PER‐SIMPER—A new tool for inferring community assembly processes from taxon occurrences

Aim Understanding how ecosystem functioning and evolution shape taxonomic assemblages is a lively debate basically involving two major opposite views: the niche‐ and dispersal‐assembly hypotheses. Here, we introduce a new method allowing for the identification of the first‐order process of assembly underlying a set of taxonomic assemblages. Methods Building on Clarke’s SIMPER (for “similarity percentage”) analysis of a taxon/locality occurrence...