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The combined effects of resource landscapes and herbivory on pollination services in agro‐ecosystems Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Tal Shapira, Frank M. Schurr, Sonja Fischer, Neal Jeuken, Moshe Coll, Yael Mandelik
Pollinator activity is affected by landscape‐scale flower availability, and by pollinator interactions with co‐occurring organisms. Of special interest are potentially detrimental effects of herbivores on the attractiveness of plants to pollinators. While insect herbivores are abundant in natural and agro‐ecosystems, the combined effect of herbivory and landscape floral resources on pollinator activity
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Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 L. Camila Pacheco‐Riaño, Sabine Rumpf, Tuija Maliniemi, Suzette G. A. Flantua, John‐Arvid Grytnes
Climate warming has triggered shifts in plant distributions, resulting in changes within communities, characterized by an increase in warm‐demanding species and a decrease in cold‐adapted species – referred to as thermophilization. Researchers conventionally rely on co‐occurrence data from vegetation assemblages to examine these community dynamics. Despite the increasing availability of presence‐only
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Fruit–frugivore dependencies are important in Ebolavirus outbreaks in Sub‐Saharan Africa Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Mekala Sundaram, Mireya Dorado, Benedicta Akaribo, Antoine Filion, Barbara A. Han, Nicole L. Gottdenker, John P. Schmidt, John M. Drake, Patrick R. Stephens
Ebolaviruses have the ability to infect a wide variety of species, with many African mammals potentially serving either as primary reservoirs or secondary amplifying hosts. Previous work has shown that frugivorous bats and primates are often associated with spillover and outbreaks. Yet the role that patterns of biodiversity, either of mammalian hosts or of common fruiting species such as Ficus (figs
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Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Victoria Formoso‐Freire, Andrés Baselga, Carola Gómez‐Rodríguez
Unified models of biological diversity across organizational levels (genes, species, communities) provide key insight into fundamental ecological processes. Theory predicts that the strength of the correlation between species abundance and genetic diversity should be related to community age in closed communities (i.e. abundant species accumulate more genetic diversity over time than rare species)
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Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Isaac W. Park, Tadeo Ramirez‐Parada, Sydne Record, Charles Davis, Aaron M. Ellison, Susan J. Mazer
Forecasting the impacts of changing climate on the phenology of plant populations is essential for anticipating and managing potential ecological disruptions to biotic communities. Herbarium specimens enable assessments of plant phenology across broad spatiotemporal scales. However, specimens are collected opportunistically, and it is unclear whether their collection dates – used as proxies of phenological
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Present and future situation of West Nile virus in the Afro‐Palaearctic pathogeographic system Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 José‐María García‐Carrasco, Lucrecia Souviron‐Priego, Antonio‐Román Muñoz, Jesús Olivero, Julia E. Fa, Raimundo Real
West Nile virus (WNV) is a globally widespread arthropod‐borne virus that poses a significant public health concern. Mosquitoes transmit the virus in an enzootic cycle among birds, which act as reservoirs. Climate plays a crucial role in these outbreaks as mosquitoes are highly influenced by climatic conditions, and bird migrations are also affected by weather patterns. Consequently, changes in climate
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Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jan Clavel, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, Sylvia Haider, Keith McDougall, Martin A. Nuñez, Jake Alexander, Agustina Barros, Ann Milbau, Tim Seipel, Anibal Pauchard, Eduardo Fuentes‐Lillo, Amanda Ratier Backes, Pervaiz Dar, Zafar A. Reshi, Alla Aleksanyan, Shengwei Zong, José Ramón Arevalo Sierra, Valeria Aschero, Erik Verbruggen, Ivan Nijs
We assessed the impact of road disturbances on the dominant mycorrhizal types in ecosystems at the global level and how this mechanism can potentially lead to lasting plant community changes. We used a database of coordinated plant community surveys following mountain roads from 894 plots in 11 mountain regions across the globe in combination with an existing database of mycorrhizal–plant associations
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First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Felix Vaux, Elahe Parvizi, Grant A. Duffy, Ludovic Dutoit, Dave Craw, Jonathan M. Waters, Ceridwen I. Fraser
Large‐scale disturbance events provide ideal opportunities to directly study recolonisation processes in natural environments, via the removal of competitors and the formation of newly vacant habitat. A high magnitude earthquake in central New Zealand in 2016 created major ecological disturbance, with coastal tectonic uplift of up to ~ 6 m extirpating vast swathes of intertidal organisms. One of the
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Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Ali Omer, Franz Essl, Stefan Dullinger, Bernd Lenzner, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Dietmar Moser, Trevor Fristoe, Wayne Dawson, Patrick Weigelt, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Mark van Kleunen, Johannes Wessely
Alien species can have massive impacts on native biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human livelihoods. Assessing which species from currently cultivated alien floras may escape into the wild and naturalize is essential for efficient and proactive ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. Climate change has already promoted the naturalization of many alien plants in temperate regions
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Predicting time‐at‐depth weighted biodiversity patterns for sharks of the North Pacific Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Zachary A. Siders, Lauren B. Trotta, William Patrone, Fabio P. Caltabellotta, Katherine B. Loesser, Benjamin Baiser
Depth is a fundamental and universal driver of ocean biogeography but it is unclear how the biodiversity patterns of larger, more mobile organisms change as a function of depth. Here, we developed a predictive biogeography model to explore how information of mobile species' depth preferences influence biodiversity patterns. We employed a literature review to collate shark biotelemetry studies and used
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Unraveling microbial community structure–function relationships in the horizontal and vertical spatial dimensions in extreme environments Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Xin Jing, Aimée T. Classen, Daijiang Li, Litao Lin, Mingzhen Lu, Nathan J. Sanders, Yugang Wang, Wenting Feng
A fundamental challenge in soil macroecology is to understand how microbial community structure shapes ecosystem function along environmental gradients of the land surface at broad spatial scales (i.e. the horizontal dimension). However, little is known about microbial community structure–function relationships in extreme environments along environmental gradients of soil depth at finer spatial scales
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Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Michiel P. Boom, W. Daniel Kissling
Understanding geographic ranges and species distributions is crucial for effective conservation, especially in the light of climate and land use change. However, the spatial, temporal and intraspecific resolution of digital accessible information on species distributions is often limited. Here, we suggest to make better use of high‐resolution tracking data to address existing limitations of occurrence
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From earthquakes to island area: multi-scale effects upon local diversity Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Liam A. Trethowan, Fabian Brambach, Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Yves Laumonier, Douglas Sheil, J. W. Ferry Slik, Campbell O. Webb, Agustinus Murdjoko, Meredith L. Bastian, Kuswata Kartawinata, Asryaf Mansor, Muhammad Mansur, Edi Mirmanto, Eddy Nurtjahya, Andrea Permana, Andes H. Rozak, Peter Wilkie, Zakaria Rahmad, Deby Arifiani, I. Putu Gede P. Damayanto, Carmen Puglisi, Rani Asmarayani, Nithanel M. H.
Tropical forests occupy small coral atolls to the vast Amazon basin. They occur across bioregions with different geological and climatic history. Differences in area and bioregional history shape species immigration, extinction and diversification. How this effects local diversity is unclear. The Indonesian archipelago hosts thousands of tree species whose coexistence should depend upon these factors
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Changing species dominance patterns of Boreal‐Arctic heathlands: evidence of biotic homogenization Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Kari Anne Bråthen, Maria Tuomi, Jutta Kapfer, Hanna Böhner, Tuija Maliniemi
Heathlands are extensive systems often dominated by slow‐growing and long‐lived woody plants. These systems require longer‐term studies to capture if and how they are changing over time. In 2020, we resurveyed species richness and cover of vascular plant communities in 139 heathlands along the coastline of northern Fennoscandia, first surveyed during 1965–1975. The first survey included six heathland
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Bird‐mediated endozoochory as a potential dispersal mechanism of bony fishes Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Ádám Lovas‐Kiss, László Antal, Attila Mozsár, Krisztián Nyeste, Dóra Somogyi, Balázs Kiss, Richárd Tóth, Flórián Tóth, Dorottya Lilla Fazekas, Zoltán Vitál, Béla Halasi‐Kovács, Pál Tóth, Nándor Szabó, Viktor Löki, Orsolya Vincze, Balázs András Lukács
The dispersal of fish into distant and isolated habitats remains a topic of continuous discussion in the field of fish biogeography. This is particularly relevant due to the perceived limitation of fish movement to what is known as active dispersal. Fish migration is often confined to interconnected water bodies, underscoring the significance of dispersal for fish inhabiting isolated aquatic habitats
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The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 María Leo, François Rigal, Cristina Ronquillo, Paulo A. V. Borges, Eduardo Brito de Azevedo, Ana M. C. Santos
Beta diversity patterns are essential for understanding how biological communities are structured. Geographical and environmental factors, as well as species dispersal ability, are important drivers of beta diversity, but their relative importance may vary across spatial scales. In this study, we evaluate whether beta diversity changes across geographical scales and analyse how different drivers affect
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Dealing with area‐to‐point spatial misalignment in species distribution models Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Bastien Mourguiart, Mathieu Chevalier, Martin Marzloff, Nathalie Caill‐Milly, Kerrie Mengersen, Benoit Liquet
Species distribution models (SDMs) are extensively used to estimate species–environment relationships (SERs) and predict species distribution across space and time. For this purpose, it is key to choose relevant spatial grains for predictor and response variables at the onset of the modelling process. However, environmental variables are often derived from large‐scale climate models at a grain that
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The demise of enemy release associated with the invasion of specialist folivores on an invasive tree Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Vladimír Medzihorský, Richard Mally, Jiří Trombik, Marek Turčáni, Michaela Medzihorská, Etsuko Shoda‐Kagaya, Grant D. Martin, Stephanie Sopow, Kaori Kochi, Andrew M. Liebhold
There is a long history of humans either intentionally or accidentally moving plant species to areas outside of their native ranges. In novel environments, populations of many of these plant species exhibit explosive population growth and spread, in part due to the absence of coevolved enemies such as herbivorous insects. However, over time such enemies can ‘catch up' with their host and re‐establish
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Unveiling the impacts of land use on the phylogeography of zoonotic New World Hantaviruses Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Gabriel E. García‐Peña, André V. Rubio
Billions of genomic sequences and records of species occurrence are available in public repositories (e.g. National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF). By implementing analytical tools from different scientific disciplines, data mining these databases can aid in the global surveillance of zoonotic pathogens that circulate among wildlife
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Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Andrea Paz, Thomas Lauber, Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen
Over the past decade, the use of future climate projections from the coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP) has become central in biodiversity science. Pre‐packaged datasets containing future projections of the widely used bioclimatic variables, for different times and socio‐economic pathways, have contributed immensely to the study of climate change implications for biodiversity. However, these
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Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Luigi Cao Pinna, Laure Gallien, Laura J. Pollock, Irena Axmanová, Milan Chytrý, Marco Malavasi, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Juan Antonio Campos, Marta Carboni
The Mediterranean Basin has historically been subject to alien plant invasions that threaten its unique biodiversity. This seasonally dry and densely populated region is undergoing severe climatic and socioeconomic changes, and it is unclear whether these changes will worsen or mitigate plant invasions. Predictions are often biased, as species may not be in equilibrium in the invaded environment, depending
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Potential use of poultry farms by wild waterfowl in California's Central Valley varies across space, times of day, and species: implications for influenza transmission risk Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Claire S. Teitelbaum, Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Elliott L. Matchett, Fiona McDuie, Austen A. Lorenz, Joshua T. Ackerman, Susan E. W. De La Cruz, Diann J. Prosser
Interactions between wildlife and livestock can lead to cross‐species disease transmission, which incurs economic costs and threatens wildlife conservation. Wild waterfowl are natural hosts of avian influenza viruses (AIVs), are often abundant near poultry farms, and have been linked to outbreaks of AIVs in poultry. Interspecific and seasonal variation in waterfowl movement and habitat use means that
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Disentangling mechanisms that mediate soil fungal α and β diversity during forest secondary succession Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Xiao Zhang, Biao Dong, Yongtao Huang, Handan Dai, Zhu Yang, Shenglei Fu, Qiang Li, Yidan Yuan, Yuhua Tan, Huan Li, Shirong Liu
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity is a central, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial ecology. Although species pools and local assembly processes are believed to play non-negligible roles in shaping the within-community (α) and among-community (β) diversity of microbial communities, their relative importance as succession progresses remains elusive. Moreover, the roles
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Biogeographic affiliation and centers of richness as predictors of elevational range-size patterns for Malesian flora Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Melissa Whitman, Sabrina E. Russo
Our goal was to interrogate the idea that “mountain passes are higher in the tropics” by investigating ecological and biogeographic drivers of elevational range-sizes patterns among equatorial flora. We used herbarium records for 60 species-rich plant families, representing 18 535 species total, to estimate distributions over a 4500 m elevational gradient. For each family, we estimated the change in
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Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kwaku Peprah Adjei, Claire Carvell, Nick J. B. Isaac, Francesca Mancini, Robert B. O'Hara
Integrated distribution models (IDMs), in which datasets with different properties are analysed together, are becoming widely used to model species distributions and abundance in space and time. To date, the IDM literature has focused on technical and statistical issues, such as the precision of parameter estimates and mitigation of biases arising from unstructured data sources. However, IDMs have
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Layer-specific imprints of traits within a plant–herbivore–predator network – complementary insights from complementary methods Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Kate L. Wootton, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Andrew Liston, Tommi Nyman, Laura G. A. Riggi, Jens-Peter Kopelke, Tomas Roslin, Dominique Gravel
Who interacts with whom is a key question in community and network ecology. The concept that these interactions may be driven by a match between the traits of consumer and resource species is known as trait-matching. If trait-matching would allow for general predictions of interaction structure based on sufficiently few and easily-measurable traits, then this approach could replace the laborious description
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Climate, host ontogeny and pathogen structural specificity determine forest disease distribution at a regional scale Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Maria Caballol, Francesc Serradó, Irene Barnes, J. Julio Camarero, Cristina Valeriano, Michele Colangelo, Jonàs Oliva
Predicting forest health at a regional level is challenging as forests are simultaneously attacked by multiple pathogens. Usually, the impacts of each pathogen are studied separately, however, interactions between them can affect disease dynamics. Pathogens can interact directly by competing for the same niche, but also facilitate or suppress each other via indirect effects through the host. We studied
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The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 John P. Draper, Julie K. Young, Noelle G. Beckman, Trisha B. Atwood
Differences in seed dispersal patterns can alter plant distributions, species persistence, plant community composition, and biotic carbon sequestered within a landscape. Though carnivorans are known to be frugivorous, their contribution to seed dispersal is marginally studied, especially compared to other sympatric dispersers such as passerines. This gap is important to understand because carnivorans
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Individual and temporal variation in movement patterns of wild alpine reindeer and implications for disease management Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tilde Katrina Slotte Hjermann, Ivar Herfindal, Irja Ida Ratikainen, Olav Strand, Geir Rune Rauset
Animal behaviour is important for prevalence and outbreaks of infectious diseases, for instance by affecting individual interactions. Increasing the knowledge of individual movement patterns can provide better insight into disease prevalence and spread, helping to target efforts to minimise disease outbreaks. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease affecting cervids. CWD is transmitted
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Predicting niche overlap with model-based ordination Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Bert van der Veen, Robert B. O'Hara, Francis K.C. Hui, Knut A. Hovstad
The ecological niche is a fundamental concept in ecology that can be used in order better understand species relationships. The overlap in species niches provides a measure of the likelihood for species to co-occur. Most approaches that quantify niche overlap have been based on distance and similarity indices, for pairwise combinations of species. In this paper, we suggest that niche overlap can be
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Contrasting drivers of aboveground woody biomass and aboveground woody productivity in lowland forests of Colombia Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Nicolas Castaño, Miguel A. Peña, Sebastián González-Caro, Ana María Aldana, Luisa Fernanda Casas, Diego F. Correa-Gómez, Juan S. González-Abella, Natalia Pelaez, Pablo Stevenson, Sonia Sua, Daniel Zuleta, Álvaro Duque
The relative importance of abiotic and biotic factors in shaping forest biomass stocks and fluxes remains a controversial issue. Here, using data gathered from 39 1 ha plots located in flooded and terra firme mature tropical lowland forests of the Amazon and Orinoquia regions of Colombia, we evaluated the importance of climate, soil fertility, and flooding, as well as tree taxonomic/phylogenetic diversity
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Climatic variability, spatial heterogeneity and the presence of multiple hosts drive the population structure of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum and the epidemiology of Sudden Oak Death Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Melina Kozanitas, Brian J. Knaus, Javier F. Tabima, Niklaus J. Grünwald, Matteo Garbelotto
We implement a population genetics approach to clarify the role that temporal and environmental variability, spatially distinct locations and different hosts may have in the epidemiology of a plant disease and in the microevolution of its causative pathogen. In California and southern Oregon (USA), the introduction of the invasive pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, causal agent of the widespread disease
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‘phyloraster': an R package to calculate measures of endemism and evolutionary diversity for rasters Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Gabriela Alves-Ferreira, Flávio Mariano Machado Mota, Daniela Custódio Talora, Cynthia Valéria Oliveira, Mirco Solé, Neander Marcel Heming
The spatial exploration of richness, endemism, and evolutionary diversity patterns has become an important part of biogeographic research and conservation planning. As the volume and complexity of biogeographical and phylogenetic data increase, the need for efficient tools to manipulate and analyze these datasets becomes essential. The 'phyloraster' package addresses this need by facilitating the analysis
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Top ten hazards to avoid when modeling species distributions: a didactic guide of assumptions, problems, and recommendations Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mariano Soley-Guardia, Diego F. Alvarado-Serrano, Robert P. Anderson
Species distribution models, also known as ecological niche models or habitat suitability models, have become commonplace for addressing fundamental and applied biodiversity questions. Although the field has progressed rapidly regarding theory and implementation, key assumptions are still frequently violated and recommendations inadvertently overlooked. This leads to poor models being published and
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Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Eamonn I. F. Wooster, Daniel Ramp, Erick J. Lundgren, Gavin T. Bonsen, Angelica Geisler-Edge, Dror Ben-Ami, Alexandra J. R. Carthey, Scott Carroll, Oded Keynan, Yael Olek, Adam O'Neill, Uri Shanas, Arian D. Wallach
Introduced predators are thought to be responsible for the decline and extinction of their native prey. The prey naivety hypothesis provides a mechanism for these declines, suggesting that native prey are vulnerable to introduced predators as their coevolutionary history is insufficiently long for antipredator behaviours to fully develop. The prey naivety hypothesis thus predicts that prey will be
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Long-term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Fabio Weiss, Henrik von Wehrden, Andreas Linde
Evidence for widespread declines in arthropods is growing and climate change is one of the suspected drivers. Recent droughts in Europe were unprecedented in the previous centuries and we are only beginning to understand the impacts on ecosystems. We analysed a 24-year dataset of carabid beetles from a temperate forest area in northeast Germany and investigated linear and non-linear trends in carabid
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Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Juan David González-Trujillo, Manuel Mendoza, Miguel B. Araújo
Studying past community dynamics can provide valuable insights for anticipating future changes in the world's biota. However, the existing fossil record is too sparse to enable continuous temporal reconstructions of wholesale community dynamics. In this study, we utilise machine learning to reconstruct Late Quaternary community structure, leveraging the climate–trophic structure relationship. We followed
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Afromontane understory birds increase in body size over four decades Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg, Morgan W. Tingley, William D. Newmark
Of the myriad responses to climate change, an emerging trend is the widespread decrease in animal body size with warming temperatures. Birds, in particular, have been shown to be decreasing in body size in several areas – most notably the Amazon Basin and temperate North America – but trends in much of the world remain unexplored. Here, we analyze temporal trends and climatic associations of body mass
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How and why species are rare: towards an understanding of the ecological causes of rarity Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Varina E. Crisfield, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Dominique Gravel
The three-dimensional rarity typology proposed by Rabinowitz in 1981, based on geographic range, habitat specificity, and local abundance, is among the most widely used frameworks for describing rarity in ecological and conservation research. While this framework is descriptive and is not meant to explain the causes of rarity, recent advances in ecology may be leveraged to add explanatory power. Here
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‘RISDM‘: species distribution modelling from multiple data sources in R Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Scott D. Foster, David Peel, Geoffrey R. Hosack, Andrew Hoskins, David J. Mitchell, Kirstin Proft, Wen-Hsi Yang, David E Uribe-Rivera, Jens G. Froese
Species distribution models (SDMs) are usually based on a single data type, such as presence-only (PO), presence-absence (PA) or abundance (AA). Results from SDMs using single sources of data will suffer from inherent biases and limitations to that data type. For example, PO data contain sampling-bias and PA/AA data are often less expansive and more sparse. Integrated SDMs (ISDMs) combine multiple
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A mismatch between community assembly and abundance-based diversity indices Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Matthew Vere Edmonds, Jennifer L. Bufford, William Godsoe
Long-term ecological studies have consistently reported slower than expected changes in biodiversity over time. One explanation for this phenomenon is that commonly used diversity measurements such as species richness are too coarse to detect mechanisms shaping community assembly. Theory suggests that similar phenomena may occur in abundance-based diversity measurements, but the extent of this problem
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Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Roberto Novella-Fernandez, Loïc Chalmandrier, Roland Brandl, Stefan Pinkert, Dirk Zeuss, Christian Hof
Our understanding of how biotic interactions influence animal community assembly is largely restricted to local systems due to the difficulty of obtaining ecologically meaningful assemblage data across large spatial extents. Here, we used thousands of spatio-phenologically high-resolution assemblages across three distinct European regions together with a functional diversity approach to understand
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Contrasting effects of beekeeping and land use on plant–pollinator networks and pathogen prevalence in Mediterranean semiarid ecosystems Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Vicente Martínez-López, Carlos Ruiz, Mathias M. Pires, Pilar De la Rúa
Pollinators are fundamental for plant reproduction in natural and agricultural ecosystems. However, their populations are declining worldwide, threatening the functioning of the ecosystem service they provide. The factors driving this change are manifold, but land use changes and interspecific transmission of pathogens between managed and wild bees are prominent. In this context, most research efforts
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Present status, future trends, and control strategies of invasive alien plants in China affected by human activities and climate change Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Fei Qin, Bao-Cai Han, Rainer W. Bussmann, Tian-Tian Xue, Yun-Fen Liang, Wen-Di Zhang, Qin Liu, Tian-Xiang Chen, Sheng-Xiang Yu
Invasive alien plants (IAPs) have serious environmental and economic impacts, especially in vulnerable areas of China. However, IAP richness distribution patterns, their driving factors, and the dynamic shifts in potential distribution areas remain elusive. We assessed IAP richness distribution patterns and drivers using 402 IAPs recorded in China at 88 926 occurrence points, and then predicted their
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Drivers and mechanisms that contribute to microbial β-diversity patterns and range sizes in mountains across a climatic variability gradient Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Yazhou Zhang, J. Aaron Hogan, Thomas W. Crowther, Shijia Xu, Rensheng Zhao, Pengfei Song, Mufeng Cui, Xiaoyang Song, Min Cao, Jie Yang
Microbial communities are highly diverse, yet the mechanisms underlying microbial community assembly are not well understood. Janzen's mountain passes hypothesis proposed that climatic barriers and dispersal limitation shape communities to a greater extent in mountains with lower climatic variability and overlap, permitting higher levels of species coexistence. Here, we investigate changes in microbial
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A meta-analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Alexis M. Heckley, Lauren R. Lock, Daniel J. Becker
Habitat degradation can increase zoonotic disease risks by altering infection dynamics in wildlife and increasing wildlife–human interactions. Bats are an important taxonomic group to consider these effects, because they harbour many relevant zoonotic viruses and have species- and context-dependent responses to degradation that could affect zoonotic virus dynamics. Yet our understanding of the associations
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Ecosystem indicators: predicting population responses to combined climate and anthropogenic changes in shallow seas Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Neda I. Trifonova, Beth E. Scott
Crowded seas are becoming a pressing management problem with the increased development of offshore renewable energy (ORE) to combat climate change. Marine ecosystems are complex and varied; therefore, we need new tools to help rapidly increase our understanding of how they are likely to change with both climate and anthropogenic changes. This study uses a pragmatic data-driven Bayesian network approach
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Accounting for the topology of road networks to better explain human-mediated dispersal in terrestrial landscapes Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Charles Rocabert, Serge Fenet, Bernard Kaufmann, Jérôme M. W. Gippet
Human trade and movements are central to biological invasions worldwide. Human activities not only transport species across biogeographical barriers, but also accelerate their post-introduction spread in the landscape. Thus, by constraining human movements, the spatial structure of road networks might greatly affect the regional spread of invasive species. However, few invasion models have accounted
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Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Kryštof Chytrý, Norbert Helm, Karl Hülber, Dietmar Moser, Johannes Wessely, Johannes Hausharter, Andreas Kollert, Andreas Mayr, Martin Rutzinger, Manuela Winkler, Harald Pauli, Patrick Saccone, Mariana Paetzolt, Peter Hietz, Stefan Dullinger
Complex topography regulates near-surface temperature above the treeline. It may thus sustain microrefugia for alpine plants and relax the need of shifting upward when the climate warms. The effectiveness of these microrefugia rests on the premise that plant distributions in alpine landscapes are mainly controlled by fine-scale topographic variation.
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Decomposing biodiversity change to processes of extinction, colonization, and recurrence across scales Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 François Leroy, Jiří Reif, Zdeněk Vermouzek, Karel Šťastný, Eva Trávníčková, Vladimír Bejček, Ivan Mikuláš, Petr Keil
Temporal biodiversity change involves colonization, extinction, and recurrence of species. These processes vary with spatial grain (i.e. the area at which biodiversity is assessed), but there is little theory to explain this. Here, we present theoretical scenarios showing that colonization, extinction, and recurrence of species can either increase or decrease in strength across grain size. We tested
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Citizen science data reveal altitudinal movement and seasonal ecosystem use by hummingbirds in the Andes Mountains Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Cristina Rueda-Uribe, Leonel Herrera-Alsina, Lesley T. Lancaster, Isabella Capellini, Kara K. S. Layton, Justin M. J. Travis
Ensuring connectivity is crucial to protect landscapes but it requires knowledge about how animals use ecosystems throughout the year. However, animal movements remain largely unknown in biodiversity hotspots, even for species that fulfill key ecological roles, as is the case of hummingbirds in the Andes. In the complex topography of mountain slopes, movement of these avian pollinators may occur either
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Latitudinal distributions of the species richness, phylogenetic diversity, and functional diversity of fleas and their small mammalian hosts in four geographic quadrants Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Boris R. Krasnov, Vasily I. Grabovsky, Irina S. Khokhlova, Maria Fernanda López Berrizbeitia, Sonja Matthee, Uri Roll, Juliana P. Sanchez, Georgy I. Shenbrot, Luther van der Mescht
We studied latitudinal patterns in the species richness (SR), the phylogenetic diversity (PD), and the functional diversity (FD) of fleas and their mammalian hosts. We asked whether these patterns in either fleas, hosts, or both 1) conform to a classical latitudinal gradient; 2) vary geographically; and 3) differ between fleas and hosts. We also asked whether the patterns of PD and FD follow those
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BACKLAND: spatially explicit and high-resolution pollen-based BACKward LAND-cover reconstructions Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Clara Plancher, Florence Mazier, Thomas Houet, Cédric Gaucherel
Studying the interactions between humans, land-cover and biodiversity is necessary for the sustainable management of socio-ecosystems and requires long-term reconstructions of past landscapes, improving the integration of slow processes. The main source of information on past vegetation is fossil pollen, but pollen data are biased by inter-taxonomic differential production and dispersal. The landscape
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How pondscapes function: connectivity matters for biodiversity even across small spatial scales in aquatic metacommunities Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Barbara Barta, Attila Szabó, Beáta Szabó, Robert Ptacnik, Csaba F. Vad, Zsófia Horváth
Habitat loss and fragmentation are growing global threats to natural habitats and their networks, posing significant challenges to biodiversity conservation. Globally, ponds are sharply declining in number because their small size makes them highly vulnerable to land use changes. While it is generally agreed that connectivity in habitat networks is crucial for sustaining biodiversity, the effect of
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How far can I extrapolate my species distribution model? Exploring shape, a novel method Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Santiago José Elías Velazco, Miranda Brooke Rose, Paulo De Marco, Helen M. Regan, Janet Franklin
Species distribution and ecological niche models (hereafter SDMs) are popular tools with broad applications in ecology, biodiversity conservation, and environmental science. Many SDM applications require projecting models in environmental conditions non-analog to those used for model training (extrapolation), giving predictions that may be statistically unsupported and biologically meaningless. We
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Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Hsiao-Hang Tao, Chun-Wei Chang, Chih-hao Hsieh
Ample evidence has indicated shifts in distribution of fish populations in response to environmental stress. However, most studies focused at the whole population scale. This neglects the spatial dynamics between groups of different body size (body size groups), that fundamentally shapes the spatial structure of a population. Here, we explored the mechanisms that modulate spatial dynamics of body size
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Global biogeographical regions reveal a signal of past human impacts Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Marta Rueda, Manuela González-Suárez, Eloy Revilla
Ecologists have long documented that the world's biota is spatially organised in regions with boundaries shaped by processes acting on geological and evolutionary timescales. Although growing evidence suggests that historical human impact has been key in how biodiversity is currently assembled, its role as a driver of the geographical organisation of biodiversity remains unclear. Using non-volant terrestrial
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Identifying community assembling zones and connectivity pathways in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic Ocean Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Everton Giachini Tosetto, Christophe Lett, Ariane Koch-Larrouy, Alex Costa da Silva, Sigrid Neumann-Leitão, Miodeli Nogueira Junior, Nicolas Barrier, Alina Nathanael Dossa, Michel Tchilibou, Perrine Bauchot, Guillaume Morvan, Arnaud Bertrand
Dispersal is more intense in the ocean than on land because most marine taxa present planktonic life stages that are transported by currents even without specific morphological traits. Thus, species dispersal shapes the distribution of biodiversity along seascapes and drives the composition of biodiversity assemblages. To identify marine assembling zones which characterise spatial areas particularly
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A flexible framework to assess patterns and drivers of beta diversity across spatial scales Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Siwen He, Chunyan Qin, and Janne Soininen
The patterns and underlying ecological (e.g. environmental filtering) and historical (e.g. priority effects) drivers of beta diversity are scale-dependent, but generally difficult to distinguish and rarely explored with a sufficiently broad range of spatial scales. We propose a general scale-explicit framework to assess and contrast the patterns and drivers of beta diversity across hierarchical spatial
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Fine-scale interplay between decline and growth determines the spatial recovery of coral communities within a reef Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Julie Vercelloni, Chris Roelfsema, Eva M. Kovacs, Manuel González-Rivero, Matthew T. Moores, Murray Logan, Kerrie Mengersen
As coral reefs endure increasing levels of disturbance, understanding recovery patterns of reef-building hard corals is paramount to assessing the sustainability of these ecosystems. At local scales, coral recovery slows down; however, it's unclear how this trend propagates across spatial scales due to the inherent complexity of coral dynamics. In this paper, we aimed to learn about fine scale heterogeneity