Deriving site‐specific species pools from large databases

Defining the species pool of a community is crucial for many types of ecological analyses, providing a foundation to metacommunity, null modelling or dark diversity frameworks. It is a challenge to derive the species pool empirically from large and heterogeneous databases. Here, we propose a method to define a site‐specific species pool (SSSP), i.e. the probabilistic set of species that may co‐occur with the species of a target community. Using...