Indices quantifying the functional aspect of biodiversity are essential in understanding
relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental constraints …

The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

The subdiscipline of 'community phylogenetics' is rapidly growing and influencing thinking
regarding community assembly. In particular, phylogenetic dispersion of co‐occurring …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1085–1093 Abstract Though many processes are involved in
determining which species coexist and assemble into communities, competition is among …

Ecologists are increasingly adopting an evolutionary perspective, and in recent years, the
idea that closely related species are ecologically similar has become widespread. In this …

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 …

Ecological specialization is one of the main concepts in ecology and conservation. However,
this concept has become highly context‐dependent and is now obscured by the great …

Plant functional traits vary both along environmental gradients and among species
occupying similar conditions, creating a challenge for the synthesis of functional and …

Evolutionary ecologists are increasingly combining phylogenetic data with distributional and
ecological data to assess how and why communities of species differ from random …