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occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 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
AimSpecies 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 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Arildo S. Dias, Rafael S. Oliveira, Fernando R. Martins, Frans Bongers, Niels P. R. Anten, Frank J. Sterck
AimsLianas 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 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sagar Adhurya, Da‐Yeong Lee, Young‐Seuk Park
MotivationThe 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
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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 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
Brief introduction: What are microclimates and why are they important?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.Microclimate
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Coherent response of zoo‐ and phytoplankton assemblages to global warming since the Last Glacial Maximum Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 T. Strack, L. Jonkers, M. C. Rillo, K.‐H. Baumann, H. Hillebrand, M. Kucera
AimWe 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.LocationNorth Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas. Time series cover a latitudinal range from 75° N to 6° S.Time periodPast 24,000 years, from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the current warm period covering the last
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Guillaume Delhaye, Sietse van der Linde, David Bauman, C. David L. Orme, Laura M. Suz, Martin I. Bidartondo
AimEcoregions 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.LocationEurope.Time Period2008–2015.Major Taxa StudiedEctomycorrhizal fungi.MethodsWe used a large
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Demographic change and loss of big trees in resprouting eucalypt forests exposed to megadisturbance Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) 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
AimIncreased 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
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Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Daniel S. Park, Kimberly M. Huynh, Xiao Feng
AimDarwin 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
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Functional convergence underground? The scale‐dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Stefano Mammola, Caio Graco‐Roza, Francesco Ballarin, Thomas Hesselberg, Marco Isaia, Enrico Lunghi, Samuel Mouron, Martina Pavlek, Marco Tolve, Pedro Cardoso
AimQuantifying 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
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Plant functional traits couple with range size and shape in European trees Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Gabriele Midolo
AimPlant 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
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Overlooked seed‐dispersal modes and underestimated distances Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) 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 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Manuel Esperon‐Rodriguez, Mark G. Tjoelker, Jonathan Lenoir, Bree Laugier, Rachael V. Gallagher
AimEucalypts 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.LocationGlobal urban areas
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Network specificity decreases community stability and competition among avian haemosporidian parasites and their hosts Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Daniela de Angeli Dutra, Robert Poulin
AimParasites 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
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Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. (IF 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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 6.4) 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
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 6.4) 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
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
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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
We aimed to understand how biogeographical processes and moisture niche ecology contributed to the spatio-temporal diversification dynamics in the land snail genus Vertigo.
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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
Climate 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 existence
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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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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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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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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