Jonathan and colleagues publish a paper in Journal of Biogeography titled “Multiple processes jointly determine ecological uniqueness across forest plant life-forms in Northeast China”. Thanks to Yue Chen and Xugao Wang for leading this project!
Figure: Conceptual model of expected relationships between ecological uniqueness (i.e. local contributions to beta diversity indices) across plant life-forms and regional climate filtering (i.e., current and paleoclimate climate), local environmental filtering (i.e., topography and soil), biotic heterogeneity (i.e., forest structure consists of stem density, tree size variation, total basal area and species richness across plant life-forms) and disturbance intensity.