Neutral models may turn out to serve as effective null models for community ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15, 70-76 (2000). Hillebrand, H. On the generality of the latitudinal diversity ...

In the field of ecology, a similar conundrum exists between the cause and effect relationship between disturbance and diversity. On the one hand, disturbance can clearly influence community-level ...

Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans to forests. But what about the microscopic world? Scientists in UC San Diego ...

Address issues of particular concern to underrepresented and marginalized groups in ecology, including promoting their participation in all aspects of ESA and the wider community. Develop metrics and ...

The results showed that drops in microbiome diversity result in effects that cut across many levels of biological ...

Beta diversity and the scale-dependence of the productivity ... Effects of within- and between-patch processes on community dynamics in a fragmentation experiment. Ecology 82 : 1830-1846. Davies, K. F ...

The journal of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV), known as Plant Sociology from 2012 to 2024, has changed its name to Vegetation Ecology and Diversity and launched a new website.

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Annual Review Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 42: 465-487. Spasojevic, M.J., and K.N. Suding. 2012. Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of ...

By manipulating host-associated microbiome diversity into three levels (low ... microbiomes regulates host physiology, host community ecology, and nutrient cycling, mSystems (2025).