Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

Because biodiversity is multidimensional and scale‐dependent, it is challenging to estimate
its change. However, it is unclear (1) how much scale‐dependence matters for empirical …

Although habitat loss is the predominant factor leading to biodiversity loss in the
Anthropocene,, exactly how this loss manifests—and at which scales—remains a central …

The increasing urbanization process is hypothesized to drastically alter (semi‐) natural
environments with a concomitant major decline in species abundance and diversity. Yet …

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 …

Our planet is facing significant changes of biodiversity across spatial scales. Although the
negative effects of local biodiversity (α diversity) loss on ecosystem stability are well …

When habitats are lost, species are lost in the region as a result of the sampling process.
However, it is less clear what happens to biodiversity in the habitats that remain. Some have …

Mitigating and adapting to climate change requires an understanding of the magnitude and
nature by which climate change will influence the diversity of plants across the world's …

Issue Biodiversity change, that is how the taxonomic identities and abundances of species in
ecological systems are changing over time, has two facets: temporal α diversity and …

Biodiversity metrics often integrate data on the presence and abundance of multiple species.
Yet our understanding of covariation between changes to the numbers of individuals, the …