Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

JA Pilowsky, RK Colwell, C Rahbek, DA Fordham - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have
the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and …

Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects

F Hartig, N Abrego, A Bush, JM Chase… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
New technologies for monitoring biodiversity such as environmental (e) DNA, passive
acoustic monitoring, and optical sensors promise to generate automated spatiotemporal …

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

O Hagen, A Skeels, RE Onstein, W Jetz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity

Y Chauvier, P Descombes, M Guéguen… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are statistical tools that relate species observations to
environmental conditions to retrieve ecological niches and predict species' potential …

Understanding the relationship between dispersal and range size

A Alzate, RE Onstein - Ecology Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The drivers of variability in species range sizes remain an outstanding enigma in ecology.
The theoretical expectation of a positive dispersal‐range size relationship has received …

Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term

M Gray - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 2021 - Elsevier
Using outlines of ten geodiversity-related topics plus some related studies, this paper argues
that geodiversity has contributed to many new insights, new avenues of research and new …

Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace's Line

A Skeels, LM Boschman, IR McFadden, EM Joyce… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Faunal turnover in Indo-Australia across Wallace's Line is one of the most recognizable
patterns in biogeography and has catalyzed debate about the role of evolutionary and …

Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues

H Morlon, S Robin, F Hartig - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
A lot of what we know about past speciation and extinction dynamics is based on statistically
fitting birth–death processes to phylogenies of extant species. Despite their wide use, the …

Freshwater fish diversity in the western Amazon basin shaped by Andean uplift since the Late Cretaceous

LM Boschman, L Carraro, FAS Cassemiro… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
South America is home to the highest freshwater fish biodiversity on Earth, and the hotspot
of species richness is located in the western Amazon basin. The location of this hotspot is …

DeepDive: estimating global biodiversity patterns through time using deep learning

RB Cooper, JT Flannery-Sutherland… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time is a central goal of evolutionary
biology. However, estimates of past biodiversity are challenged by the inherent …