The Aegean archipelago, comprising numerous islands and islets with great heterogeneity
in topographic, geological, historical and environmental properties, offers an ideal natural …

Nestedness is a common biogeographic pattern in which small communities form proper
subsets of large communities. However, the detection of nestedness in binary presence …

The unique properties of terrestrial isopods regarding responses to limiting factors such as
drought and temperature have led to interesting distributional patterns along climatic and …

A statistical challenge in community ecology is to identify segregated and aggregated pairs
of species from a binary presence–absence matrix, which often contains hundreds or …

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 …

Aim To test whether congeneric species are significantly associated with one another in
space, either positively or negatively. Also, to provide a framework for a causal investigation …

A main challenge associated with macro ecological gradients such as the latitudinal
diversity gradient (LDG) is that proxies of potential underlying processes are often correlated …

The most commonly used old‐growth forest indicators are structural attributes; nevertheless,
they do not necessarily represent the biodiversity value of old‐growth forests. The aim of this …

Experimental evidence suggests that larger plant species generally have a competitive
advantage and thus should dominate communities where competition for limiting resources …

Distributions of species often exhibit nested structure, such that assemblages at species‐
poor sites are proper subsets of taxa at more species‐rich sites. Traditionally, this has been …