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Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world's tallest tropical forest [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Abiotic and biotic factors structure species assembly in ecosystems both horizontally and vertically. However, the way community composition changes along comparable horizontal and vertical distances in complex three‐dimensional habitats, and the factors
Shuang Xing +3 more
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N:P stoichiometric changes via species turnover in arid versus saline desert environments [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Aridity and salinity have a key role in driving physiological and ecological processes in desert ecosystems. However, how community‐scale foliar nutrients respond to aridity and salinity, and how these responses might vary with community composition ...
Yan‐Ming Gong +5 more
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Species turnover in plants does not predict turnover in flower-visiting insects. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Congruence between plant and insect diversity is considered possibly useful in conservation planning, as the better known plants could be surrogates for the lesser known insects. There has been little quantification of congruence across space, especially in biodiversity rich areas.
Simaika JP, Samways M, Vrdoljak SM.
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The primacy of species turnover over intraspecific variation in the environmental filtering of understory ferns [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionQuantifying community-level trait shifts, driven by species turnover and intraspecific trait variation (ITV), is essential for understanding environmental filtering and elucidating community assembly and species coexistence.
Yuhan Zhou +8 more
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Widespread slowdown in short-term species turnover despite accelerating climate change [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsWhen the species composition of ecological communities changes over time, environmental drivers are often invoked as the most plausible explanation. Several lines of reasoning, however, suggest that such compositional change, called temporal species ...
Emmanuel C. Nwankwo, Axel G. Rossberg
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Developmental plasticity does not improve performance during a species interaction: Implications for species turnover. [PDF]
EcologyAbstractSpecies interactions can contribute to species turnover when the outcomes of the interactions are context dependent (e.g., change along environmental gradients). Plasticity may change this dynamic by altering the environmental tolerances of the species interacting.
Mauro AA +3 more
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Climate change creates rapid species turnover in montane communities. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2015 AbstractRecent decades have seen substantial changes in patterns of biodiversity worldwide. Simultaneously, climate change is producing a widespread pattern of species’ range shifts to higher latitudes and higher elevations, potentially creating novel assemblages as species shift at different rates. However, the direct link between species’ turnover as
Gibson-Reinemer DK +2 more
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Pitfalls in quantifying species turnover: the residency effect [PDF]
Frontiers of Biogeography, 2014 The composition of ecological communities changes continuously through time and space. Understanding this turnover in species composition is a central goal in biogeography, but quantifying species turnover can be problematic.
Kevin Chase Burns
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Fire, 2023 Western juniper was often historically restricted to fire refugia such as rocky outcrops but has since Euro-American settlement expanded into areas previously dominated by sagebrush steppe. Wildfires in developed woodlands have been rare.
Eva K. Strand, Stephen C. Bunting
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The island–mainland species turnover relationship [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2012 Many oceanic islands are notable for their high endemism, suggesting that islands may promote unique assembly processes. However, mainland assemblages sometimes harbour comparable levels of endemism, suggesting that island biotas may not be as unique as is often assumed.
Stuart, Yoel Eli +2 more
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