Effects of habitat quality and fine‐scale spatial structure on epiphytic lichen and bryophyte communities

Abstract With global habitat destruction progressing at an alarming rate, there is an urgent need to understand how species persist in dynamic habitats and how underlying processes influence their spatial distribution. Theories hinge on the principle that individuals of the same species are non‐randomly distributed, and recent work emphasizes that community assembly is shaped by a dynamic interplay of deterministic and spatial processes. In epiphytic lichens and bryophytes, environmental filteri