Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across …

RJ Rolls, DC Deane, SE Johnson, J Heino… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Causes and consequences of biotic homogenization in freshwater ecosystems

DK Petsch - International Review of Hydrobiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenization goes beyond the increase in taxonomic similarity among
communities. It also involves the loss of biological differences in any organizational level …

[LIVRE][B] Metacommunity ecology, volume 59

MA Leibold, JM Chase - 2018 - degruyter.com
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland

W Liu, L Liu, X Yang, M Deng, Z Wang… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) input is known to alter plant and microbial α‐diversity, but how N
enrichment influences β‐diversity of plant and microbial communities remains poorly …

Eutrophication causes microbial community homogenization via modulating generalist species

M Geng, W Zhang, T Hu, R Wang, X Cheng, J Wang - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Eutrophication substantially influences the community structure of aquatic organisms and
has become a major threat to biodiversity. However, whether eutrophication is linked to …

Eutrophication increases the similarity of cyanobacterial community features in lakes and reservoirs

J Zuo, P **ao, J Heino, F Tan, J Soininen, H Chen… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Eutrophication of inland waters is a mostly anthropogenic phenomenon impacting aquatic
biodiversity worldwide, and might change biotic community structure and ecosystem …

The importance of metacommunity ecology for environmental assessment research in the freshwater realm

J Heino - Biological Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Most bioassessment programs rest on the assumption that species have different niches,
and that abiotic environmental conditions and changes therein determine community …

Freshwater eutrophication drives sharp reductions in temporal beta diversity

SC Cook, L Housley, JA Back, RS King - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Eutrophication has become one of the most widespread anthropogenic forces impacting
freshwater biological diversity. One potentially important mechanism driving biodiversity …

Nitrogen addition does not reduce the role of spatial asynchrony in stabilising grassland communities

Y Zhang, J Feng, M Loreau, N He, X Han… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While nitrogen (N) amendment is known to affect the stability of ecological communities,
whether this effect is scale‐dependent remains an open question. By conducting a field …

Evolution of water quality in rainwater harvesting systems during long-term storage in non-rainy seasons

Z Gao, Q Zhang, Y Wang, X Jv, M Dzakpasu… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of rainwater utilization strategies has relied on rainwater harvesting
(RWH) systems for centuries to alleviate the pressure on water resources. However, there …