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Geodiversity is an inseparable but underutilized aspect of ecological connectivity assessments under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Conservation has shifted towards a climate change adaptation approach in which expected species range shifts are increasingly considered to mitigate effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. As part of this, ecological connectivity needs to be ensured to support gene flow and viable populations in the face of changing ...
Aino‐Maija Määttänen, Maria Hällfors, Julia Kemppinen   +2 more
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
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A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring

Ecography, EarlyView.
The rapid adoption of environmental DNA (eDNA) methods has drastically changed biodiversity monitoring efforts. It is often claimed that eDNA methods are more sensitive and efficient than conventional biodiversity monitoring methods, but it is often unclear what metrics support this claim.
Nicholas J. Iacaruso, Olivia P. Reves, Sara J. Merkelz, Cassidy L. Waldrep, Mark A. Davis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘MultiTraits': an integrated R package for analysis and visualization of multidimensional plant traits

Ecography, EarlyView.
The multidimensional characteristics of plant traits and their trade‐offs are central to ecology. However, there is a lack of systematic and standardized tools for analyzing these intricate relationships. To fill this gap, we developed the ‘MultiTraits' R package, which incorporates four complementary analytical modules: competitors–stress tolerators ...
Yan He, Zhaogang Liu, Jiangshan Lai, Lingfeng Mao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deforestation impacts soil biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Qu X, Li X, Bardgett RD, Kuzyakov Y, Revillini D, Sonne C, Xia C, Ruan H, Liu Y, Cao F, Reich PB, Delgado-Baquerizo M.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Warming summers limit reindeer grazing, weakening herbivory pressure in the mountain tundra

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change is predicted to alter species interactions by exposing ecosystems to increasingly frequent and intense warm spells. In the mountain tundra, grazing by large herbivores, particularly reindeer, can limit shrub expansion and preserve Arctic plant diversity.
Marianne Stoessel, Akiko Kato, Regina Lindborg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities

Ecography, EarlyView.
Despite extensive research, stabilizing mechanisms in ecosystems remain uncertain. Taylor's power law (TPL) is a pervasive ecological pattern that describes how variance scales with mean abundance (σ2 = aμᵇ). While TPL has been widely studied within populations, its role across species within communities and its implications for stability remain ...
Clara Gracia, Jules Segrestin, Jan Lepš, Peter B. Adler, Susan P. Harrison, Lars Götzenberger, Enrique Valencia, Víctor Lecegui, Manuele Bazzichetto, Roberto Canullo, Stefano Chelli, Jürgen Dengler, Jiri Dolezal, David J. Eldridge, Franz Essl, Felícia M. Fischer, Anaclara Guido, Lauren Hallet, Tomas Herben, Norbert Hölzel, Anke Jentsch, Miklós Kertész, Xiaofei Li, Gábor Ónodi, Robin J. Pakeman, Alain Paquette, Kersti Pussa, Anita C. Risch, Marta Rueda, Wolfgang Schmidt, Ute Schmiedel, Zhiwei Zhong, Martin Zobel, Francesco de Bello   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Hu Z, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Fanin N, Chen X, Zhou Y, Du G, Hu F, Jiang L, Hu S, Liu M.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Invasive earthworms erode soil biodiversity: A meta-analysis. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol, 2018
Ferlian O, Eisenhauer N, Aguirrebengoa M, Camara M, Ramirez-Rojas I, Santos F, Tanalgo K, Thakur MP.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental heterogeneity and spatial variation mediates plant diversity and ecosystem stability in mountain ecosystems of the Mediterranean Andes

Ecography, EarlyView.
Globally, mountains are highly diverse ecosystems that serve as natural laboratories for testing ecological theories, while providing vital ecosystem services. Their biodiversity arises from the interaction between elevational gradients and topographic complexity, which generate strong variation in environmental conditions across short spatial scales ...
Laura C. Pérez‐Giraldo, José M. Cerda‐ Paredes, Dylan Craven, Javier Lopatin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source