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 …

Biodiversity assessment remains one of the most difficult challenges encountered by ecologists
and conservation biologists. This task is becoming even more urgent with the current …

Diversity and dissimilarity within and between species assemblages have now been studied
for more than half a century by community ecologists in relation to their connections with …

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

Functional diversity is at the heart of current research in the field of conservation biology.
Most of the indices that measure diversity depend on variables that have various statistical …

Assessing trait responses to environmental gradients requires the simultaneous analysis of
the information contained in three tables: L (species distribution across samples), R (…

Bioacoustics is historically a discipline that essentially focuses on individual behaviour in
relation to population and species evolutionary levels but rarely in connection with higher …

Ecophylogenetics can be viewed as an emerging fusion of ecology, biogeography and
macroevolution. This new and fast‐growing field is promoting the incorporation of evolution and …

Question Which functional diversity indices have the power to reveal changes in community
assembly processes along abiotic stress gradients? Is their power affected by stochastic …

Biodiversity assessment is one of the major challenges for ecology and conservation. With
current increase of biodiversity loss during the last decades, there is an urgent need to quickly …