Caio Graco-Roza

Mar 29, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stefano Mammola |Finnish Museum |Caio Graco-Roza |Francesco Ballarin

1 INTRODUCTION An omnipresent scheme in introductory textbooks of ecology illustrates the numerous filters selecting which species end up assembling into local communities from a regional pool. An elusive problem concerning this ‘filtering’ metaphor is quantifying the relative contribution of abiotic and biotic factors in shaping communities (Chalmandrier et al., 2022; Kraft et al., 2015; Lamanna et al., 2014).