The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our
understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines, particularly conservation …

Correlation and association analyses are one of the most widely used statistical methods in
research fields, including microbiome and integrative multiomics studies. Correlation and …

Microplastics contaminate environments worldwide and are ingested by numerous species,
whose health is affected in multiple ways. A key dimension of health that may be affected is …

Microbial ecology as a scientific field is fundamentally driven by technological advance. The
past decade's revolution in DNA sequencing cost and throughput has made it possible for …

Hill numbers or the effective number of species are increasingly used to quantify species
diversity of an assemblage. Hill numbers were recently extended to phylogenetic diversity …

Biological Diversity provides an up to date, authoritative review of the methods of measuring
and assessing biological diversity, together with their application. The book's emphasis is on …

One of the oldest challenges in ecology is to understand the processes that underpin the
composition of communities. Historically, an obvious way in which to describe community …

Ecosystem stability in variable environments depends on the diversity of form and function of
the constituent species. Species phenotypes and ecologies are the product of evolution, and …

Realistic measures of biodiversity should reflect not only the relative abundances of species,
but also the differences between them. We present a natural family of diversity measures …

Unravelling biosphere feedback mechanisms is crucial for predicting the impacts of global
warming. Soil priming, an effect of fresh plant-derived carbon (C) on native soil organic …