To gain insight into the ecological processes driving community reassembly in disturbed ecosystems, we assessed the phylogenetic dispersion of earlyand late-successional tree species occurring in lowland forests of northeastern Costa Rica. Early-successional species were more closely related than expected by chance, whereas late-successional species tended to be less closely related than expect...

Key messageThe use of structural diversity indices can be efficient tools to increase understanding changes in soil carbon storage as a key ecosystem function along the oak dieback intensity.Investigating relationships between biodiversity and functions within mass‐ratio niche complementary hypotheses is still challenging issue terrestrial ecology. These have not been studied gradient disturban...

The study of assembly rules fish communities in Neotropical floodplain lakes represents a major interest community ecology due to their high species diversity and environmental variation, both spatial temporal. In this study, freshwater fishes Lake Mamo were explored. main goals research analyse the seasonal variations taxonomic functional diversities sandbanks patches aquatic macrophytes, orde...

Understanding species diversity and disturbance relationships is important for biodiversity conservation in disturbance-driven boreal forests. Species richness and evenness may respond differently with stand development following fire. Furthermore, few studies have simultaneously accounted for the influences of climate and local site conditions on species diversity. Using forest inventory data,...

introduction agricultural biodiversity has spatial, temporal and scale dimensions especially at agro-ecosystem levels. these agro-ecosystems that are used for agriculture are determined by three sets of factors: the genetic resources (biodiversity), the physical environment and the human management practices. most agricultural areas can be returned to their natural landscape after subsequent ge...