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| Decoupled phylogenetic and functional diversity in European grasslands
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| Divergent responses of functional diversity to an elevational gradient for vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens
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| Deposit-feeding worms control subsurface ecosystem functioning in intertidal sediment with strong physical forcing
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| Hierarchical trait filtering at different spatial scales determines beetle assemblages in deadwood
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| Functional diversity in ferns is driven by species richness rather than by environmental constraints
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| Pleistocene climate oscillations and habitat connectivity contributed to avian beta-diversity in the megadiverse Colombian Paramo ecosystems
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| Scale dependency of joint species distribution models challenges interpretation of biotic interactions
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| Including intraspecific trait variability to avoid distortion of functional diversity and ecological inference: lessons from natural assemblages
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| Disentangling the drivers of local species richness using probabilistic species pools
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| Experimental assembly reveals ecological drift as a major driver of root nodule bacterial diversity in a woody legume crop
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| A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels
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| Disentangling the processes driving plant assemblages in mountain grasslands across spatial scales and environmental gradients
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| Long-term regeneration of a tropical plant community after sand mining
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| Assessing species saturation: conceptual and methodological challenges
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| Resprouter fraction in Cape Restionaceae assemblages varies with climate and soil type
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| Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments
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| An horizon scan of biogeography
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| Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly
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| Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities
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