Although research on the role of competitive interactions during community assembly began
decades ago, a recent revival of interest has led to new discoveries and research …

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

A primary goal of ecology is to understand the fundamental processes underlying the
geographic distributions of species. Two major strands of ecology–habitat modelling 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 …

Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the
phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities. The package calculates …

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 …

Phylogenetic diversity (PD) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among
species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on the factors that …

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 …