Both statistical ecology and environmental statistics have numerous challenges and opportunities in the waiting for the twenty-first century, calling for increasing numbers of nontraditional statistical approaches. Both theoretical and applied ecology are using advancing data analytical and interpretational software and hardware to satisfy public policy and discovery research, variously incorpo...

The assembly of local communities is the result of the tension between local, often negative, and possibly deterministic interactions, and larger-scale environmental or dispersal constraints or stochastic events (Berlow, 1997; Levine, 2000; Lovette & Hochachka, 2006). Larger-scale environmental conditions and dispersal limitation filter a larger pool of potential colonists into one that include...

Yan Zhu, Liza S. Comita, Stephen P. Hubbell and Keping Ma* State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbu...

1Department of Biology, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA [[email protected]]; 2Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045 USA [[email protected]]; 3Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia 23909 USA [[email protected]]; 4Department of Ec...

Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa, Environmental Resource Management Department (ERMD), Westlake Conservation Office, City of Cape Town, Ou Kaapse Weg, Tokai 7966, Cape Town, South Africa, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden, Stellenbosch Institute for A...

territorial display Terry J. Ord*, David C. Collar and Thomas J. Sanger Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, and the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052 Australia; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95060 USA; and Museum of...

J. Fang ([email protected]), X. Wang, Y. Liu and Z. Tang, Dept of Ecology, College of Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking Univ., CN-100871 Beijing, PR China. JF also at: State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Inst. of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN-100093 Beijing, PR China. XW also at: Key La...

Richard G. FitzJohn†, Matthew W. Pennell*†, Amy E. Zanne, Peter F. Stevens, David C. Tank and William K. Cornwell Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6G 1Z4, Canada; Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolution...