1. Species absent from a community but with the potential to establish (dark diversity) are an important, yet rarely considered component of habitat-specific species pools. Quantifying this component remains a challenge as dark diversity cannot be observed directly and must be estimated. Here, we empirically test whether species ecological requirements or species co-occurrences provide accur…
Questions: What is the significance of climate and land-use management as determinants of plant species composition of Scotland’s soft coasts, and how are these determinants spatially scaled? What is the relative contribution of different community assembly processes in governing the coastal plant communities of an important national resource? Location: Scotland, UK. Methods: We used na…