Today's scientists are facing the enormous challenge of predicting how climate change will
affect species distributions and species assemblages. To do so, ecologists are widely using …

Alien species are continually introduced in most regions of the world, but not all survive and
coexist with the resident native species. Approaches analyzing the functional (or …

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1085–1093 Abstract Though many processes are involved in
determining which species coexist and assemble into communities, competition is among …

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 …

Recent hypotheses argue that phylogenetic relatedness should predict both the niche
differences that stabilise coexistence and the average fitness differences that drive …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 782–787 Abstract One of the oldest ecological hypotheses,
proposed by Darwin, suggests that the struggle for existence is stronger between more …

The way species affect one another in ecological communities often depends on the order of
species arrival. The magnitude of such historical contingency, known as priority effects …

Soil ecosystems worldwide are subjected to marked modifications caused by anthropogenic
disturbances and global climate change, resulting in microbial diversity loss and alteration of …

Priority effects, in which the outcome of species interactions depends on the order of their
arrival, are a key component of many models of community assembly. Yet, much remains …