Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

INTRODUCTION Individual processes that shape geographical patterns of biodiversity are
increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales …

The analysis of species diversity has benefited from multiple methodological approaches
that are changing not only the way we measure biodiversity, but also our general …

Aim The number of studies investigating the nestedness and turnover components of beta
diversity has increased substantially, but our general understanding of the drivers of …

Abundance‐based assemblage dissimilarity can be partitioned into components accounting
for (i) balanced variation in abundance, whereby the individuals of some species in one site …

Aim One of the main gaps in the assessment of biodiversity is the lack of a unified framework
for measuring its taxonomic and functional facets and for unveiling the underlying patterns …

Dissimilarity measures can be formulated using matching components that can be defined
as the intersection in terms of species composition of both sets (a) and the relative …

The evolutionary dissimilarity between communities (phylogenetic beta diversity PBD) has
been increasingly explored by ecologists and biogeographers to assess the relative roles of …

The effects of environmental change on biodiversity are still poorly understood. In particular,
the consequences of shifts in species composition for marine ecosystem function are largely …

A major goal in ecology is to understand mechanisms that influence patterns of biodiversity
and community assembly at various spatial and temporal scales. Understanding how …