Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Species' evolutionary histories shape their present‐day ecologies, but the integration of
phylogenetic approaches in ecology has had a contentious history. The field of …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Phylogenies are essential to studies investigating the effect of evolutionary history on
assembly of species in ecological communities and geographical and ecological patterns of …

Understanding the processes that drive the dramatic changes in biodiversity along the
productivity gradient remains a major challenge. Insight from simple, bivariate relationships …

Abstract Aim Environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly used for analysing and modelling
all‐inclusive biodiversity patterns. However, the reliability of eDNA‐based diversity …

There is a growing interest in using trait-based approaches to characterize the functional
structure of animal communities. Quantitative methods have been derived mostly for plant …

The extent that biotic interactions and dispersal influence species ranges and diversity
patterns across scales remains an open question. Answering this question requires framing …

Assembly of grassland communities has long been scrutinized through the lens of functional
diversity. Studies generally point to an overwhelming influence of climate on observed …

Describing how ecological interactions change over space and time and how they are
shaped by environmental conditions is crucial to understand and predict ecosystem …