. Firstly, we elaborate on the …

The Earth's most diverse group of organisms is facing an imminent crisis, as recent
investigations suggest a remarkable decline in insect diversity. Within this context …

Ecological communities vary considerably in space and time and understanding such
changes has fundamental relevance for ecology and conservation sciences. Mountains …

Geographical background and dispersal ability may strongly influence assemblage
dissimilarity; however, these aspects have generally been overlooked in previous large …

Metacommunity ecology studies how species compositional patterns and their distributions
vary across local and regional scales and provides insights on processes driving the …