Many studies have attempted to disentangle the effects of neutral and niche-mediated processes on community composition using partial Mantel tests and variance partitioning on dissimilarity matrices.

Vol. 39, No. 12, Special Issue: The Ecological Niche as a Window to Biodiversity (December 2012), pp. 2112-2118 (7 pages) In a discussion it is often easier to staunchly reject or offer resolute ...