Hordijk, Iris Bialic‐murphy, Lalasia Lauber, Thomas Routh, Devin Poorter, Lourens ter Steege, Hans Liang, Jingjing De‐miguel, Sergio Nabuurs, Gert‐jan Zhou, Mo
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Aim: Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the follow...
Sexton, Aaron Beisel, Jean-Nicolas Staentzel, Cybill Wolter, Christian Tales, Evelyne Belliard, Jérôme Buijse, Anthonie Martínez Fernández, Vanesa Wantzen, Karl Jähnig, Sonja
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Inland navigation in Europe is proposed to increase in the coming years, being promoted as a low-carbon form of transport. However, we currently lack knowledge on how this would impact biodiversity at large scales and interact with existing stressors. Here we addressed this knowledge gap by analysing fish and macroinvertebrate community time series...
An, Nannan Lu, Nan Wang, Mengyu Chen, Yongzhe Wu, Fuzhong Fu, Bojie
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The Science of the total environment
Understanding the spatial variability of ecosystem functions is an important step forward in predicting changes in ecosystems under global transformations. Plant functional traits are important drivers of ecosystem functions such as net primary productivity (NPP). Although trait-based approaches have advanced rapidly, the extent to which specific p...
Chan, Wei-Ping Lenoir, Jonathan Mai, Guan-Shuo Kuo, Hung-Chi Chen, I-Ching Shen, Sheng-Feng
Mountain ranges contain high concentrations of endemic species and are indispensable refugia for lowland species that are facing anthropogenic climate change 1,2 . Forecasting biodiversity redistribution hinges on assessing whether species can track shifting isotherms as the climate warms 3,4 . However, a global analysis of the velocities of isothe...
ter Steege, Hans Barbier, Nicolas Slik, Ferry Sonké, Bonaventure Adu-Bredu, Stephen Affum-Baffoe, Kofi Aiba, Shin-Ichiro Alonso, Alfonso Andrade, Ana Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
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Abstract Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Her...
Cooper, Declan L. M. Lewis, Simon L. Sullivan, Martin J. P. Prado, Paulo I. ter Steege, Hans Barbier, Nicolas Slik, Ferry Sonké, Bonaventure Ewango, Corneille E. N. Adu-Bredu, Stephen
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Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we inve...
Bree, Baptiste
Depuis les premières observations de Darwin et Wallace, les radiations évolutives présentes sur les archipels océaniques (ROAs) n'ont cessé d'être étudiées par la communauté scientifique, et ont notamment joué un rôle majeur dans notre compréhension des mécanismes écologiques et évolutifs à l'origine de la biodiversité. La quantité d'information di...
Sabatini, Francesco Maria Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja Jandt, Ute Chytrý, Milan Field, Richard Kessler, Michael Lenoir, Jonathan Schrodt, Franziska Wiser, Susan K. Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S.
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Nature Communications
Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.
Howard, Christine Marjakangas, Emma-Liina Morán-Ordóñez, Alejandra Milanesi, Pietro Abuladze, Aleksandre Aghababyan, Karen Ajder, Vitalie Arkumarev, Volen Balmer, Dawn E Bauer, Hans-Günther
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Nature communications
Climate change has been associated with both latitudinal and elevational shifts in species' ranges. The extent, however, to which climate change has driven recent range shifts alongside other putative drivers remains uncertain. Here, we use the changing distributions of 378 European breeding bird species over 30 years to explore the putative driver...
Lauer, Daniel A. Lawing, A. Michelle Short, Rachel A. Manthi, Fredrick K. Müller, Johannes Head, Jason J. McGuire, Jenny L.
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Nature Communications
Mammalian megafaunal biodiversity has declined since the Plio-Pleistocene. Here, the authors apply ecometric methods to evaluate the functional link between eastern African herbivorous megafauna and their environments, showing that some biodiversity loss coincided with community ecological function disturbance.