Overcoming biotic homogenization in ecological restoration

KD Holl, JC Luong, PHS Brancalion - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
Extensive evidence shows that regional (gamma) diversity is often lower across restored
landscapes than in reference landscapes, in part due to common restoration practices that …

The rise of hyperabundant native generalists threatens both humans and nature

JH Moore, L Gibson, Z Amir, W Chanthorn… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In many disturbed terrestrial landscapes, a subset of native generalist vertebrates thrives.
The population trends of these disturbance‐tolerant species may be driven by multiple …

Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series

WB Xu, SA Blowes, V Brambilla, CFY Chow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While human activities are known to elicit rapid turnover in species composition through
time, the properties of the species that increase or decrease their spatial occupancy …

Global impacts of edge effects on species richness

JNG Willmer, T Puettker, JA Prevedello - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Almost all world's forest areas are predicted to be near edges by 2100, making the detection
and prediction of biodiversity responses to edges an urgent need. Yet, idiosyncratic …

Environmental variables drive plant species composition and distribution in the moist temperate forests of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan

IU Rahman, RE Hart, F Ijaz, A Afzal, Z Iqbal, ES Calixto… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
By assessing plant species composition and distribution in biodiversity hotspots influenced
by environmental gradients, we greatly advance our understanding of the local plant …

Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity

M Frietsch, J Loos, K Löhr, S Sieber… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Social-ecological ecosystem restoration involves interacting challenges, including climate
change, resource overexploitation and political instability. To prepare for these and other …

Native or exotic: A bibliographical review of the debate on ecological science methodologies: Valuable lessons for urban green space design

CA de Carvalho, M Raposo, C Pinto-Gomes, R Matos - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Knowledge from ecological sciences is an important reference for landscape design as
Urban Green Spaces (UGS) play a critical role in the ecological protection of cities. There is …

Underlying and proximate drivers of biodiversity changes in Mesoamerican biosphere reserves

DM Auliz-Ortiz, J Benítez-Malvido… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Protected areas are of paramount relevance to conserving wildlife and ecosystem
contributions to people. Yet, their conservation success is increasingly threatened by human …

How many replicates to accurately estimate fish biodiversity using environmental DNA on coral reefs?

S Stauffer, M Jucker, T Keggin, V Marques… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying fish species diversity in rich tropical marine environments remains challenging.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a promising tool to face this challenge …

Effects of human disturbances on wildlife behaviour and consequences for predator-prey overlap in Southeast Asia

SXT Lee, Z Amir, JH Moore, KM Gaynor… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Some animal species shift their activity towards increased nocturnality in disturbed habitats
to avoid predominantly diurnal humans. This may alter diel overlap among species, a …