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Macroclimate and canopy characteristics regulate forest understory microclimatic temperature offsets across China Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 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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Geometric effects of fragmentation are likely to mitigate diversity loss following habitat destruction in real‐world landscapes Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Colleen Smith, Juan A. Bonachela, Dylan T. Simpson, Natalie J. Lemanski, Rachael Winfree
AimHabitat 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
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A unified framework for partitioning the drivers of stability of ecological communities Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jules Segrestin, Lars Götzenberger, Enrique Valencia, Francesco de Bello, Jan Lepš
AimIdentifying 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
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Global patterns and determinants of multiple facets of plant diversity Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Enrico Tordoni, Carlos Pérez Carmona, Aurèle Toussaint, Riin Tamme, Meelis Pärtel
AimCombining different biodiversity dimensions can reveal new diversity patterns disclosing the relative roles of historical, environmental and anthropogenic factors in shaping global seed plant diversity.LocationGlobal.Time periodPresent.Major taxa studiedVascular plants.MethodsWe collated a database encompassing taxonomic (249,000 species), functional and phylogenetic information (34,694 species)
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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 6.4) 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
AimChronic 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
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Beyond salinity: Plants show divergent responses to soil ion composition Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) 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
AimIn 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 6.4) 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
AimEnvironmental 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
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Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Michal Horsák, David Ortiz, Jeffrey C. Nekola, Bert Van Bocxlaer
AimWe aimed to understand how biogeographical processes and moisture niche ecology contributed to the spatio‐temporal diversification dynamics in the land snail genus Vertigo.LocationGlobal (North America, Europe, Asia, Africa).Time PeriodCenozoic era.Major Taxa StudiedMinute terrestrial snails of the genus Vertigo.MethodsWe reconstructed a time‐calibrated phylogeny of 94 Vertigo taxa (~85% of all
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Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Joris H. Wiethase, Philip S. Mostert, Christopher R. Cooney, Robert B. O'Hara, Colin M. Beale
AimClimate change and habitat loss or degradation are some of the greatest threats that species face today, often resulting in range shifts. Species traits have been discussed as important predictors of range shifts, with the identification of general trends being of great interest to conservation efforts. However, studies reviewing relationships between traits and range shifts have questioned the
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Bio-ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Jorge Assis, Salvador Jesús Fernández Bejarano, Vinícius W. Salazar, Lennert Schepers, Lidiane Gouvêa, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Frederic Leclercq, Bart Vanhoorne, Lennert Tyberghein, Ester A. Serrão, Heroen Verbruggen, Olivier De Clerck
Impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity are often projected with species distribution modelling using standardized data layers representing physical, chemical and biological conditions of the global ocean. Yet, the available data layers (1) have not been updated to incorporate data of the Sixth Phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which comprise the Shared Socioeconomic
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Seasonal migration and the evolution of an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in shorebirds Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Paul Dufour, Pierre-André Crochet, Fabien L. Condamine, Sébastien Lavergne
While the evolution of seasonal migration and its association with biogeography have been the subject of numerous studies, its influence on species diversification has rarely been examined. The aim of this study is to explain the atypical latitudinal diversity gradient in shorebirds: did seasonal migration influence diversification and did the gradient evolve from higher in situ diversification or
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Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life-history traits at larger spatial scales Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Caroline M. McKeon, Yvonne M. Buckley, Meadhbh Moriarty, Mathieu Lundy, Ruth Kelly
Human pressure in the oceans is pervasive and affects marine life. Understanding species' differing responses to human pressure, and how human pressure compares to other environmental variables in shaping marine communities is needed to facilitate the sustainable management of the seas. Despite theory and empirical evidence that fishing pressure affects marine life-history strategies, several recent
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Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jeffrey W. Doser, Marc Kéry, Sarah P. Saunders, Andrew O. Finley, Brooke L. Bateman, Joanna Grand, Shannon Reault, Aaron S. Weed, Elise F. Zipkin
Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly applied across macroscales using detection-nondetection data. These models typically assume that a single set of regression coefficients can adequately describe species–environment relationships and/or population trends. However, such relationships often show nonlinear and/or spatially varying patterns that arise from complex interactions with abiotic
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Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Emma-Liina Marjakangas, Alison Johnston, Andrea Santangeli, Aleksi Lehikoinen
Some species thrive in human-dominated environments, while others are highly sensitive to all human pressures. However, standardized estimates of species' tolerances to human pressures are lacking at large spatial extents and taxonomic breadth. Here, we quantify the world's bird species' tolerances to human pressures. The associated precision values can be applied to scientific research and conservation
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Space use of invertebrates in terrestrial habitats: Phylogenetic, functional and environmental drivers of interspecific variations Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Gwenaëlle Auger, Julien Pottier, Jérôme Mathieu, Franck Jabot
We present the first global database of movement patterns of terrestrial invertebrates, focusing on active dispersal and foraging movements. We depict interspecific variations in movement distances among invertebrates and assess potential drivers of these variations. We finally contrast our results with those of previous vertebrate studies.
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SquamBase—A database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Shai Meiri
I present a database that contains information on multiple key traits for all 11,744 recognised species of squamates worldwide. The database encompasses key traits and a reasonably comprehensive picture of available public knowledge. I present comprehensive description of the sources and rationale leading to the assignment of each particular trait state for each species. I hope the dataset can serve
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Dispersal limitation shapes distance-decay patterns of European spiders at the continental scale Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ramiro Martín-Devasa, Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, Fabien Leprieur, Andrés Baselga, Carola Gómez-Rodríguez
To assess the relative relevance of dispersal limitation and species sorting as drivers of spatial turnover between spider faunas of European territories.
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Records of urban occurrences expand estimates of the climate niches in tree species Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 S. Das, A. Ossola, L. J. Beaumont
Quantifying a species' climate niche is often the first step to determining potential sensitivity to climate change. This process typically relies on native occurrence records, assuming that these reflect the breadth of a species' climatic requirements. Yet, many species survive in non-native regions with climates beyond their native range. Identifying their characteristics could help to better elucidate
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A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Shahar Dubiner, Rocío Aguilar, Rodolfo O. Anderson, Diego M. Arenas Moreno, Luciano J. Avila, Estefania Boada-Viteri, Martin Castillo, David G. Chapple, Christian O. Chukwuka, Alison Cree, Félix B. Cruz, Guarino R. Colli, Indraneil Das, Michel-Jean Delaugerre, Wei-Guo Du, Angel Dyugmedzhiev, Tiffany M. Doan, Paula Escudero, Jules Farquhar, Alison M. Gainsbury, Brian S. Gray, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth
Squamate fitness is affected by body temperature, which in turn is influenced by environmental temperatures and, in many species, by exposure to solar radiation. The biophysical drivers of body temperature have been widely studied, but we lack an integrative synthesis of actual body temperatures experienced in the field, and their relationships to environmental temperatures, across phylogeny, behaviour
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Trait-matching models predict pairwise interactions across regions, not food web properties Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Dominique Caron, Ulrich Brose, Miguel Lurgi, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Dominique Gravel, Laura J. Pollock
Food webs are essential for understanding how ecosystems function, but empirical data on the interactions that make up these ecological networks are lacking for most taxa in most ecosystems. Trait-based models can fill these data gaps, but their ability to do so has not been widely tested. We test how well these models can extrapolate to new ecological communities both in terms of pairwise predator–prey
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Remote sensing biodiversity monitoring in Latin America: Emerging need for sustained local research and regional collaboration to achieve global goals Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Carol X. Garzon-Lopez, Alejandro Miranda, Daniel Moya, Veronica Andreo
Biodiversity monitoring at global scales has been identified as one of the priorities to halt biodiversity loss. In this context, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), home to 60% of the global biodiversity, play an important role in the development of an integrative biodiversity monitoring platform. In this review, we explore to what extent LAC has advanced in the adoption of remote sensing for biodiversity
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Mean landscape-scale incidence of species in discrete habitats is patch size dependent Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 David C. Deane, Cang Hui, Melodie McGeoch
A pervasive negative relationship between the species richness of an assemblage and the mean global range size of the species it contains has recently been identified. Here, we test for an effect of habitat patch size on the mean landscape-scale incidence (estimating local range size) of constituent species independent of variation in richness.
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Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Felipe O. Cerezer, Amanda B. Campos, Cristian S. Dambros, Renan Maestri, Jamile M. Bubadué, Nilton C. Cáceres
Animal coloration varies in response to environmental conditions. One well-known principle, Gloger's rule, suggests that warmer and wetter environments lead to more pigmented animals. Yet, the original formulation lacks differentiation between the two primary melanin pigments: eumelanin and pheomelanin. We examined spatial eumelanin and pheomelanin variation to unravel the impact of various ecological
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Biomass and trait biogeography of cephalopods on the European and North American continental shelves Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Daniel Ottmann, Ken H. Andersen, P. Daniël van Denderen
We evaluate whether the biomass and trait biogeography of cephalopods follow the distribution expected by metabolic theory for ectotherms with rapid growth and high metabolic rate.
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Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Florent Noulèkoun, Sylvanus Mensah, Kangbéni Dimobe, Emiru Birhane, Eguale Tadesse Kifle, Jesse Naab, Yowhan Son, Asia Khamzina
Despite mounting empirical evidence regarding the positive effects of forest structural diversity (STRDIV) on forest functioning, the underlying biotic mechanisms and controlling abiotic factors remain poorly understood. This study provides the first assessment of the interactive effects of STRDIV and diversity in species and functional traits on aboveground biomass (AGB) in natural forests in West
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Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Elise Bouchard, Eric B. Searle, Pierre Drapeau, Jingjing Liang, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Meinrad Abegg, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica Almeyda Zambrano, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Luciana F. Alves, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo Aymard, Jean-François Bastin, Philippe Birnbaum, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro Brancalion, Eben Broadbent, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Goran Češljar, Chelsea Chisholm
To determine the relationships between the functional trait composition of forest communities and environmental gradients across scales and biomes and the role of species relative abundances in these relationships.
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FLAMITS: A global database of plant flammability traits Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Korina Ocampo-Zuleta, Juli G. Pausas, Susana Paula
The propensity of plant tissues to burn (i.e. their flammability) is a key trait to understand fire regimes in many ecosystems across the globe. Measuring plant flammability under laboratory conditions allows us to improve both our understanding of plant evolutionary processes and modelling tools for simulating fire hazard and behaviour. Plant flammability has been studied from different but complementary
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Synergistic polyploidization and long-distance dispersal enable the global diversification of yellowcress herbs Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Ting-Shen Han, Chih-Chieh Yu, Quan-Jing Zheng, Seisuke Kimura, Renske E. Onstein, Yao-Wu Xing
Long-distance dispersal (LDD) plays an important role in shaping the distribution of global biodiversity. Polyploidy could favour invasion and thereby facilitate LDD. However, how and to what extent polyploidy interacts with LDD remain unclear. Here, we test the putative role of polyploidy in the global dispersal of a cosmopolitan genus Rorippa.
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Beta-diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Sebastian Steibl, James C. Russell
Atolls are a widely distributed, common type of tropical ecosystem, each consisting of an annular coral reef and up to several hundred individual islets sitting on the reef platform. The small land areas and low elevation render the terrestrial communities susceptible to local extinctions from overwash and inundation due to tropical cyclones. Such recurring catastrophic disturbances should be expected
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Geography, taxonomy, extinction risk and exposure of fully migratory birds to droughts and cyclones Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Rhys G. G. Preston-Allen, Henry Häkkinen, Laura Cañellas-Dols, Eric I. Ameca y Juarez, C. David L. Orme, Nathalie Pettorelli
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to drive unprecedented increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events, such as drought and cyclones. The impacts of these events on fully migratory species could be particularly severe and have cascading effects on the functioning of many ecosystems. We explore the relationships between geography, taxonomy, extinction risk and the exposure
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High phenotypic variation found within the offspring of each mother tree in Fagus sylvatica regardless of the environment or source population Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jonas Schmeddes, Lena Muffler, Adrià Barbeta, Ilka Beil, Andreas Bolte, Stefanie Holm, Pascal Karitter, Marcin Klisz, Magnus Löf, Manuel Nicolas, Josep Peñuelas, Yann Vitasse, Robert Weigel, Juergen Kreyling
Climate change challenges temperate forest trees by increasingly irregular precipitation and rising temperatures. Due to long generation cycles, trees cannot quickly adapt genetically. Hence, the persistence of tree populations in the face of ongoing climate change depends largely on phenotypic variation, that is the capability of a genotype to express variable phenotypes under different environmental
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Human modification of land cover alters net primary productivity, species richness and their relationship Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Shuyu Deng, Colin M. Beale, Philip J. Platts, Chris D. Thomas
Humans have altered ecosystem productivity and biodiversity worldwide by changing land-cover types and management. High local species richness is commonly found in geographic areas and ecosystems with high net primary productivity (NPP), but the long-term effects of modification on productivity and biodiversity change, and particularly on the relationship between the two, are poorly understood. Here
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Megafire: An ambiguous and emotive term best avoided by science Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Cathelijne R. Stoof, Jasper R. de Vries, Marc Castellnou Ribau, Mariña F. Fernández, David Flores, Julissa Galarza Villamar, Nicholas Kettridge, Desmond Lartey, Peter F. Moore, Fiona Newman Thacker, Susan J. Prichard, Pepijn Tersmette, Sam Tuijtel, Ivo Verhaar, Paulo M. Fernandes
As fire regimes are changing and wildfire disasters are becoming more frequent, the term megafire is increasingly used to describe impactful wildfires, under multiple meanings, both in academia and popular media. This has resulted in a highly ambiguous concept.
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Soil fertility shapes fire activity across Mediterranean-type climate regions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Susana Paula, Diego P. Ramírez, Sergio Estay, Juli G. Pausas
To quantify the role of soil fertility in the spatial variability of fire activity and to identify the mechanisms that drive this variability.
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Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range-wide occurrence predictions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jussi Mäkinen, Cory Merow, Walter Jetz
Species distribution models (SDMs) that integrate presence-only and presence–absence data offer a promising avenue to improve information on species' geographic distributions. The use of such ‘integrated SDMs’ on a species range-wide extent has been constrained by the often limited presence–absence data and by the heterogeneous sampling of the presence-only data. Here, we evaluate integrated SDMs for
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Macroecological c onstraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Samantha Straus, Coreen Forbes, Chelsea J. Little, Rachel M. Germain, Danielle A. Main, Mary I. O'Connor, Patrick L. Thompson, Adam T. Ford, Dominique Gravel, Laura Melissa Guzman
Animals couple habitats by three types of movement: dispersal, migration, and foraging, which dynamically link populations, communities, and ecosystems. Across these types, movement distances tend to correlate with each other, potentially reflecting allometric scaling with body mass, but ecological and evolutionary species' traits may constrain movement distances and weaken these correlations. Here
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Influence of model complexity, training collinearity, collinearity shift, predictor novelty and their interactions on ecological forecasting Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Xin Chen, Ye Liang, Xiao Feng
Ecological forecasting is critical in understanding of ecological responses to climate change and is increasingly used in climate mitigation plans. The forecasts from correlative models can be challenged by model complexity, training collinearity, collinearity shift and novel conditions of predictors that are common during model extrapolation. The individual effect of these four factors has been investigated
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Nest traits for the world's birds Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Catherine Sheard, Sally E. Street, Susan D. Healy, Camille A. Troisi, Andrew D. Clark, Antonia Yovcheva, Alexis Trébaol, Karina Vanadzina, Kevin N. Lala
A well-constructed nest is a key element of successful reproduction in most species of birds, and nest morphology varies widely across the class. Macroecological and macroevolutionary studies tend to group nest design into a small number of discrete categories, often based on taxonomic inference. In reality, however, many species display considerable intraspecific variation in their nest-building behaviour
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Local compositional change and regional stability across 3000 years of coral reef development Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Timothy L. Staples, John M. Pandolfi
Measuring changes in ecological diversity over time is core to understanding and managing human impacts on natural systems. Observational data do not capture pre-modern community states or multiple generations of long-lived taxa, so interpretation of current diversity trends requires comparison with the past. We aimed to estimate diversity trends over long time periods in a series of fossil coral terraces
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Trait dimensions of abiotic stress tolerance in woody plants of the Northern Hemisphere Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Nicola Pavanetto, Carlos P. Carmona, Lauri Laanisto, Ülo Niinemets, Giacomo Puglielli
Trade-offs among tolerances to different abiotic stressors limit polytolerance in woody plants. However, the general trait syndromes that underlie large-scale tolerance patterns of woody plants remain controversial. Here, we tested if the leading trait dimensions that define the global spectrum of plant form and function capture the underlying trait trade-offs limiting woody plant polytolerance.
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Biome classification influences current and projected future biome distributions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Simon Scheiter, Dushyant Kumar, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Liam Langan
Biome classification schemes are widely used to map biogeographic patterns of vegetation formations on large spatial scales. Future climate change will influence biome patterns, and vegetation models can be used to assess the susceptibility of biomes to experience transitions. However, biome classification is not unique, and various classification schemes and biome maps exist. Here, we aimed to assess
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Trait–micro-environment relationships of forest herb communities across Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sanne Govaert, Camille Meeussen, Thomas Vanneste, Kurt Bollmann, Jörg Brunet, Kim Calders, Sara A. O. Cousins, Karen De Pauw, Martin Diekmann, Bente J. Graae, Per-Ola Hedwall, Giovanni Iacopetti, Jonathan Lenoir, Sigrid Lindmo, Anna Orczewska, Quentin Ponette, Jan Plue, Pieter Sanczuk, Federico Selvi, Fabien Spicher, Kris Verheyen, Pieter Vangansbeke, Pieter De Frenne
The microclimate and light conditions on the forest floor are strongly modified by tree canopies. Therefore, we need to better consider the micro-environment when quantifying trait–environment relationships for forest understorey plants. Here, we quantify relationships between micro-environmental conditions and plant functional traits at the community level, including intraspecific trait variation
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Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Marco Davoli, Sophie Monsarrat, Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen, Paolo Scussolini, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Signe Normand, Jens-Christian Svenning
Reconstructing megafauna diversity in the past before anthropogenic impacts is crucial for developing targeted restoration strategies. We estimated the diversity and functional decline of European megafauna in the present compared with the nearest in-time climate period analogue to the present but prior to the worldwide diffusion of Homo sapiens.
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Contrasting effects of frugivore assemblages and phylogeny on global variation in fruit length and width Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Fei Yu, Mingming Zhang, Yang Wang, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Xianfeng Yi
The evolution of fruit size is poorly understood, though long-standing hypotheses, the dispersal syndrome hypothesis and correlated evolution hypothesis, have highlighted the influence of frugivores and phylogeny on fruit size variation.
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Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light-size or zooplankton community-size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature-size rule Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Gabriella Ljungström, Tom Langbehn, Christian Jørgensen
Bergman patterns, the tendency of organisms to be larger at higher latitudes and lower temperatures, are a well-studied biogeographic pattern. Yet, there is no consensus on the driver or underlying mechanisms. We aim to scrutinize the influence of several key proposed drivers of Bergmann patterns (temperature, seasonal light availability, prey size and seasonal abundance) on optimal body size in planktivorous
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Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Johanna Andrea Martínez-Villa, Sandra M. Durán, Brian J. Enquist, Alvaro Duque, Christian Messier, Alain Paquette
Andean forests are a global biodiversity hotspot. They harbour many species living within narrow climate ranges and a high functional diversity of trees. It remains still unclear how such hotspots respond to climatic changes over time. We investigated whether Andean forests are changing their functional composition over time along an elevational gradient by assessing changes in species composition
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Does non-native diversity mirror Earth's biodiversity? Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Elizabeta Briski, Syrmalenia G. Kotronaki, Ross N. Cuthbert, Alejandro Bortolus, Marnie L. Campbell, Jaimie T. A. Dick, Paul Fofonoff, Bella S. Galil, Chad L. Hewitt, Julie L. Lockwood, Hugh J. MacIsaac, Anthony Ricciardi, Gregory Ruiz, Evangelina Schwindt, Ulrich Sommer, Aibin Zhan, James T. Carlton
Human activities have introduced numerous non-native species (NNS) worldwide. Understanding and predicting large-scale NNS establishment patterns remain fundamental scientific challenges. Here, we evaluate if NNS composition represents a proportional subset of the total species pool available to invade (i.e. total global biodiversity), or, conversely, certain taxa are disproportionately pre-disposed
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Temporal changes in the individual size distribution modulate the long-term trends of biomass and energy use of North American breeding bird communities Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Renata M. Diaz, S. K. Morgan Ernest
The frequency of different body sizes in an ecological community (the individual size distribution, or ISD) is a key link between the number of individual organisms present in a community and community function—total biomass or total energy use. If the ISD changes over time, the dynamics of community function may become decoupled from trends in abundance. Understanding how, and how often, the ISD modulates
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Increasing global ecosystem respiration between 1982 and 2015 from Earth observation-based modelling Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Torbern Tagesson, Julia Kelly, Guy Schurgers, Feng Tian, Jonas Ardö, Stephanie Horion, Anders Ahlström, Stefan Olin, Rasmus Fensholt
Earth observation-based estimates of land–atmosphere exchange of carbon are essential for understanding the response of the terrestrial biosphere to climatic change and other anthropogenic forcing. Temperature, soil water content and gross primary production are the main drivers of ecosystem respiration (Reco), and the main aims of this study are to develop an Reco model driven by long-term global-scale
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Microbial traits dictate soil necromass accumulation coefficient: A global synthesis Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Bingbing Han, Yanzhong Yao, Yini Wang, Xiaoxuan Su, Lihua Ma, Xinping Chen, Zhaolei Li
The accumulation of microbial necromass carbon has gained increasing attention due to its slow decomposition. However, it remains unclear what induces the accumulation of microbial necromass carbon via reiterated community turnover on large spatial scales. This study explores the characteristics of soil necromass carbon accumulation in terrestrial ecosystems.
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A global synthesis and conceptualization of the magnitude and duration of soil carbon losses in response to forest disturbances Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Mathias Mayer, Andri Baltensweiler, Jason James, Andreas Rigling, Frank Hagedorn
Forest disturbances are increasing around the globe due to changes in climate and management, deteriorating forests' carbon sink strength. Estimates of global forest carbon budgets account for losses of plant biomass but often neglect the effects of disturbances on soil organic carbon (SOC). Here, we aimed to quantify and conceptualize SOC losses in response to different disturbance agents on a global
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The anthropogenic imprint on temperate and boreal forest demography and carbon turnover Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Thomas A. M. Pugh, Rupert Seidl, Daijun Liu, Mats Lindeskog, Louise P. Chini, Cornelius Senf
The sweeping transformation of the biosphere by humans over the last millennia leaves only limited windows into its natural state. Much of the forests that dominated temperate and southern boreal regions have been lost and those that remain typically bear a strong imprint of forestry activities and past land-use change, which have changed forest age structure and composition. Here, we ask how would
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The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Iñaki Odriozola, Tijana Martinović, Tereza Mašínová, Barbara Doreen Bahnmann, Antonín Machac, Petr Sedlák, Michal Tomšovský, Petr Baldrian
How community composition varies in space and what governs the variation has been extensively investigated in macroorganisms. However, we have only limited knowledge of microorganisms, especially fungi, despite their ecological and economic significance. Based on previous research, we define and test a series of hypotheses regarding the composition of fungal communities, their most influential drivers
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Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate-mediated disturbances Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Anna K. Cresswell, Michael Renton, Tim J. Langlois, Damian P. Thomson, Jasmine Lynn, Joachim Claudet
The aim of this study was to understand the interplay between resistance and recovery on coral reefs, and to investigate dependence on pre- and post-disturbance states, to inform generalizable reef resilience theory across large spatial and temporal scales.
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The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Maquelle N. Garcia, Tomas F. Domingues, Rafael S. Oliveira, Flávia R. C. Costa
Understanding tree mortality under climate change-induced droughts requires knowledge of hydraulic trait distribution across environmental gradients. The spatial distribution of embolism resistance (i.e., P50), a key trait linked to hydraulic failure, is currently unknown across the Amazon. Here, we tested how precipitation, water table depth (WTD) and soil fertility interact as filters modulating
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Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity? Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Elisa Van Cleemput, Peter Adler, Katharine Nash Suding
The spectral variability hypothesis (SVH) predicts that spectral diversity, defined as the variability of radiation reflected from vegetation, increases with biodiversity. While confirmation of this hypothesis would pave the path for use of remote sensing to monitor biodiversity, support in herbaceous ecosystems is mixed. Methodological aspects related to scale have been the predominant explanation
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Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jacob D. O'Sullivan, J. Christopher D. Terry, Axel G. Rossberg
The mechanisms determining the distribution of the number of sites species occupy, the occupancy frequency distribution (OFD), remain incompletely understood despite decades of research. To explore the dominant mechanisms responsible for the shape and temporal dynamics of empirical OFD, we develop a simple patch occupancy framework with intrinsically regulated local richness and fit the model to a
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Correction to “Global patterns and predictors of avian population density” Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-05
Santini, L., Tobias, J. A., Callaghan, C., Gallego-Zamorano, J., & Benítez-López, A. Global patterns and predictors of avian population density. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2023; 32(7): 1189–1204. In the original version of the published article, we made a mistake in the species-level predictions of population density (Appendix S2). The mistake originated from taking the mean of log10 predicted
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Asymmetric impacts of surface thaw onset change on seasonal vegetation growth in Arctic permafrost Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Xing Chen, Sujong Jeong
Changes in surface thaw onset in Arctic permafrost can regulate terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. Permafrost surface thaw onset has advanced significantly because of strong Arctic warming. However, surface thaw onset change effects on vegetation during the different growing season stages remain unclear.
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Biomass burning in the Neotropics is exposing migrating birds to elevated fine particulate matter concentrations Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Frank A. La Sorte, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Myla F. J. Aronson, Kyle G. Horton
A unique risk faced by nocturnally migrating birds is the disorienting influence of artificial light at night (ALAN). ALAN originates from anthropogenic activities that can generate other forms of environmental pollution, including the emission of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). PM2.5 concentrations can display strong seasonal variation whose origin can be natural or anthropogenic. How this variation