Contributions of spatial point process modelling to biodiversity theory
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented decline in biodiversity that has led to a growing concern about the consequences of biodiversity loss for the functioning of ecosystems. Key research in plant community ecology seeks to reveal the mechanisms that allow a large number of species to coexist and sustain biodiversity. Processes in plant communities are predominantly local and interactions take place in a spatial context. They thus need to be modelled from the individual plants’ perspective. Several...