The finding that adaptive evolution can often be substantial enough to alter ecological
dynamics challenges traditional views of community ecology that ignore evolution. Here, we …

The concept of biological diversity, or biodiversity, is at the core of evolutionary and
ecological studies. Many indices of biodiversity have been developed in the last four …

Aim Understanding how ecological communities are assembled remains a grand challenge
in ecology with direct implications for charting the future of biodiversity. Trait‐based methods …

Dispersal is a main determinant of community assembly. Landscape configurations of rivers,
lakes, or ponds are often independently considered in this framework. However, these …

Deciphering the effect of neutral and deterministic processes on community assembly is
critical to understand and predict diversity patterns. The information held in community trait …

Although metacommunity ecology has been a major field of research in the last decades,
with both conceptual and empirical outputs, the analysis of the temporal dynamics of …

Despite intensive research on species dissimilarity patterns across communities (ie β‐
diversity), we still know little about their implications for variation in food‐web structures. Our …

Recent work has shown that evaluating functional trait distinctiveness, the average trait
distance of a species to other species in a community offers promising insights into …

Aim Ecological specialization is defined by the variety of environments species occupy.
Identifying the mechanisms that influence specialization is critical to understand patterns of …

The study of ecological networks has progressively evolved from a mostly descriptive
science to one that attempts to elucidate the processes governing the emerging structure of …