Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects

F Hartig, N Abrego, A Bush, JM Chase… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024‏ - cell.com
New technologies for monitoring biodiversity such as environmental (e) DNA, passive
acoustic monitoring, and optical sensors promise to generate automated spatiotemporal …

Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts

BI Simmons, PSA Blyth, JL Blanchard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

Linking soil fungi to bacterial community assembly in arid ecosystems

S Jiao, H Chu, B Zhang, X Wei, W Chen, G Wei - Imeta, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Revealing the roles of biotic factors in driving community assembly, which is crucial for the
understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem functions, is a fundamental but infrequently …

The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat

GF Ficetola, S Marta, A Guerrieri, I Cantera, A Bonin… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
The global retreat of glaciers is dramatically altering mountain and high-latitude landscapes,
with new ecosystems develo** from apparently barren substrates,,–. The study of these …

Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation

J García‐Girón, J Heino, F García‐Criado… - …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biotic interactions are fundamental drivers governing biodiversity locally, yet their effects on
geographical variation in community composition (ie incidence‐based) and community …

From environmental DNA sequences to ecological conclusions: How strong is the influence of methodological choices?

I Calderón‐Sanou, T Münkemüller… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly used for analysing and modelling
all‐inclusive biodiversity patterns. However, the reliability of eDNA‐based diversity …

Navigating the integration of biotic interactions in biogeography

W Thuiller, I Calderón‐Sanou… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biotic interactions are widely recognised as the backbone of ecological communities, but
how best to study them is a subject of intense debate, especially at macro‐ecological scales …

Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity for large‐scale angiosperm assemblages in China

H Qian, Y **, F Leprieur, X Wang, T Deng - Ecography, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
A full understanding of the origin and maintenance of β‐diversity patterns in a region
requires exploring the relationships of both taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity (TBD …

The internal structure of metacommunities

MA Leibold, FJ Rudolph, FG Blanchet, L De Meester… - Oikos, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Current analyses of metacommunity data largely focus on global attributes across the entire
metacommunity, such as mean alpha, beta, and gamma diversity, as well as the partitioning …

Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022

N Eisenhauer, SF Bender… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global change is affecting soil biodiversity and functioning across all terrestrial ecosystems.
Still, much is unknown about how soil biodiversity and function will change in the future in …