Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their
ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and …

Growth in seed dispersal studies has been fast‐paced since the seed disperser
effectiveness (SDE) framework was developed 17 yr ago. Thus, the time is ripe to revisit the …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

The subdiscipline of 'community phylogenetics' is rapidly growing and influencing thinking
regarding community assembly. In particular, phylogenetic dispersion of co‐occurring …

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

How closely does variability in ecologically important traits reflect evolutionary divergence?
The use of phylogenetic diversity (PD) to predict biodiversity effects on ecosystem …

The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

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 …

Host-associated microbiomes harbour hundreds of bacterial species that co-occur, creating
the opportunity for manifold bacteria–bacteria interactions, which in turn contribute to the …

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