Trait-based assessments of climate-change impacts on interacting species

M Schleuning, EL Neuschulz, J Albrecht… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Plant–animal interactions are fundamentally important in ecosystems, but have often been
ignored by studies of climate-change impacts on biodiversity. Here, we present a trait-based …

Sensitivity of tropical insectivorous birds to the Anthropocene: a review of multiple mechanisms and conservation implications

TW Sherry - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Epigraph:“The house is burning. We do not need a thermometer. We need a fire hose.”(P.
102, Janzen and Hallwachs,). Insectivorous birds are declining widely, and for diverse …

Habitat amount modulates biodiversity responses to fragmentation

H Zhang, JM Chase, J Liao - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

Downsizing of animal communities triggers stronger functional than structural decay in seed-dispersal networks

I Donoso, MC Sorensen, PG Blendinger… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Downsizing of animal communities due to defaunation is prevalent in many ecosystems. Yet,
we know little about its consequences for ecosystem functions such as seed dispersal. Here …

The Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservation

MH Vancine, RL Muylaert, BB Niebuhr… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Atlantic Forest in South America (AF) is one of the world's most diverse and
threatened biodiversity hotspots. We present a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of 34 …

Landscape structure shapes the diversity of plant reproductive traits in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado

F Martello, JS dos Santos, CM Silva-Neto… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
The replacement of native vegetation by crops and pasturelands compromises the functional
diversity of plants and negatively influence ecosystem functions such as pollination and …

Merging theory and experiments to predict and understand coextinctions

DN Morton, A Keyes, AK Barner, LE Dee - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
In an era of mass extinction, predicting the consequences of species loss has become a
priority for ecologists. Extinction of one species can trigger the loss of dependent species …

Extinction of biotic interactions due to habitat loss could accelerate the current biodiversity crisis

ME Sandor, CS Elphick, MW Tingley - Ecological Applications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat loss disrupts species interactions through local extinctions, potentially orphaning
species that depend on interacting partners, via mutualisms or commensalisms, and …

The relationship between landscape construction and bird diversity: A bibliometric analysis

Y Zhang, E Ye, F Liu, N Lai, X You, J Dong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urbanization development is the main cause of drastic habitat changes and biodiversity
loss, and urban green space construction is one of the effective ways to mitigate biodiversity …

The reliability of regional ecological knowledge to build local interaction networks: a test using seed-dispersal networks across land-bridge islands

C Zhu, W Li, A Campos-Arceiz… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Building ecological networks is the fundamental basis of depicting how species in
communities interact, but sampling complex interaction networks is extremely labour …