Understanding the processes sha** biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

There is little consensus about how natural (eg productivity, disturbance) and anthropogenic
(eg invasive species, habitat destruction) ecological drivers influence biodiversity. Here, we …

Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species
richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of global species …

Aim We conducted the most extensive quantitative analysis yet undertaken of the form taken
by the island species–area relationship (ISAR), among 20 models, to determine:(1) the best …

Co‐existence theories fail to adequately explain observed community patterns (diversity and
composition) because they mainly address local extinctions. For a more complete …

Although the maintenance of diversity of living systems is critical for ecosystem functioning,
the accelerating pace of global change is threatening its preservation. Standardized …

Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …

Patterns in species incidence and compositional turnover are central to understanding what
drives biodiversity. Here we propose zeta (ζ) diversity, the number of species shared by …

Studies along elevational gradients worldwide usually find the highest plant taxa richness in
mid-elevation forest belts. Hence, an increase in upper elevation diversity is expected in the …

Aim We undertook the largest comparative study to date of the form of the island species–
area relationship (ISAR) using 207 habitat island datasets and 601 true island datasets. We …