Concepts

The positive relationship between species richness and the surveyed area, described by the power-law S=cA^z where c is the intercept and z measures the rate of community turnover

The identity and relative abundance of species within an ecological community

Alpine plants growing in clumps with multiple species interacting in close proximity, affecting microhabitats and species interactions

Environmental processes that filter trait values admitted by changing abiotic and biotic conditions, maintaining trait distributions through phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation

Selective feeding behavior of herbivores that favors certain plant traits or genotypes over others

Evolutionary divergence time between species measured in millions of years, calculated from molecular phylogenetic reconstructions

Model developed to determine LARs based on SAR and simple properties of food webs including species richness, number of links and connectance

When clustered plants experience facilitative interactions that cause leaves to be cooler relative to surrounding soils

Differential responses between sexes to environmental variation potentially creating imbalance in the frequency of males and females