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Process, Mechanism, and Modeling in Macroecology [PDF]

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017
Macroecology has traditionally relied on descriptive characterization of large-scale ecological patterns to offer narrative explanations for the origin and maintenance of those patterns. Only recently have macroecologists begun to employ models termed 'process-based' and 'mechanistic', in contrast to other areas of ecology, where such models have a ...
Connolly, Sean R., Keith, Sally A., Colwell, Robert K., Rahbek, Carsten   +3 more
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A practical guide to species trend detection with unstructured data using local frequency scaling (Frescalo)

Ecography, EarlyView.
Accurately measuring biodiversity change remains a central challenge in ecology. Beyond the general idea of quantifying temporal species frequency changes, several sampling‐related biases in data collection remain key methodological challenges to consider. Long‐term standardized ecological data are rare, and most available datasets exhibit considerable
Romain Goury, Diana E. Bowler, Colin Harrower, Tamara Münkemüller, Jeanne Vallet, Jon M. Yearsley, Wilfried Thuiller, Oliver L. Pescott   +7 more
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Macroecology meets IPBES

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2016
The Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), established in 2012 to counter the biodiversity crisis, requires the best scientific input available to function as a successful science-policy interface that addresses the ...
Christian Hof, D. Matthias Dehling, Aletta Bonn, Neil D. Burgess, Felix Eigenbrod, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Thomas Hickler, Walter Jetz, Elisabeth Marquard, Henrique M. Pereira, Katrin Böhning-Gaese   +10 more
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Decomposing dark diversity affinities of species and sites using Bayesian method: What accounts for absences of species at suitable sites?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Locally observed biodiversity always consists of only a fraction of its site‐specific species pool. Why some suitable species are absent, shaping dark diversity of that site, is a basic yet increasingly crucial question in the face of global biodiversity
Junichi Fujinuma, Meelis Pärtel
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Stochastic and deterministic processes influencing mountain mire diatom communities across spatial scales

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how deterministic and stochastic processes influence the shape of microorganism community assembly across different spatial scales is essential for disentangling biodiversity patterns. Mires are nutrient‐poor and heterogeneous wetlands that form isolated habitats supporting highly diverse diatom assemblages, particularly in mountainous ...
Fernanda Gonzalez‐ Saldias, Angel Rain‐ Franco, Joan Gomà, Jorge García‐ Girón, Aaron Pérez‐ Haase   +4 more
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Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands

Ecography, EarlyView.
Land‐use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Investigating the temporal dynamics of trait‐abundance distributions (TADs) along long‐term time series offers a promising approach to disentangle the influence ...
Nathan Rondeau, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Frédérique Louault, Raphael Martin, Pascal Carrère, Katja Klumpp, Pierre Liancourt, Nicolas Gross   +7 more
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Plant adaptive strategies respond to environmental change across European grassland habitats

Ecography, EarlyView.
Grassland ecosystems are facing rapid and ongoing change driven by intensified land‐use and accelerated climate change, highlighting the urgent need to understand their potential adaptation and response to environmental change. We analyzed data from 52 980 vegetation plots spanning all major grassland habitats in Europe (including alpine, rocky, sandy,
Xiao‐Peng Tan, Petr Pyšek, Milan Chytrý, Irena Axmanová, Jan Divíšek, Ilona Knollová, Svetlana Aćić, Idoia Biurrun, Hans Henrik Bruun, Jürgen Dengler, Tetiana Dziuba, Emmanuel Garbolino, Attila Lengyel, Jonathan Lenoir, Ricarda Pätsch, Aaron Pérez‐ Haase, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Eszter Ruprecht, Urban Šilc, Kiril Vassilev, Yi‐Jun Wang, Wen‐Yong Guo   +21 more
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Differences in the occurrence and abundance of batoids across an oceanic archipelago using complementary data sources: Implications for conservation

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Batoids, distributed from shallow to abyssal depths, are considerably vulnerable to anthropogenic threats. Data deficiencies on the distribution patterns of batoids, however, challenge their effective management and conservation.
Fernando Tuya, Ricardo Aguilar, Fernando Espino, Nestor E. Bosch, Eva K. M. Meyers, David Jiménez‐Alvarado, Jose J. Castro, Francisco Otero‐Ferrer, Ricardo Haroun   +8 more
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Pre‐industrial land‐use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Shrub encroachment has become a global phenomenon in recent decades. While global warming in the Arctic is often cited as the primary cause, human‐managed mountain regions have experienced intense historical land‐use that may also play a considerable role.
Baptiste Nicoud, Florian Carrière, Arthur Bayle, Christian Devlieger, Philippe Choler, Christophe Corona, Sandra Lavorel   +6 more
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Simulating past and future refugia for temperate trees in northern Italy

Ecography, EarlyView.
During the Quaternary, trees responded to the climatic changes of glacial–interglacial cycles with large‐scale range shifts. Over cold glacials, temperate tree species contracted their ranges and survived in areas known as refugia. Several studies point to the Euganean Hills (Colli Euganei), in Veneto, northern Italy, as one of the northernmost ...
Azzurra Pistone, Paul D. Henne, Petra Boltshauser‐ Kaltenrieder, Willy Tinner, Christoph Schwörer   +4 more
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