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Salinity plays a limited role in determining rates of size evolution in fishes globally across multiple scales Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 John T. Clarke, Robert B. Davis
AimSubstantial progress has been made to map biodiversity and its drivers across the planet at multiple scales, yet studies that quantify the evolutionary processes that underpin this biodiversity, and test their drivers at multiple scales, are comparatively rare. Studying most fish species, we quantify rates of body size evolution to test the role of fundamental salinity habitats in shaping rates
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Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Iris Hordijk, Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, Thomas Lauber, Devin Routh, Lourens Poorter, Malin C. Rivers, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Peter B. Reich, Sergio de‐Miguel, Gert‐Jan Nabuurs, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Han Y. H. Chen, Mo Zhou, Susan K. Wiser, Hans Pretzsch, Alain Paquette, Nicolas Picard, Bruno Hérault, Jean‐Francois Bastin, Giorgio Alberti, Meinrad Abegg, Yves C. Adou Yao, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano
AimEcological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the following research questions: (1) What are the patterns of
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Disentangling ecological drivers of interspecific achromatic plumage variation in birds Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Su Wu, Kai Zhang, Bin Wang, Pinjia Que, Biao Yang, Yu Xu
AimUnderstanding the ecological determinants of interspecific achromatic (light‐to‐dark) plumage variation in birds is crucial yet challenging due to the complex interplay of climatic, habitat‐related, and morphological influences. This study aimed to disentangle the effects of temperature, precipitation, habitat openness, body mass and hand‐wing index (HWI, a widely used single‐parameter proxy for
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Climate and ecosystem type affect the correlated evolution of body size and trophic position in fishes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Guilherme Dalponti, Adriano Caliman, Josef C. Uyeda, Rafael D. Guariento
AimThe relationship between body size and trophic position (BS–TP) typically exhibits a positive correlation in aquatic foodwebs, but the strength of this relationship is contingent on ecosystem type and climate. Different hypotheses have been proposed to elucidate climate and ecosystem type effects on the BS–TP relationship for ray‐finned fish. However, our understanding of whether such a relationship
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Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Carlos Calderón del Cid, Torsten Hauffe, Juan D. Carrillo, Michael R. May, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Daniele Silvestro
AimSpecies age, the elapsed time since origination, can give insight into how species longevity might influence eco‐evolutionary dynamics, which has been hypothesized to influence extinction risk. Traditionally, species' ages have been estimated from fossil records. However, numerous studies have recently used the branch lengths of time‐calibrated phylogenies as estimates of the ages of extant species
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Controlled experiments fail to capture plant phenological response to chilling temperature Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Huanjiong Wang, Shaozhi Lin, Junhu Dai, Quansheng Ge
AimControlled experiments are increasingly important for investigating how and to what degree plant phenology responds to global climate change. Current experiments underline that chilling and forcing temperatures are two major environmental cues shaping the budburst date of temperate species, but whether experiments could reflect the observed responses to chilling has rarely been examined.LocationEurope
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Leaf area predicts conspecific spatial aggregation of woody species Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Jingjing Xi, Guolin C. Li, Min Wang, Stavros D. Veresoglou
AimAddressing how woody plant species are distributed in space can reveal inconspicuous drivers that structure plant communities. The spatial structure of conspecifics varies not only at local scales across co‐existing plant species but also at larger biogeographical scales with climatic parameters and habitat properties. The possibility that biogeographical drivers shape the spatial structure of plants
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Dispersal, glacial refugia and temperature shape biogeographical patterns in European freshwater biodiversity Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Daniela Cortés‐Guzmán, James Sinclair, Christian Hof, Jan B. Kalusche, Peter Haase
AimTemperature is regarded as an important driver of broad‐scale biodiversity patterns. However, less is known of the role of dispersal in shaping broad‐scale species and trait distributions, particularly given that species had to disperse out of glacial refugia after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Here, we used a unique dataset describing the distributions of freshwater fauna combined with trait
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A global assessment of nested patterns in insular mammal assemblages Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Virginie Millien, Chengxiu Zhan, Yanxia Li, Jiang Wang, Yanping Wang
AimA nested pattern (nestedness) in species composition is a frequent signature of insular communities. However, it remains unclear whether the drivers of nestedness are consistent across multiple island systems. Here, we investigated the pattern and drivers of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic nestedness in terrestrial mammal assemblages from 10 distinct island systems (archipelagos).LocationGlobal
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Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 David H. Klinges, J. Alex Baecher, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Ilya M. D. Maclean, Jonathan Lenoir, Caroline Greiser, Michael Ashcroft, Luke J. Evans, Michael R. Kearney, Juha Aalto, Isabel C. Barrio, Pieter De Frenne, Joannès Guillemot, Kristoffer Hylander, Tommaso Jucker, Martin Kopecký, Miska Luoto, Martin Macek, Ivan Nijs, Josef Urban, Liesbeth van den Brink, Pieter Vangansbeke, Jonathan Von Oppen, Jan
AimThe scale of environmental data is often defined by their extent (spatial area, temporal duration) and resolution (grain size, temporal interval). Although describing climate data scale via these terms is appropriate for most meteorological applications, for ecology and biogeography, climate data of the same spatiotemporal resolution and extent may differ in their relevance to an organism. Here
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EstablishMed, a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Lucía Acevedo-Limón, Beatriz Rumeu, Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez, Juan P. González-Varo
Plant establishment is the result of sequential demographic processes, namely post-dispersal seed survival, seed germination, seedling survival and sapling survival. These processes can be quantified as transition probabilities between life stages through field experiments, and their product provides an overall establishment probability. This information is essential to understand demography within
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Long-term climatic means affect the magnitude of short-term variability in population growth rates Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Liraz Bistritz, Ronen Kadmon, Curtis H. Flather, Michael Kalyuzhny
Temporal variability in population growth rates is a fundamental property of natural populations with implications for almost any facet in ecology and evolution. Using the framework of nonlinear averaging, we test the hypothesis that the magnitude of short-term variability in population growth rates is influenced by the long-term means of climatic conditions.
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Wind dispersed tree species have greater maximum height Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Ferry Slik, Bruno X. Pinho, Daniel M. Griffith, Edward Webb, Akhilesh Singh Raghubanshi, Adriano C. Quaresma, Aida Cuni Sanchez, Aisha Sultana, Alexandre F. Souza, Andreas Ensslin, Andreas Hemp, Andrew Lowe, Andrew R. Marshall, Kamalakumari Anitha, Anne Mette Lykke, Armadyanto, Asyraf Mansor, Atsri K. Honam, Axel D. Poulsen, Ben Sparrow, Benjamin J. W. Buckley, Bernat Ripoll Capilla, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque
We test the hypothesis that wind dispersal is more common among emergent tree species given that being tall increases the likelihood of effective seed dispersal.
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Linking regional species pool size to dispersal–selection relationships in soil fungal communities across terrestrial ecosystems Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Beibei Chen, Haibo Pan, Xiaofeng Song, Yajun Yao, Jiejun Qi, Xiaoli Bai, Ziheng Peng, Yu Liu, Shi Chen, Hang Gao, Chunling Liang, Jiai Liu, Jiamin Gao, Gehong Wei, Shuo Jiao
Revealing the role of regional species pool size in community assembly rules is essential for extending the species-pool framework to large-scale community ecology, and thus for more comprehensive understanding of biodiversity formation. However, little has been done to couple the regional species-pool effect into local ecological processes in soil fungal communities, which play essential roles in
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The rise and fall of shark functional diversity over the last 66 million years Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Jack A. Cooper, Catalina Pimiento
Modern sharks are a diverse and highly threatened group playing important roles in ecosystems. They have an abundant fossil record spanning at least 250 million years (Myr), consisting primarily of isolated teeth. Throughout their evolutionary history, sharks have faced multiple environmental changes and extinction events. Here, we aim to use dental characters to quantify how shark functional diversity
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Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Masha T. van der Sande, Lourens Poorter, Géraldine Derroire, Mario Marcos do Espirito Santo, Madelon Lohbeck, Sandra C. Müller, Radika Bhaskar, Michiel van Breugel, Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada, Sandra M. Durán, Catarina C. Jakovac, Horacio Paz, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal, Pedro Brancalion, Dylan Craven, Francisco Mora Ardilla, Jarcilene S. Almeida, Patricia Balvanera, Justin Becknell, Bryan Finegan, Ricardo
Successional changes in functional diversity provide insights into community assembly by indicating how species are filtered into local communities based on their traits. Here, we assess successional changes in taxonomic and functional richness, evenness and redundancy along gradients of climate, soil pH and forest cover.
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Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Jie Li, Minhui Hao, Yanxia Cheng, Xiuhai Zhao, Klaus von Gadow, Chunyu Zhang
Biodiversity across different scales provides multidimensional insurance for ecosystem functioning. Although the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem multifunctionality are well recorded in local communities, they remain poorly understood across scales (from local to larger spatial scales). This study evaluates how multiple attributes of biodiversity maintain ecosystem multifunctionality from local
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Functional and phylogenetic dimensions of tree biodiversity reveal unique geographic patterns Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Andrea Paz, Thomas W. Crowther, Daniel S. Maynard
Quantify tree functional and phylogenetic richness and divergence at the global scale, and explore the drivers underpinning these biogeographic patterns.
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Skeletal mineralogy of marine calcifying organisms shaped by seawater temperature and evolutionary history—A case study of cheilostome bryozoans Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Anna Piwoni-Piórewicz, Lee Hsiang Liow, Małgorzata Krzemińska, Maciej Chełchowski, Anna Iglikowska, Fabrizia Ronco, Mikołaj Mazurkiewicz, Abigail M. Smith, Dennis P. Gordon, Andrea Waeschenbach, Jens Najorka, Blanca Figuerola, Melissa K. Boonzaaier-Davids, Katerina Achilleos, Hannah Mello, Wayne K. Florence, Leandro M. Vieira, Andrew N. Ostrovsky, Natalia Shunatova, Joanne S. Porter, Noga Sokolover
Quantify the contribution of environmental factors (water temperature, salinity and depth) and evolutionary history to varied skeletal mineralogy in calcifying marine organisms.
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Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alex J. Jensen, Michael V. Cove, Benjamin R. Goldstein, Roland Kays, William McShea, Krishna Pacifici, Brigit Rooney, Elizabeth Kierepka
Synthesize literature on genetic structure within species to understand how geographic features and species traits influence past responses to climate change.
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A global latitudinal gradient in the proportion of terrestrial vertebrate forest species Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Benjamin Howes, Manuela González-Suárez, Cristina Banks-Leite, Flavia C. Bellotto-Trigo, Matthew G. Betts
Global patterns in species distributions such as the latitudinal biodiversity gradient are of great interest to ecologists and have been thoroughly studied. Whether such a gradient holds true for the proportion of species associated with key ecotypes such as forests is however unknown. Identifying a gradient and ascertaining the factors causing it could further our understanding of community sensitivity
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Evaluating models for estimating introduction rates of alien species from discovery records Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Yehezkel Buba, Moshe Kiflawi, Melodie A. McGeoch, Jonathan Belmaker
Reducing the rate of alien species introductions is a major conservation aim. However, accurately quantifying the rate at which species are introduced into new regions remains a challenge due to the confounding effect of observation efforts on discovery records. Despite the recognition of this issue, most analyses are still based on raw discovery records, leading to biased inferences. In this study
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Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in the distribution of genetic diversity of marine forests at the global scale Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Térence Legrand, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Lauren Vapillon, Lidiane Gouvêa, Ester A. Serrão, Jorge Assis
Genetic diversity of marine forests results from complex interactions of eco-evolutionary processes. Among them, oceanographic connectivity driven by dispersal through water transport is hypothesized to play a pivotal role, yet its relative contribution has not been addressed at the global scale. Here, we test how present-day oceanographic connectivity is correlated with the distribution of genetic
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Biogeographic isolation and climate shape the evolutionary heritage of Neotropical inselbergs Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Herval Vieira Pinto-Junior, Gustavo Heringer, Écio Souza Diniz, Larissa Areal de Carvalho Müller, Pedro Manuel Villa, João Augusto Alves Meira-Neto, Andreza Viana Neri
Quaternary climatic shifts can explain the current distribution of ancient ecosystems as well as the current distributions of gradients that hold species richness and diversity of several lineages in old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (OCBILs) as inselbergs. Thus, the combination of phylogenetic approaches and temporal landscape connectivity allows disentangling the mechanisms involved
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Global plant responses to intensified fire regimes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Roger Grau-Andrés, Bruno Moreira, Juli G. Pausas
Global change factors, such as warming, heatwaves, droughts and land-use changes, are intensifying fire regimes (defined here as increasing frequency or severity of fires) in many ecosystems worldwide. A large body of local-scale research has shown that such intensified fire regimes can greatly impact on ecosystem structure and function through altering plant communities. Here, we aim to find general
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Extinction selectivity obscures patterns of trait-dependent endangerment in Columbiformes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Natàlia Martínez-Rubio, Ferran Sayol, Oriol Lapiedra
Understanding how extinction has occurred in the recent past is crucial to unravel its main drivers as well as to implement effective conservation practices to minimize global biodiversity loss. It has long been hypothesized that extinction risk is not randomly distributed among traits of species. However, the actual traits making species more prone to extinction may have been overlooked because already
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The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Thomas A. Worthington, Mark Spalding, Emily Landis, Tania L. Maxwell, Alejandro Navarro, Lindsey S. Smart, Nicholas J. Murray
Tidal marsh ecosystems are heavily impacted by human activities, highlighting a pressing need to address gaps in our knowledge of their distribution. To better understand the global distribution and changes in tidal marsh extent, and identify opportunities for their conservation and restoration, it is critical to develop a spatial knowledge base of their global occurrence. Here, we develop a globally
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MEDIS—A comprehensive spatial database on Mediterranean islands for biogeographical and evolutionary research Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Francesco Santi, Riccardo Testolin, Piero Zannini, Michele Di Musciano, Virginia Micci, Lorenzo Ricci, Riccardo Guarino, Gianluigi Bacchetta, José María Fernández-Palacios, Mauro Fois, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Kadir Boğaç Kunt, Federico Lucchi, Frédéric Médail, Toni Nikolić, Rüdiger Otto, Salvatore Pasta, Maria Panitsa, Konstantinos Proios, Spyros Sfenthourakis, Stylianos M. Simaiakis, Claudio
The intrinsic characteristics of islands make them a unique study system for the investigation of ecological and evolutionary dynamics. The Mediterranean Basin, an island-rich biodiversity hotspot, still lacks a comprehensive spatial database for these geographic features. This study presents the first comprehensive spatial database of all Mediterranean islands larger than 0.01 km2, aiding ecological
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Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro-Palaearctic bird migration across Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Jennifer A. Border, Philipp H. Boersch-Supan, James W. Pearce-Higgins, Chris M. Hewson, Christine Howard, Philip A. Stephens, Stephen G. Willis, Alasdair I. Houston, Gabriel Gargallo, Stephen R. Baillie
Geographical patterns of migrant species arrival have been little studied, despite their relevance to global change responses. Here, we quantify continent-wide interspecific variation in spatiotemporal patterns of spring arrival of 30 common migrant bird species and relate these to species characteristics and environmental conditions.
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The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Juan A. Hernández-Agüero, Ildefonso Ruiz-Tapiador, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Mikhail V. Kozlov, Elina Mäntylä, Marcos E. Nacif, Norma Salinas, Luis Cayuela
Global-scale studies are necessary to draw general conclusions on how trophic interactions vary with urbanization and to explore how the effects of urbanization change along latitudinal gradients. We predict that the intensity of trophic interactions decreases in response to urbanization (quantified by human population density). Since trophic interactions are more intense at lower latitudes, we also
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Testing the deep-sea glacial disturbance hypothesis as a cause of low, present-day Norwegian Sea diversity and resulting steep latitudinal diversity gradient, using fossil records Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Anna B. Jöst, Huai-Hsuan M. Huang, Yuanyuan Hong, Chih-Lin Wei, Henning A. Bauch, Benoit Thibodeau, Thomas M. Cronin, Hisayo Okahashi, Moriaki Yasuhara
Within the intensively-studied, well-documented latitudinal diversity gradient, the deep-sea biodiversity of the present-day Norwegian Sea stands out with its notably low diversity, constituting a steep latitudinal diversity gradient in the North Atlantic. The reason behind this has long been a topic of debate and speculation. Most prominently, it is explained by the deep-sea glacial disturbance hypothesis
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Wild insects and honey bees are equally important to crop yields in a global analysis Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 James Reilly, Ignasi Bartomeus, Dylan Simpson, Alfonso Allen-Perkins, Lucas Garibaldi, Rachael Winfree
Most of the world's food crops are dependent on pollinators. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty in the strength of this relationship, especially regarding the relative contributions of the honey bee (often a managed species) and wild insects to crop yields on a global scale. Previous data syntheses have likewise reached differing conclusions on whether pollinator species diversity, or only
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occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Jeremy Borderieux, Brian Maitner, Coline C. F. Boonman, Daniel Park, Wen-Yong Guo, Arnaud Callebaut, Brian J. Enquist, Jens-C. Svenning, Cory Merow
Species occurrence data are valuable information that enables one to estimate geographical distributions, characterize niches and their evolution, and guide spatial conservation planning. Rapid increases in species occurrence data stem from increasing digitization and aggregation efforts, and citizen science initiatives. However, persistent quality issues in occurrence data can impact the accuracy
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Climbing mechanisms as a central trait to understand the ecology of lianas across the tropics Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Arildo S. Dias, Rafael S. Oliveira, Fernando R. Martins, Frans Bongers, Niels P. R. Anten, Frank J. Sterck
Lianas are a central component of tropical forests. However, how the type of climbing mechanisms is related to the functional and taxonomic diversity of lianas across the tropics, remains largely unresolved. Here, we tested two main hypotheses: (i) the functional diversity of lianas differs with climbing mechanism (active and passive) and (ii) the association between taxonomic diversity with contemporary
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KF-metaweb: A trophic metaweb of freshwater ecosystems of South Korea Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sagar Adhurya, Da-Yeong Lee, Young-Seuk Park
The metaweb is a dictionary of nodes and their potential interactions developed for a particular region, focusing on a particular type of ecosystem. Based on the local biodiversity information at different spatial and temporal scales, the regional metaweb can be easily decomposed into local webs. The generated local webs are useful for understanding spatiotemporal variations in ecological interactions
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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Julia Kemppinen, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Jofre Carnicer, Nathalie Isabelle Chardon, Paul Kardol, Jonathan Lenoir, Daijun Liu, Ilya Maclean, Jan Pergl, Patrick Saccone, Rebecca A. Senior, Ting Shen, Sandra Słowińska, Vigdis Vandvik, Jonathan von Oppen, Juha Aalto, Biruk Ayalew, Olivia Bates, Cleo Bertelsmeier, Romain Bertrand, Rémy Beugnon, Jeremy Borderieux, Josef Brůna, Lauren
Microclimate science has developed into a global discipline. Microclimate science is increasingly used to understand and mitigate climate and biodiversity shifts. Here, we provide an overview of the current status of microclimate ecology and biogeography in terrestrial ecosystems, and where this field is heading next.
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Coherent response of zoo- and phytoplankton assemblages to global warming since the Last Glacial Maximum Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 T. Strack, L. Jonkers, M. C. Rillo, K.-H. Baumann, H. Hillebrand, M. Kucera
We are using the fossil record of different marine plankton groups to determine how their biodiversity has changed during past climate warming comparable to projected future warming.
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Guillaume Delhaye, Sietse van der Linde, David Bauman, C. David L. Orme, Laura M. Suz, Martin I. Bidartondo
Ecoregions and the distance decay in community similarity are fundamental concepts in biogeography and conservation biology that are well supported across plants and animals, but not fungi. Here we test the relevance of these concepts for ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi in temperate and boreal regions.
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Demographic change and loss of big trees in resprouting eucalypt forests exposed to megadisturbance Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Eli R. Bendall, Luke C. Collins, Kirsty V. Milner, Michael Bedward, Matthias M. Boer, Brendan Choat, Rachael V. Gallagher, Belinda E. Medlyn, Rachael H. Nolan
Increased tree mortality linked to droughts and fires is occurring across temperate regions globally. Vegetation recovery has been widely reported; however, less is known about how disturbance may alter forests structurally and functionally across environmental gradients. We examined whether dry forests growing on low-fertility soils were more resilient to coupled extreme drought and severe fire owing
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Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Daniel S. Park, Kimberly M. Huynh, Xiao Feng
Darwin posited that invaders similar to native species are less likely to be successful due to competitive exclusion. A key axis across which such competition occurs across angiosperms is the timing of flowering, or reproductive phenology. It has been hypothesized that temporal isolation facilitates the establishment of introduced species. However, our knowledge of how the timing of flowering may influence
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Functional convergence underground? The scale-dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Stefano Mammola, Caio Graco-Roza, Francesco Ballarin, Thomas Hesselberg, Marco Isaia, Enrico Lunghi, Samuel Mouron, Martina Pavlek, Marco Tolve, Pedro Cardoso
Quantifying the relative contribution of environmental filtering versus limiting similarity in shaping communities is challenging because these processes often act simultaneously and their effect is scale-dependent. Focusing on caves, island-like natural laboratories with limited environmental variability and species diversity, we tested: (i) the relative contribution of environmental filtering and
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Plant functional traits couple with range size and shape in European trees Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Gabriele Midolo
Plant functional traits are frequently proposed as influential factors in species distribution. However, there is a gap in assessing how plant resource-economic traits relate to the size and shape of a species' geographical range, and to what extent these relationships are conserved over evolutionary history. Specifically, an acquisitive strategy (characterized by heightened metabolism, shorter lifespan
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Overlooked seed-dispersal modes and underestimated distances Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Juan P. González-Varo, Beatriz Rumeu, Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez, Lucía Acevedo-Limón, Christophe Baltzinger, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Andy J. Green
Long-distance seed dispersal is a crucial process determining the distribution of plant biodiversity and, therefore, of major interest in biogeography and macroecology. A recent data article on Global Ecology and Biogeography presented a database of estimated seed-dispersal distance classes for the European flora, where the classes are defined by the morphological dispersal syndrome of species associated
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Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Mark G. Tjoelker, Jonathan Lenoir, Bree Laugier, Rachael V. Gallagher
Eucalypts are important and popular urban tree species across cities worldwide. However, little is known about how their climatic niche breadth (CNB) and functional traits predict their success, and vulnerability, to current climate change in cities. We assessed the relationship between the CNB of eucalypts and key traits to understand their tolerance to climate change.
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Network specificity decreases community stability and competition among avian haemosporidian parasites and their hosts Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Daniela de Angeli Dutra, Robert Poulin
Parasites play a fundamental role in shaping ecological communities and influencing trophic interactions. Understanding the factors that drive parasite impacts on community structure and stability (i.e. resilience to disturbances) is crucial for predicting disease dynamics and implementing effective conservation strategies. In this study, using avian malaria and malaria-like parasites as a model system
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Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Chia Hsieh, Daniel Gorczynski, Robert Bitariho, Santiago Espinosa, Steig Johnson, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Francesco Rovero, Julia Salvador, Fernanda Santos, Douglas Sheil, Lydia Beaudrot
Tropical regions harbour over half of the world's mammals and birds, but how their communities have assembled over evolutionary timescales remains unclear. To compare eco-evolutionary assembly processes between tropical mammals and birds, we tested how hypotheses concerning niche conservatism, environmental stability, environmental heterogeneity and time-for-speciation relate to tropical vertebrate
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Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Biao Zhang, Kai Xue, Wenjing Liu, Shutong Zhou, Shipeng Nie, Yichao Rui, Li Tang, Zhe Pang, Linfeng Li, Junfu Dong, Cong Xu, Lili Jiang, Shaopeng Wang, Yanbin Hao, Xiaoyong Cui, Yanfen Wang
Species–area relationships (SAR) are widely utilized for estimating the species richness and its spatial turnover across various scales. Despite the prevalent characterization of SAR using the power law in many microbial community studies, its efficacy remains unvalidated. This study aims to characterize the microbial SAR and its mechanisms in alpine grassland soils on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP)
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Bayesian joint species distribution model selection for community-level prediction Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Malcolm S. Itter, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Anna-Liisa Laine, Leena Hamberg, Tiina Tonteri, Jarno Vanhatalo
Joint species distribution models (JSDMs) are an important tool for predicting ecosystem diversity and function under global change. The growing complexity of modern JSDMs necessitates careful model selection tailored to the challenges of community prediction under novel conditions (i.e., transferable models). Common approaches to evaluate the performance of JSDMs for community-level prediction are
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Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’ Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19
Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., … Meiri, S. (2022). A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31
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Macroclimate and canopy characteristics regulate forest understory microclimatic temperature offsets across China Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Siying Chen, Pieter De Frenne, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Qiqian Wu, Yan Peng, Haifeng Zheng, Kun Guo, Chaoxiang Yuan, Ling Xiong, Zemin Zhao, Xiangyin Ni, Fuzhong Wu, Kai Yue
Forest microclimates can contrast substantially from the macroclimate outside forests. These microclimates regulate understory biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Studies have quantified the global patterns and driving factors of forest understory temperature offsets, but data from China were almost missing, making the global assessment incomplete. To fill this knowledge gap, we quantitatively synthesized
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A unified framework for partitioning the drivers of stability of ecological communities Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jules Segrestin, Lars Götzenberger, Enrique Valencia, Francesco de Bello, Jan Lepš
Identifying the drivers of ecological stability is critical for ensuring the maintenance of ecosystem functioning and services, particularly in a changing world. Different ecological mechanisms by which biological communities stabilize ecosystem functions (i.e. “stabilizing effects”) have been proposed, yet with various theoretical expectations and debated conclusions. Here we propose a unified framework
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Geometric effects of fragmentation are likely to mitigate diversity loss following habitat destruction in real-world landscapes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Colleen Smith, Juan A. Bonachela, Dylan T. Simpson, Natalie J. Lemanski, Rachael Winfree
Habitat conversion is the number one threat to biodiversity. The loss of biodiversity due to habitat loss might be exacerbated if species are harmed by fragmentation per se—the breaking apart of natural habitat that remains (hereafter fragmentation). However, the evidence that species are harmed by habitat fragmentation is mixed. Studies at the patch scale tend to show that fragmentation reduces diversity
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Global patterns and determinants of multiple facets of plant diversity Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Enrico Tordoni, Carlos Pérez Carmona, Aurèle Toussaint, Riin Tamme, Meelis Pärtel
Combining different biodiversity dimensions can reveal new diversity patterns disclosing the relative roles of historical, environmental and anthropogenic factors in shaping global seed plant diversity.
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Increased frequency of extreme climatic events weakens the community stability of natural grassland under directional climate changes by reducing resilience Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Peipei Liu, Wangwang Lv, Jianping Sun, Shilong Piao, Yanfen Wang, Dorji Tsechoe, Caiyun Luo, Zhenhua Zhang, Bowen Li, Xiaowei Guo, Jingya Lv, Lanying Chen, Yingnian Li, Josep Peñuelas, Shiping Wang
Chronic directional climate changes in temperature and precipitation are predicted to increase the frequency of extreme climatic events (ECEs); however, their co-occurring effects on the temporal stability of community productivity (i.e. ANPP stability) are still unclear. Here, we evaluate whether the increased frequency of ECEs reduces ANPP stability, and how it modulates the effects of chronic directional
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Beyond salinity: Plants show divergent responses to soil ion composition Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ricarda Pätsch, Gabriele Midolo, Zuzana Dítě, Daniel Dítě, Viktoria Wagner, Michal Pavonič, Jiří Danihelka, Zdenka Preislerová, Mirjana Ćuk, Hans Georg Stroh, Tibor Tóth, Helena Chytrá, Milan Chytrý
In salt-affected environments, salinity shapes ecosystem functions and species composition. Apart from salinity, however, we know little about how soil chemical factors affect plant species. We hypothesized that specific ions, most of which contribute to salinity, co-determine plant niche differentiation. We asked if the importance of ions differs for species with (halophytes) and without (associated
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Common processes drive metacommunity structure in freshwater fish Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Taku Kadoya, Karin A. Nilsson, Jocelyn Kelly, Timothy J. Bartley, Torbjörn Säterberg, Matthew M. Guzzo, Ellen Esch, Dai Koide, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Akira Terui, Munemitsu Akasaka, Andrew S. MacDougall
Environmental change affects metacommunity structure both directly—via abiotic factors and dispersal that affect species occurrence—and indirectly—via complex interactions among co-occurring species. We examined how the three main metacommunity factors—environmental conditions, spatial processes and species associations—affect metacommunity structure and whether responses are predictable in real-world