Stochastic dispersal assembly dominates tropical invertebrate community assembly regardless of land use intensity.

Understanding how community assembly processes drive biodiversity patterns is a central goal of community ecology. While it is generally accepted that ecological communities are assembled by both stochastic and deterministic processes, quantifying their relative importance remains challenging. Even fewer studies have investigated how the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic community assembly processes vary among taxa and along gradients of habitat degradation. Using data on 1,002 invertebrate species across six taxonomic groups in Malaysian Borneo, we quantified the importance of stochastic and deterministic community assembly processes across a gradient of logging intensity. Dispersal limitation was the dominant process at all levels of logging intensity. The relationship between logging and community assembly varied depending on the specific combination of taxa and stochasticity metric used, but, in general, the processes that govern invertebrate community assembly were remarkably robust to changes in land use intensity. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.