The use of functional diversity analyses in ecology has grown exponentially over the past
two decades, broadening our understanding of biological diversity and its change across …

Species traits are an essential currency in ecology, evolution, biogeography, and
conservation biology. However, trait databases are unavailable for most organisms …

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

Revealing regional distribution and diversity of abundant and rare bacterial communities in
different cropping systems are crucial to predict trends of microbial changes in farmlands …

The widespread use of species traits in basic and applied ecology, conservation and
biogeography has led to an exponential increase in functional diversity analyses, with> 10 …

Abstract The cold Last Glacial Maximum, around 20,000 years ago, provides a useful test
case for evaluating whether climate models can simulate climate states distinct from the …

Disentangling the factors governing community structure across various spatial and
temporal scales is a core task in community ecology and biogeography, because it could …

Questions Geographic gradients of beta‐diversity help understanding the relationship
between species and their environment. However, on a global scale, such patterns are only …

Identifying areas that contain species assemblages not found elsewhere in a region is
central to conservation planning. 1, 2 Species assemblages contain networks of species …

A long-standing but poorly tested hypothesis in plant ecology and evolution is that biotic
interactions play a more important role in producing and maintaining species diversity in the …