Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently
facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures …

Results of diversity and community ecology studies strongly depend on sampling depth.
Completely surveyed communities follow log‐normal distribution, whereas power law …

When replicate count data are overdispersed, it is common practice to incorporate this extra-
Poisson variability by including latent parameters at the observation level. For example, the …

Little is known about the effects of anthropogenic land‐use change on the amphibians and
reptiles of the biodiverse tropical forests of Southeast Asia. We studied a land‐use …

Here we review recent advances in characterizing pattern of variation in community structure
in space and time based on parametric approaches utilizing the full distribution of …

Spatial variation in species composition is one of the most fundamental and conspicuous
features of the natural world. Measures of compositional differentiation and similarity …

Aim Geographic spread and range expansion of species into novel environments may
merge originally separated species assemblages, yet the possible drivers of geographic …

Despite the recognition of positive interactions as an important driver of species coexistence
and community structure, the underlying mechanism of how facilitation affects assembly …

Currently, our knowledge of fungal ecology in engineered drinking water systems is limited,
despite the potential for these systems to serve as a reservoir for opportunistic pathogens. In …

La investigación analizó y evaluó las prácticas agrícolas campesinas en la cuenca del río
Cormechoque, en Boyacá (Colombia), y su efecto sobre el desempeño productivo …