Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Biodiversity conservation strategies increasingly target maintaining evolutionary history and
the resilience of ecosystem function, not just species richness (SR). This has led to the …

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 …

Aim The aim was to identify drivers of historical freshwater fish community assembly by
testing for interactions between functional traits and two climatic gradients, namely elevation …

Saproxylic beetles depend on diverse microhabitats that are exploited by different species
assemblages. We focused on analysing the functional trait patterns and functional diversity …

Aim Giant clams are iconic bivalves known to serve numerous ecological roles contributing
to the functioning of coral reef ecosystems. In the next decade, giant clams will continue to …

Aim Most studies of diversity changes along elevational gradients show a synchronous
change in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity, such that all decline with …

Species richness exhibits well-known patterns across elevational gradients in various taxa,
but represents only one aspect of quantifying biodiversity patterns. Functional and …

Although research has been done in order to understand the impact of urban development
on avian diversity, it mainly focused on taxonomic diversity. Here we aimed to assess …

Post-fire succession is an ideal case for studying effects of disturbance on community
assembly, and the key is to disentangle the contributions of assembly processes to the …