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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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
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Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Pablo Escribano-Álvarez, Pablo A. Martinez, Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Luis R. Pertierra, Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga
Temperature is a primary driver to define the ecophysiological activity and performance of ectotherms. Thus, thermal tolerance limits have a profound effect in determining geographic ranges. In regions with extreme cold temperatures, lower thermal limits of species are a key physiological trait for survival. Moreover, thermal niche breadth also plays an important role in allowing organisms to withstand
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Scale dependency of community assembly differs between coastal marine bacteria and fungi Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Yuan Xu, Xinyi Chen, Caio Graco-Roza, Janne Soininen
It is often assumed that community assembly processes, i.e. deterministic or stochastic factors determining the structure of communities, vary with spatial scale. However, evidence showing such scale-dependency is challenging to gather, especially in microbial communities.
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Spatial replication can best advance our understanding of population responses to climate Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Aldo Compagnoni, Sanne Evers, Tiffany Knight
Understanding the responses of plant populations dynamics to climatic variability is frustrated by the need for long-term datasets. Here, we advocate for new studies that estimate the effects of climate by sampling replicate populations in locations with similar climate. We first use data analysis on spatial locations in the conterminous USA to assess how far apart spatial replicates should be from
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Globally coordinated acoustic aquatic animal tracking reveals unexpected, ecologically important movements across oceans, lakes and rivers Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Robert J. Lennox, Frederick G. Whoriskey, Pieterjan Verhelst, Christopher S. Vandergoot, Marc Soria, Jan Reubens, Erin L. Rechisky, Michael Power, Taryn Murray, Ingeborg Mulder, James L. Markham, Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri, Steven T. Lindley, Nathan A. Knott, Steven T. Kessel, Sara Iverson, Charlie Huveneers, Maike Heidemeyer, Robert Harcourt, Lucas P. Griffin, Claudia Friess, Alexander Filous, Lachlan
Acoustic telemetry is a popular approach used to track many different aquatic animal taxa in marine and freshwater systems. However, information derived from focal studies is typically resource- and geography-limited by the extent and placement of acoustic receivers. Even so, animals tagged and tracked in one region or study may be detected unexpectedly at distant locations by other researchers using
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Macroecological patterns in European butterflies unveil strong interrelations between larval diet breadth, latitudinal range size and voltinism Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Carlo L. Seifert, Konrad Fiedler
Diet breadth is one of the fundamental species traits of an herbivorous insect as it strongly determines its ecological niche and, at the same time, its ability to cope with changing environmental conditions. To what extent this trait is associated with other characteristics that may influence a species' ability to respond to environmental changes, however, is yet poorly understood. Using European
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Estimating relative species abundance using fossil data identified to different taxonomic levels Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Trond Reitan, Emanuela Di Martino, Lee Hsiang Liow
Site-occupancy modelling is widely used in ecology for understanding species distribution, habitat-use and community changes but its application is still limited in paleoecology, where incomplete detection is also routine. Here, we make extensive expansions to an earlier multispecies occupancy model used to estimate the dynamics of relative species abundance in fossil communities. These expansions
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Contrasting impacts of short- and long-term large herbivore exclusion on understory net CO2 exchange in a boreal forest Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Noora Kantola, Maria Väisänen, Alan Joshua Leffler, Jeffrey M. Welker
Across boreal forests, trees are the main living biomass carbon (C) stock, but the understory vegetation can contribute significantly to the C cycling and net forest carbon dioxide (CO2) balance. The patchy understory vegetation, which consists of sunlit (i.e. lichen-like) and shaded habitats (i.e. dwarf shrub-like), is often altered by ungulate grazers. Grazers may influence understory CO2 exchange
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Aggregation of symbionts on hosts depends on interaction type and host traits Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 David R. Clark, Kyle A. Young, Justin Kitzes, Pippa J. Moore, Ally J. Evans, Jessica F. Stephenson
Symbionts tend to be aggregated on their hosts, such that few hosts harbor the majority of symbionts. This ubiquitous pattern can result from stochastic processes, but aggregation patterns may also depend on the type of host–symbiont interaction, along with traits that affect host exposure and susceptibility to symbionts. Untangling how aggregation patterns both within and among populations depend
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Climate change linked to vampire bat expansion and rabies virus spillover Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Paige Van de Vuurst, Huijie Qiao, Diego Soler-Tovar, Luis E. Escobar
Bat-borne pathogens are a threat to global health and in recent history have had major impacts on human morbidity and mortality. Examples include diseases such as rabies, Nipah virus encephalitis, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Climate change may exacerbate the emergence of bat-borne pathogens by affecting the ecology of bats in tropical ecosystems. Here, we report the impacts of climate
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New insight into drivers of mammalian litter size from individual-level traits Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Amanda K. Weller, Olivia S. Chapman, Sarah L. Gora, Robert P. Guralnick, Bryan S. McLean
The digitization and open availability of life history traits measured directly from individuals provide a key means of linking organismal function to environmental and ecological contexts at fine resolution. These linkages play a critical role in understanding trait-mediated response to global change, with particular need to resolve them for taxa that are secretive and hard to monitor, like most mammals
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Multi-colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean-basin scale Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Françoise Amélineau, Arnaud Tarroux, Simon Lacombe, Vegard S. Bråthen, Sebastien Descamps, Morten Ekker, Per Fauchald, Malin K. Johansen, Børge Moe, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Maria I. Bogdanova, Ingar S. Bringsvor, Olivier Chastel, Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard, Francis Daunt, Nina Dehnhard, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Aleksey Ezhov, Maria Gavrilo, Erpur S. Hansen, Mike P. Harris, Hálfdán H. Helgason, Magdalene
Migration is a common trait among many animals allowing the exploitation of spatiotemporally variable resources. It often implies high energetic costs to cover large distances, for example between breeding and wintering grounds. For flying or swimming animals, the adequate use of winds and currents can help reduce the associated energetic costs. Migratory seabirds are good models because they dwell
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The importance of network spatial structure as a driver of eco-evolutionary dynamics Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Amaïa Lamarins, Etienne Prévost, Stephanie M. Carlson, Mathieu Buoro
Investigating eco-evolutionary responses of populations to environmental changes requires a solid understanding of the spatial context in which they evolve. While the interplay between local adaptation and dispersal in guiding evolutionary outcomes has been studied extensively, it is often in a context of divergent selection and simplified spatial structure. Alternatively, we used a spatially-explicit
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Anthropogenic habitat modification causes nonlinear multiscale bird diversity declines Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Corey T. Callaghan, Jonathan M. Chase, Daniel J. McGlinn
Anthropogenic habitat modification is a leading contributor to biodiversity change, but it is unclear what factors, including scale, influence the magnitude of change. Changes in species richness and its scaling relationship across an anthropogenic gradient can be influenced by changes in the total number of individuals in each sample, the species abundance distribution, and/or the spatial arrangement
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Fish body size influenced by multiple drivers Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Dominique Alò, Vanessa Pizarro, Evelyn Habit
There is evidence that organisms have become smaller during the past periods of global warming. Global change has substantial effects on biodiversity, with body size reduction being the third most common response to global warming. Body size allometry in ectotherms needs to be explored further; the objectives of this study were to better understand the mechanisms regulating body size in fish by testing:
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Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Harald Letsch, Michael Balke, Dominik Kusy, Duane D. McKenna, Raden Pramesa Narakusumo, Katayo Sagata, Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint, Lloyd T. White, Alexander Riedel
The geologically-complex Indo–Australian–Melanesian archipelago (IAMA) hosts extraordinarily high levels of species richness and endemism and has long served as a natural laboratory for studying biogeography and evolution. Nonetheless, its geological history and the provenance and evolution of its biodiversity remain poorly understood. Here, we provide a geological scenario for the IAMA informed by
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Functional biogeography of coastal marine invertebrates along the south-eastern Pacific coast reveals latitudinally divergent drivers of taxonomic versus functional diversity Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 David L. Herrera, Sergio A. Navarrete, Fabio A. Labra, Simon P. Castillo, Luis-Felipe Opazo Mella
Characterizing the spatial structure of taxonomic and functional diversity (FD) of marine organisms across regional and latitudinal scales is essential for improving our understanding of the processes driving species richness and those that may constrain or enhance the set of species traits that define the functional structure of communities. Here, we present the functional diversity of coastal invertebrate
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Testing the links between bird diversity, alien species and disturbance within a human-modified landscape Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Fabio Marcolin, Pedro Segurado, Dan Chamberlain, Luís Reino
Introduced alien species are associated with lower taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of native communities and negative impacts on ecosystem functioning. This is particularly evident in habitats where human disturbance may favour alien species, posing an additional stressor on native communities. Following the community resistance hypothesis (higher diversity promotes higher resistance
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The potential of ecoregional range maps for boosting taxonomic coverage in ecology and conservation Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Stefan Pinkert, Yanina V. Sica, Kevin Winner, Walter Jetz
Expert range maps (ExpRMs) are frequently used to inform species distributions, but often incomplete or missing for many species, particularly among plants and invertebrates. Many species without ExpRMs also have too few occurrence records for reliable application of species distribution models (SDMs). Here we evaluate the performance of commonly used range surrogates and recommend tools that can help
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Spatial phenotypic variability is higher between island populations than between mainland populations worldwide Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Anna M. Csergő, Kevin Healy, Darren P. O'Connell, Maude E. A. Baudraz, David J. Kelly, Fionn Ó Marcaigh, Annabel L. Smith, Jesus Villellas, Cian White, Qiang Yang, Yvonne M. Buckley
Spatial isolation is a key driver of population-level variability in traits and genotypes worldwide. Geographical distance between populations typically increases isolation, but organisms face additional environmental barriers when dispersing between suitable habitat patches. Despite the predicted universal nature of the causes of isolation, global comparisons of isolation effects across taxa and geographic