Disturbances alter biodiversity via their specific characteristics, including severity and extent
in the landscape, which act at different temporal and spatial scales. Biodiversity response to …

Three metrics of species diversity–species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson
index–are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid critiques leveled against …

The latitudinal gradient in species richness, with more species in the tropics and richness
declining with latitude, is widely known and has been assumed to be stable over recent …

One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth.
However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties …

Landscape dynamics are widely thought to govern the tempo and mode of continental
radiations, yet the effects of river network rearrangements on dispersal and lineage …

Species' geographic ranges are limited by climate and species interactions. Climate is the
prevailing explanation for why species live only within narrow elevational ranges in …

Over the last 50 years, access to new data and analytical tools has expanded the study of
analytical paleobiology, contributing to innovative analyses of biodiversity dynamics over …

Based on sampling data, we propose a rigorous standardization method to measure and
compare beta diversity across datasets. Here beta diversity, which quantifies the extent of …

Biodiversity is a multifaceted concept covering different levels of organization from genes to
ecosystems. Biodiversity has at least three dimensions:(a) Taxonomic diversity (TD): a …

The study of ancient cultures is hindered by the incomplete survival of material artifacts, so
we commonly underestimate the diversity of cultural production in historic societies. To …