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 traits are a new data currency to enhance our understanding of ecological patterns
and processes. Trait‐based studies of fishes are numerous in comparison with other animal …

Changing climate is forcing many terrestrial and marine species to extend their ranges
poleward to stay within the bounds of their thermal tolerances. However, when such species …

Substrate complexity is strongly related to biodiversity in aquatic habitats. We illustrate a
novel framework, based on Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry (SfM) and Multi-View …

Ecological communities are assembled through a series of multiple processes, including
dispersal, abiotic and biotic filtering, and ecological drift. Although these assembly …

Food partitioning among coexisting species in different habitats remains an important
research topic in trophic ecology. In this work, we combined carbon and nitrogen stable …

Functional diversity is an emergent approach in ecology that has been applied globally to
better understand the relationships between organisms and the environment. However …

Functional traits can be used to identify the importance of various community assembly
mechanisms such as ecological drift, environmental filtering, and limiting similarity. These …

Abstract Skates (Elasmobranchii, Rajiformes) are a morphologically conservative group of
bentophagous chondrichthyan fishes with a high degree of endemism, that occur on marine …

Identifying habitat characteristics that accelerate organismal evolution is essential to
understanding both the origins of life on Earth and the ecosystem properties that are most …