Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges

HJB Birks, VA Felde, AE Bjune, JA Grytnes… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

Sparing land for biodiversity at multiple spatial scales

J Ekroos, AM Ödman, GKS Andersson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
A common approach to the conservation of farmland biodiversity and the promotion of
multifunctional landscapes, particularly in landscapes containing only small remnants of non …

[كتاب][B] Metacommunity ecology, volume 59

MA Leibold, JM Chase - 2018‏ - degruyter.com
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

The species pool concept as a framework for studying patterns of plant diversity

M Zobel - Journal of Vegetation Science, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Co‐existence theories fail to adequately explain observed community patterns (diversity and
composition) because they mainly address local extinctions. For a more complete …

Effect of landscape connectivity on plant communities: a review of response patterns

L Uroy, A Ernoult, C Mony - Landscape ecology, 2019‏ - Springer
Context Fragmentation in agricultural landscapes is considered as a major threat to
biodiversity. Thus, ecological corridors are deployed at multiple scales to increase …

Estimating dark diversity and species pools: an empirical assessment of two methods

RJ Lewis, R Szava‐Kovats… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species absent from a community but with the potential to establish (dark diversity) are an
important, yet rarely considered component of habitat‐specific species pools. Quantifying …

Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data

CP Carmona, M Pärtel - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim The species pool specific for a site includes all species from the region that are
theoretically able to live in the site's particular ecological conditions. The absent portion of …

Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation

RJ Lewis, F de Bello, JA Bennett, P Fibich… - Conservation …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Linking diversity to biological processes is central for develo** informed and effective
conservation decisions. Unfortunately, observable patterns provide only a proportion of the …

Exotic or not, leaf trait dissimilarity modulates the effect of dominant species on mixed litter decomposition

GE Finerty, F de Bello, K Bílá, MP Berg… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
It has long been recognized that leaf traits exert a crucial control on litter decomposition, a
key process for nutrient cycling, and that invading species can greatly alter such soil …

Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands

P Scherreiks, MM Gossner, D Ambarlı, M Ayasse… - Landscape …, 2022‏ - Springer
Context Current diversity and species composition of ecological communities can often not
exclusively be explained by present land use and landscape structure. Historical land use …