A meta‐analysis of trait differences between invasive and non‐invasive plant species

M Van Kleunen, E Weber, M Fischer - Ecology letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 235–245 Abstract A major aim in ecology is identifying
determinants of invasiveness. We performed a meta‐analysis of 117 field or experimental …

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

BJ McGill, M Dornelas, NJ Gotelli… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

MFJ Aronson, FA La Sorte, CH Nilon… - … of the royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Urbanization contributes to the loss of the world's biodiversity and the homogenization of its
biota. However, comparative studies of urban biodiversity leading to robust generalities of …

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

EC Ellis, N Ramankutty - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Humans have fundamentally altered global patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem
processes. Surprisingly, existing systems for representing these global patterns, including …

[BOOK][B] Urban ecology: science of cities

RTT Forman - 2014 - books.google.com
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools

MFJ Aronson, CH Nilon, CA Lepczyk, TS Parker… - Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of humanity now lives in cities or towns, with this proportion expected to
continue increasing for the foreseeable future. As novel ecosystems, urban areas offer an …

Plant biodiversity change across scales during the Anthropocene

M Vellend, L Baeten, A Becker-Scarpitta… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Plant communities have undergone dramatic changes in recent centuries, although not all
such changes fit with the dominant biodiversity-crisis narrative used to describe them. At the …

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 …

[BOOK][B] Urban ecology: patterns, processes, and applications

J Niemelä, JH Breuste, G Guntenspergen, NE McIntyre… - 2011 - books.google.com
Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is
therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns …

MINI‐REVIEW: Habitat analogues for reconciliation ecology in urban and industrial environments

JT Lundholm, PJ Richardson - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Current views of anthropogenic environments emphasize the extreme novelty of urban and
industrial ecosystems. Proponents of reconciliation ecology argue that we need to use such …