Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

A Gonzalez, RM Germain, DS Srivastava… - Ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily
focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale …

A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change

A Gonzalez, JM Chase… - … Transactions of the …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

[HTML][HTML] A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity

M Roswell, J Dushoff, R Winfree - Oikos, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[كتاب][B] Joint species distribution modelling: With applications in R

O Ovaskainen, N Abrego - 2020‏ - books.google.com
Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-develo** field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

RL Carvalho, AF Resende, J Barlow, FM França… - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time, 1, 2 and attempts to address it
require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental …

Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead

M Dornelas, JM Chase, NJ Gotelli… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in the context of widespread human
modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how biodiversity has changed in recent …

Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

T Cordier, L Alonso‐Sáez… - Molecular …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data

JG Hagan, B Vanschoenwinkel, L Gamfeldt - Ecology Letters, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Our current, empirical understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem
function is based on two information sources. First, controlled experiments which show …

The undetectability of global biodiversity trends using local species richness

JW Valdez, CT Callaghan, J Junker, A Purvis… - …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although species are being lost at alarming rates, previous research has provided
conflicting results on the extent and even direction of global biodiversity change at the local …

More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

U Jandt, H Bruelheide, F Jansen, A Bonn, V Grescho… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Long-term analyses of biodiversity data highlight a 'biodiversity conservation paradox':
biological communities show substantial species turnover over the past century,, but …