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The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Daniel J. Becker; Barbara A. Han
Prediction of novel reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens would be improved by the identification of interspecific drivers of host competence (i.e., the ability to transmit pathogens to new hosts or vectors). Tick‐borne pathogens can provide a useful model system, because larvae become infected only when feeding on a competent host during their first blood meal. For tick‐borne diseases, competence has been
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Tree canopy accession strategy changes along the latitudinal gradient of temperate Northeast Asia Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Pavel Janda; Olga N. Ukhvatkina; Anna S. Vozmishcheva; Alexander M. Omelko; Jiří Doležal; Pavel V. Krestov; Alexander A. Zhmerenetsky; Jong‐Suk Song; Jan Altman
Understanding how natural forest disturbances control tree regeneration is key to predicting the consequences of globally accelerating forest diebacks on carbon stocks and forest biodiversity. Tropical cyclones (TCs) are important drivers of forest dynamics in Eastern Asia, and it is predicted that their importance will increase. However, little is known about the impact of TCs on forest regeneration
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Climate‐induced variation in the demography of 14 tree species is not sufficient to explain their distribution in eastern North America Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Amaël Le Squin; Isabelle Boulangeat; Dominique Gravel
Dynamic range models are proposed to investigate species distributions and to project range shifts under climate change. They are based upon the Hutchinsonian niche theory, specifying that the occurrence of a species in an environmental space should be limited to positions where the intrinsic growth rate is positive. Evaluating population growth rate is, however, difficult for physiologically structured
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Niche dynamics in amphitropical desert disjunct plants: Seeking for ecological and species‐specific influences Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 R. Emiliano Quiroga; Andrea C. Premoli; Roberto J. Fernández
Numerous studies have assessed whether species niches are conserved in geographically separated regions. However, most of them were performed on invasive species, with the limitation that such species have likely not yet reached their potential distribution in the invaded region. Here we test the hypothesis of niche conservatism in the entire group of 25 amphitropical desert disjunct plant species
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Rainfall continentality, via the winter Gams angle, provides a new dimension to biogeographical distributions in the western United States Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Richard Michalet; Philippe Choler; Ragan M. Callaway; Thomas G. Whitham
Drought stress has focused on water availability during the growing season, thus primarily on summer. However, variation in rainfall continentality can produce striking vegetation differences. We aim to disentangle summer water balance from winter rainfall continentality, to better understand how climate regulates the distributions of woody plants in the western USA.
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Multiple‐scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Ning Chen; Yangjian Zhang; Juntao Zhu; Nan Cong; Guang Zhao; Jiaxing Zu; Zhipeng Wang; Ke Huang; Li Wang; Yaojie Liu; Zhoutao Zheng; Ze Tang; Yixuan Zhu; Tao Zhang; Mingjie Xu; Yangping Di; Yao Chen
Ecosystem carbon use efficiency (CUEe) is a core parameter of ecosystem process models, but its relationships with climate are still uncertain, especially for ecosystems with harsh environments. Large inconsistencies in climate impacts on the CUEe have been reported among various spatial scales. The goal of this study was to examine whether warming promotes or restricts the CUEe and whether the CUEe
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Global patterns and predictors of trophic position, body size and jaw size in fishes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 R. Keller Kopf; Jian D. L. Yen; Dale G. Nimmo; Sébastien Brosse; Sébastien Villéger
The aim of this study was test whether maximum body mass and jaw length are reliable predictors of trophic position (TP) in fishes, and to compare linear and nonlinear machine‐learning (ML) models incorporating biogeography, habitat and other morphological traits.
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Inter‐ and intraspecific selection in alien plants: How population growth, functional traits and climate responses change with residence time Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Marco R. Brendel; Frank M. Schurr; Christine S. Sheppard
When alien species are introduced to new ranges, climate or trait mismatches may initially constrain their population growth. However, inter‐ and intraspecific selection in the new environment should cause population growth rates to increase with residence time. Using a species‐for‐time approach, we test whether with increasing residence time (a) negative effects of climatic mismatches between the
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The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Daniel Pincheira‐Donoso; Lilly P. Harvey; Florencia Grattarola; Manuel Jara; Sheena C. Cotter; Tom Tregenza; Dave J. Hodgson
Body size explains most of the variation in fitness within animal populations and is therefore under constant selection from ecological and reproductive pressures, which often promote its evolution in sex‐specific directions, leading to sexual size dimorphism (SSD). Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the vast diversity of SSD across species. These hypotheses emphasize: (a) the mate competition
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Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-12 Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou; Adeline Fayolle; Tommaso Jucker; Oliver L. Phillips; Stephanie Bohlman; Lindsay F. Banin; Simon L. Lewis; Kofi Affum‐Baffoe; Luciana F. Alves; Cécile Antin; Eric Arets; Luzmila Arroyo; Timothy R. Baker; Nicolas Barbier; Hans Beeckman; Uta Berger; Yannick Enock Bocko; Frans Bongers; Sam Bowers; Thom Brade; Eduardo S. Brondizio; Arthur Chantrain; Jerome Chave; Halidou Compaore;
Tree crowns determine light interception, carbon and water exchange. Thus, understanding the factors causing tree crown allometry to vary at the tree and stand level matters greatly for the development of future vegetation modelling and for the calibration of remote sensing products. Nevertheless, we know little about large‐scale variation and determinants in tropical tree crown allometry. In this
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Temporal biodiversity change following disturbance varies along an environmental gradient Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Elina Kaarlejärvi; Maija Salemaa; Tiina Tonteri; Päivi Merilä; Anna‐Liisa Laine
The diversity and composition of natural communities are rapidly changing due to anthropogenic disturbances. Magnitude of this compositional reorganization varies across the globe, but reasons behind the variation remain largely unknown. Disturbances induce temporal turnover by stimulating species colonizations, causing local extinctions, altering dominance structure, or all of these. We test which
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Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Yongshuo H. Fu; Xuancheng Zhou; Xinxi Li; Yaru Zhang; Xiaojun Geng; Fanghua Hao; Xuan Zhang; Heikki Hanninen; Yahui Guo; Hans J. De Boeck
Vegetation phenology is highly sensitive to climate change. The timing of spring phenology in temperate grasslands is regulated primarily by temperature and precipitation. The aim of this study was to determine whether the primary factor regulating vegetation phenology has changed under ongoing climate change and the underlying mechanisms.
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Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Shuai Ouyang; Wenhua Xiang; Mengmeng Gou; Liang Chen; Pifeng Lei; Wenfa Xiao; Xiangwen Deng; Lixiong Zeng; Jiangrong Li; Tao Zhang; Changhui Peng; David I. Forrester
Tree species diversity can increase the stability of ecosystem productivity by increasing mean productivity and/or reducing the standard deviation in productivity. However, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions influence plant diversity and might strongly influence the relationships between diversity and stability in natural forest communities. The relative importance of these
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Global macroecology of nitrogen‐fixing plants Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Riin Tamme; Meelis Pärtel; Urmas Kõljalg; Lauri Laanisto; Jaan Liira; Ülo Mander; Mari Moora; Ülo Niinemets; Maarja Öpik; Ivika Ostonen; Leho Tedersoo; Martin Zobel
Plants that host root‐symbiotic nitrogen‐fixing bacteria have an important role in driving terrestrial ecosystem processes, but N‐fixing ability is unequally distributed among plant taxa and ecosystems. Here we explore the large‐scale distribution of N‐fixing plant species worldwide.
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Caught in a bottleneck: Habitat loss for woolly mammoths in central North America and the ice‐free corridor during the last deglaciation Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Yue Wang; Chris Widga; Russell W. Graham; Jenny L. McGuire; Warren Porter; David Wårlind; John W. Williams
Identifying how climate change, habitat loss, and corridors interact to influence species survival or extinction is critical to understanding macro‐scale biodiversity dynamics under changing environments. In North America, the ice‐free corridor was the only major pathway for northward migration by megafaunal species during the last deglaciation. However, the timing and interplay among the late Quaternary
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Climate‐driven conifer mortality in Siberia Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Viacheslav I. Kharuk; Sergei T. Im; Il’ya A. Petrov; Maria L. Dvinskaya; Alexandr S. Shushpanov; Alexei S. Golyukov
An increase in conifer mortality has been observed widely across the boreal forest biome. We investigate the causes of this mortality, in addition to the geospatial and temporal dynamics of mortality, in Siberian pine and fir stands.
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Long‐term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Matthew Adesanya Adeleye; Michela Mariani; Simon Connor; Simon Graeme Haberle; Annika Herbert; Felicitas Hopf; Janelle Stevenson
Knowledge of the drivers of ecosystem changes in the past is key to understanding present ecosystem responses to changes in climate, fire regimes and anthropogenic impacts. Northern Hemisphere‐focussed studies suggest that climate and human activities drove turnover during the Holocene in temperate ecosystems. Various drivers have been invoked to explain changes in Southern Hemisphere temperate vegetation
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Contrasting latitudinal patterns in diversity and stability in a high‐latitude species‐rich moth community Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-20
In Laura H. Antão et al. (2020) the authors would like to notify the readers that in the original published version of the article, an error was introduced to the start of the second sentence in section 2.2 resulting in the log number being included. The correct text is as follows: We used ln‐transformed responses to account for pronounced differences in species richness and number of individuals along
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Human stabilization of river flows is linked with fish invasions across the USA Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Lise Comte; Theodore Grantham; Albert Ruhi
River flow regimes are changing globally as a consequence of human use of freshwater resources. Additionally, rivers are among the most invaded ecosystems. Invasion biology predicts that the establishment and spread of non‐native species might be favoured both by new environmental regimes (niche opportunities) and by human‐mediated dispersal (propagule pressure). Here, we expand on past research by
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Climate and land‐use change severity alter trait‐based responses to habitat conversion Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-17 Alexander H. Murray; A. Justin Nowakowski; Luke O. Frishkoff
A major goal in modern ecology is understanding the source of variation in species responses to anthropogenic change. Trait‐based approaches show promise, but traits found to be predictive in one study often fail in others. We seek to understand whether variation in traits’ explanatory power comes about due to interaction effects—between multiple traits and between traits and the environment. We assess
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Rensch’s rule—Definitions and statistics Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-17 Shai Meiri; Tao Liang
Sexual size dimorphism is thought to vary in a predictable manner with overall body size, a pattern named “Rensch's rule”. The rule is thought to suggest different predictions for taxa with female‐ and male‐biased dimorphism. This leaves taxa where both types of dimorphism are common in limbo. Rensch's rule is usually estimated using the reduced major axis (RMA) slope of a regression of male size on
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Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Erhan Huang; Yuxin Chen; Miao Fang; Yi Zheng; Shixiao Yu
How environmental factors drive plant distribution across the globe is one of the most fundamental questions in ecology. Nevertheless, the relative importance of different environmental factors in driving plant distributions across spatial scales and among plant groups is not clear. This study aims to disentangle how plant–environment relationships vary with latitude and among plant taxa.
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Evolutionary time best explains the latitudinal diversity gradient of living freshwater fish diversity Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Elizabeth Christina Miller; Cristian Román‐Palacios
The evolutionary causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient are debated. Hypotheses have ultimately invoked either faster rates of diversification in the tropics or more time for diversification owing to the tropical origins of higher taxa. Here, we perform the first test of the diversification rate and time hypotheses in freshwater ray‐finned fishes, a group comprising nearly a quarter of all living
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Biogeography and phenology of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in southern European seas Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Valentina Leoni; Delphine Bonnet; Eduardo Ramírez‐Romero; Juan Carlos Molinero
Global anthropogenic changes have altered biogeography and phenology of marine populations, thereby promoting a spatial reconfiguration in the functioning of marine ecosystems. Among these changes, massive proliferations of jellyfish in temperate latitudes warn of potential alterations in biogeochemical fluxes, ecosystems’ structure and assets, and the services they provide to human welfare. Understanding
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Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Alexander E. White; Kushal K. Dey; Matthew Stephens; Trevor D. Price
Biogeographical regions (realms) reflect patterns of co‐distributed species (biotas) across space. Their boundaries are set by dispersal barriers and difficulties of establishment in new locations. We extend new methods to assess these two contributions by quantifying the degree to which realms intergrade across geographical space and the contributions of individual species to the delineation of those
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The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Raquel Benavides; Bárbara Carvalho; Cristina C. Bastias; David López‐Quiroga; Antonio Mas; Stephen Cavers; Alan Gray; Audrey Albet; Ricardo Alía; Olivier Ambrosio; Filippos Aravanopoulos; Francisco Auñón; Camilla Avanzi; Evangelia V. Avramidou; Francesca Bagnoli; Eduardo Ballesteros; Evangelos Barbas; Catherine Bastien; Frédéric Bernier; Henry Bignalet; Damien Bouic; William Brunetto; Jurata Buchovska;
Trait variation within species can reveal plastic and/or genetic responses to environmental gradients, and may indicate where local adaptation has occurred. Here, we present a dataset of rangewide variation in leaf traits from seven of the most ecologically and economically important tree species in Europe. Sample collection and trait assessment are embedded in the GenTree project (EU‐Horizon 2020)
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Using centroids of spatial units in ecological niche modelling: Effects on model performance in the context of environmental data grain size Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Yanchao Cheng; Nils Benjamin Tjaden; Anja Jaeschke; Stephanie Margarete Thomas; Carl Beierkuhnlein
Ecological niche models (ENMs) typically require point locations of species’ occurrence as input data. Where exact locations are not available, geographical centroids of the respective administrational spatial units (ASUs) are often used as a substitute. We investigated how the use of ASU centroids in ENMs affects model performance, what role the size of ASUs plays, and what effects different grain
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Search for top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Elena Valdés‐Correcher; Xoaquín Moreira; Laurent Augusto; Luc Barbaro; Christophe Bouget; Olivier Bouriaud; Manuela Branco; Giada Centenaro; György Csóka; Thomas Damestoy; Jovan Dobrosavljević; Mihai‐Leonard Duduman; Anne‐Maïmiti Dulaurent; Csaba B. Eötvös; Maria Faticov; Marco Ferrante; Ágnes Fürjes‐Mikó; Andrea Galmán; Martin M. Gossner; Arndt Hampe; Deborah Harvey; Andrew Gordon Howe; Yasmine Kadiri;
The strength of species interactions is traditionally expected to increase toward the Equator. However, recent studies have reported opposite or inconsistent latitudinal trends in the bottom‐up (plant quality) and top‐down (natural enemies) forces driving herbivory. In addition, these forces have rarely been studied together thus limiting previous attempts to understand the effect of large‐scale climatic
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Growth of marine ectotherms is regionally constrained and asymmetric with latitude Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Adam J. Reed; Jasmin A. Godbold; Laura J. Grange; Martin Solan
Growth rates of organisms are routinely used to summarize physiological performance, but the consequences of local evolutionary history and ecology are largely missed by analyses on wide biogeographical scales. This broad approach has been commonly applied to other physiological parameters across terrestrial and aquatic environments. Here, we examine growth rates of marine bivalves across all biogeographical
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Effects of evolutionary time, speciation rates and local abiotic conditions on the origin and maintenance of amphibian montane diversity Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Adrián García‐Rodríguez; Julián A. Velasco; Fabricio Villalobos; Gabriela Parra‐Olea
High levels of species richness in mountains are associated with their hypothetical roles as cradles and/or museums of diversity, but the generality of these roles remains unknown. To fill this gap, we tested these two hypotheses at a global scale and assessed the direct and indirect effects of abiotic regional features on the variation of montane amphibian richness world‐wide.
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Changes in landscape‐scale tree biodiversity in the north‐eastern USA since European settlement Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-27 Mark Vellend; Jonathan R. Thompson; Victor Danneyrolles; François Rousseu
Despite global biodiversity losses, trends at local and regional scales are context dependent. Recent studies have been criticized for lacking baselines preceding human impacts, and few such studies have addressed the landscape scale. Our aim was to quantify temporal trends in landscape‐scale tree diversity during an unambiguous period of massively increased anthropogenic disturbance and to test the
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Shared functional traits explain synchronous changes in long‐term count trends of migratory raptors Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-12-26 Patricia Kaye T. Dumandan; Keith L. Bildstein; Laurie J. Goodrich; Andrii Zaiats; T. Trevor Caughlin; Todd E. Katzner
Assessing long‐term shifts in faunal assemblages is important to understand the consequences of ongoing global environmental change. One approach to assess drivers of assemblage changes is to identify the traits associated with synchronous shifts in count trends among species. Our research identified traits influencing trends in 73 years of count data on migrating raptors recorded in the north‐eastern
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The multidimensionality of soil macroecology Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Nico Eisenhauer; François Buscot; Anna Heintz‐Buschart; Stephanie D. Jurburg; Kirsten Küsel; Johannes Sikorski; Hans‐Jörg Vogel; Carlos A. Guerra
The recent past has seen a tremendous surge in soil macroecological studies and new insights into the global drivers of one‐quarter of the biodiversity of the Earth. Building on these important developments, a recent paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography outlined promising methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology. Among other recommendations, White and colleagues introduced the concept
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Primary production and habitat stability organize marine communities Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Alli N. Cramer; Stephen L. Katz
The emergence of pattern in the natural world can carry important messages about underlying processes. For example, collections of broadly similar terrestrial ecosystems have historically been categorized as biomes – groupings of systems that sort along energetic and structural process axes. In marine systems however, a similar classification of biomes has not emerged. The aim here is to develop an
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RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Lise Comte; Juan Carvajal‐Quintero; Pablo A. Tedesco; Xingli Giam; Ulrich Brose; Tibor Erős; Ana F. Filipe; Marie‐Josée Fortin; Katie Irving; Claire Jacquet; Stefano Larsen; Sapna Sharma; Albert Ruhi; Fernando G. Becker; Lilian Casatti; Giuseppe Castaldelli; Renato B. Dala‐Corte; Stephen R. Davenport; Nathan R. Franssen; Emili García‐Berthou; Anna Gavioli; Keith B. Gido; Luz Jimenez‐Segura; Rafael
We compiled a global database of long‐term riverine fish surveys from 46 regional and national monitoring programmes and from individual academic research efforts, with which numerous basic and applied questions in ecology and global change research can be explored. Such spatially and temporally extensive datasets have been lacking for freshwater systems in comparison to terrestrial ones.
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Handling missing values in trait data Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-18 Thomas F. Johnson; Nick J. B. Isaac; Agustin Paviolo; Manuela González‐Suárez
Trait data are widely used in ecological and evolutionary phylogenetic comparative studies, but often values are not available for all species of interest. Traditionally, researchers have excluded species without data from analyses, but estimation of missing values using imputation has been proposed as a better approach. However, imputation methods have largely been designed for randomly missing data
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Current distributions and future climate‐driven changes in diatoms, insects and fish in U.S. streams Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-18 Katrina L. Pound; Chad A. Larson; Sophia I. Passy
Biodiversity on Earth is threatened by climate change. Despite the vulnerability of freshwater habitats to human impacts, most climate change projections have focused on terrestrial systems. Here, we examined how the current distributions and biodiversity of stream taxa might change under mitigated, stabilizing and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Peripheral eco‐morphology predicts restricted lineage diversification and endemism among corvoid passerine birds Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-08 Jonathan D. Kennedy; Petter Z. Marki; Jon Fjeldså; Carsten Rahbek
Across a variety of taxonomic scales, species diversity is unevenly distributed among its constituent units, and clades with few species are more common than expected assuming homogeneous rates of speciation and extinction among lineages. In order to explain the prevalence of species‐poor families among a global and species‐rich radiation of passerine birds, we test whether these groups share common
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The macroecology of fish migration Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Dominique Alò; Shaw Nozaki Lacy; Andrea Castillo; Horacio A. Samaniego; Pablo A. Marquet
We still lack a consensus on the main variables driving changes in migratory strategies. Different hypotheses have been proposed: productivity, energy, environmental heterogeneity, and genetic predisposition. This work takes an integrative view and analyses migrations from a macroecological perspective estimating the extent to which different environmental variables and historic factors influence migratory
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Climate change drives spatial mismatch and threatens the biotic interactions of the Brazil nut Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Lilian P. Sales; Lucirene Rodrigues; Rômulo Masiero
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Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Jan Plue; Hans Van Calster; Inger Auestad; Sofía Basto; Renée M. Bekker; Hans Henrik Bruun; Richard Chevalier; Guillaume Decocq; Ulf Grandin; Martin Hermy; Hans Jacquemyn; Anna Jakobsson; Małgorzata Jankowska‐Błaszczuk; Rein Kalamees; Marcus A. Koch; Rob H. Marrs; Bryndís Marteinsdóttir; Per Milberg; Inger E. Måren; Robin J. Pakeman; Gareth K. Phoenix; Ken Thompson; Vigdis Vandvik; Markus Wagner; Alistair
Climate and land use are key determinants of biodiversity, with past and ongoing changes posing serious threats to global ecosystems. Unlike most other organism groups, plant species can possess dormant life‐history stages such as soil seed banks, which may help plant communities to resist or at least postpone the detrimental impact of global changes. This study investigates the potential for soil
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A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Elisabeth M. A. Strain; Peter D. Steinberg; Maria Vozzo; Emma L. Johnston; Marco Abbiati; Moises A. Aguilera; Laura Airoldi; J. David Aguirre; Gail Ashton; Maritina Bernardi; Paul Brooks; Benny K. K. Chan; Chee B. Cheah; Su Yin Chee; Ricardo Coutinho; Tasman Crowe; Adam Davey; Louise B. Firth; Clarissa Fraser; Mick E. Hanley; Stephen J. Hawkins; Kathleen E. Knick; Edward T. C. Lau; Kenneth M. Y. Leung;
Topographic complexity is widely accepted as a key driver of biodiversity, but at the patch‐scale, complexity–biodiversity relationships may vary spatially and temporally according to the environmental stressors complexity mitigates, and the species richness and identity of potential colonists. Using a manipulative experiment, we assessed spatial variation in patch‐scale effects of complexity on intertidal
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Body size distributions of anurans are explained by diversification rates and the environment Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Talita Ferreira Amado; Pablo Ariel Martinez; Daniel Pincheira‐Donoso; Miguel Ángel Olalla‐Tárraga
Body size frequency distributions are often skewed to the right, with a greater frequency of small‐sized species. Right skewness can appear when speciation is biased towards small species and extinction towards large ones. In contrast, limits imposed by environmental constraints will select taxa to co‐occur in assemblages and can modify size distributions to the left or to the right. We analysed whether
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Multiscale drivers of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in small European woodlands Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-07 Ronan Marrec; Vincent Le Roux; Ludmilla Martin; Jonathan Lenoir; Jörg Brunet; Sara A. O. Cousins; Pallieter De Smedt; Marc Deconchat; Martin Diekmann; Steffen Ehrmann; Emilie Gallet‐Moron; Brice Giffard; Jaan Liira; Jessica Lindgren; Alicia Valdes; Kris Verheyen; Monika Wulf; Guillaume Decocq
The spatio‐temporal connectivity of forest patches in lowland agricultural landscapes and their age matter to explain current biodiversity patterns across regional as well as biogeographical extents, to the point that their effect exceeds the one of macroclimate for plant diversity in the understorey of temperate forests. Whether this remains true for other taxonomic groups is still largely unknown
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Grow wider canopies or thicker stems: Variable response of woody plants to increasing dryness Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-13 Jingyi Ding; Samantha K. Travers; David J. Eldridge
Woody plants vary greatly from tall trees to branching shrubs with increasing dryness. Variation in plant allometry is driven by both biotic and abiotic factors, reflecting different plant adaptation strategies in different environments. Here, we explore how aboveground allometry of different woody plants responds to increasing dryness along an extensive aridity gradient.
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Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Paulo Mateus Martins; Robert Poulin; Thiago Gonçalves‐Souza
Climate and host richness are essential drivers of global gradients in parasite diversity, and the few existing studies on parasites have mostly investigated their effects separately. The advantages of combining these factors into a single analytical framework include unravelling the relative roles of abiotic and biotic drivers of parasite diversity. We compiled a dataset of helminths of amphibians
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Small scale environmental variation modulates plant defence syndromes of understorey plants in deciduous forests of Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Pieter Sanczuk; Sanne Govaert; Camille Meeussen; Karen De Pauw; Thomas Vanneste; Leen Depauw; Xoaquín Moreira; Jonas Schoelynck; Marthe De Boevre; Sarah De Saeger; Kurt Bollmann; Jörg Brunet; Sara A. O. Cousins; Jan Plue; Martin Diekmann; Bente J. Graae; Per‐Ola Hedwall; Giovanni Iacopetti; Jonathan Lenoir; Anna Orczewska; Quentin Ponette; Federico Selvi; Fabien Spicher; Pieter Vermeir; Kim Calders;
Variation in plant defence traits has been frequently assessed along large‐scale macroclimatic clines. In contrast, local‐scale changes in the environment have recently been proposed to also modulate plant defence traits. Yet, the relative importance of drivers at both scales has never been tested. We aimed to quantify the relative importance of environmental drivers inherent to large and small spatial
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Latitudinal variation in plant defence against herbivory in a marine foundation species does not follow a linear pattern: The importance of resource availability Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Gema Hernán; María J. Ortega; Jeremy Henderson; Josep Alós; Katharyn Boyer; Stephanie Cimon; Vincent Combes; Mathieu Cusson; Clara M. Hereu; Margot Hessing‐Lewis; Kevin Hovel; Pablo Jorgensen; Stephanie Kiriakopolos; Nicole Kollars; Mary I. O´Connor; Jeanine Olsen; Pamela L. Reynolds; Jennifer Ruesink; Erin Voigt; Fiona Tomas
Studies on latitudinal patterns in plant defence have traditionally overlooked the potential effect that resource availability may have in shaping plant defence. Likewise, latitudinal patterns of tolerance traits have rarely been studied, yet they can be a critical component of plant defence. Therefore, the aim of our study was to examine latitudinal variation in the production of tolerance and resistance
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Global patterns of rainfall partitioning by invasive woody plants Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Juan I. Whitworth‐Hulse; Patricio N. Magliano; Sebastián R. Zeballos; Sebastián Aguiar; Germán Baldi
Invasive species have the potential to alter hydrological processes by changing the local water balance. However, general patterns of how rainfall is partitioned into interception, throughfall and stemflow for invasive species worldwide have been seldom explored. We (a) describe the percentage of interception, throughfall and stemflow for invasive woody plant species; (b) analyse the influence of morphological
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Legacy of archipelago history in modern island biodiversity – An agent‐based simulation model Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Madli Jõks; Holger Kreft; Patrick Weigelt; Meelis Pärtel
Geological processes of island growth and erosion, in addition to eustatic sea‐level fluctuations, alter key physical properties of oceanic islands, such as area, elevation and isolation over time. These dynamics operate over similar time‐scales to the biogeographical processes of colonization, speciation and extinction, and thus should strongly affect island biodiversity patterns as we observe them
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Ectothermy and the macroecology of home range scaling in snakes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Brian D. Todd; A. Justin Nowakowski
A central question in ecology has been that of why animal home ranges scale more steeply with body size than do metabolic rates. Yet, the generality of this notion has scarcely been tested in non‐model species like ectotherms, which have lower metabolic requirements than endotherms and which may, therefore, have different home range area requirements. Our aim was to examine how home range area scales
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A global analysis of enemy release and its variation with latitude Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Meng Xu; Xidong Mu; Shuang Zhang; Jaimie T. A. Dick; Bingtao Zhu; Dangen Gu; Yexin Yang; Du Luo; Yinchang Hu
The enemy release hypothesis (ERH) posits that exotic species suffer less enemy damage than natives, which promotes their successful invasion. However, the generality of less damage for exotics remains widely debated. A recent view proposes that enemy release (ER) could change systematically with latitude, potentially helping to explain these inconsistencies. Here, we test whether exotic plant species
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Global responses of fine root biomass and traits to plant species mixtures in terrestrial ecosystems Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Sai Peng; Han Y. H. Chen
Fine root traits underpin terrestrial ecosystem functioning. Despite ongoing plant diversity loss due to anthropogenic activities, our understanding of the effects of plant diversity on fine root traits remains elusive. We addressed: (a) Do fine roots modify their traits in response to species mixtures? (b) Do these responses change with the species richness in mixtures, stand age, and soil depth?
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Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-13 Xiaoming Lu; Eryuan Liang; Yafeng Wang; Flurin Babst; J. Julio Camarero
To better understand how climate change drives altitudinal treeline dynamics at large spatial scales.
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Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Carlos P. Carmona; Meelis Pärtel
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 the site‐specific species pool forms the site’s dark diversity, which is unobservable and can only be estimated. Most existing methods to designate dark diversity act in a binary fashion. Here, we argue that the species pool
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Deconstructing the abundance–suitability relationship in species distribution modelling Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Alberto Jiménez‐Valverde; Pedro Aragón; Jorge M. Lobo
Local suitability estimated with species distribution models (SDMs) could indicate the maximum abundance attainable by species. Often the abundance–suitability relationship is wedge‐shaped because species do not reach their maximum potential in every suitable location. We explore how SDM performance, the amount of information lost when converting continuous abundance into presence–absence data and
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Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.446) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Richard Cornford; Stefanie Deinet; Adriana De Palma; Samantha L. L. Hill; Louise McRae; Benjamin Pettit; Valentina Marconi; Andy Purvis; Robin Freeman
Understanding broad‐scale ecological patterns and processes is necessary if we are to mitigate the consequences of anthropogenically driven biodiversity degradation. However, such analyses require large datasets and current data collation methods can be slow, involving extensive human input. Given rapid and ever‐increasing rates of scientific publication, manually identifying data sources among hundreds
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