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The effect of past defaunation on ranges, niches, and future biodiversity forec...
Sales, Lilian P.; Galetti, Mauro [UNESP]; Carnaval, Ana; Monsarrat, Sophie; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Pires, Mathias M.Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T15:46:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-01-01; Humans have reshaped the distribution of biodiversity across the globe, extirpating species from regions otherwise suitable and restricting populations to a subset of their original ranges. Here, we ask if anthropogenic range contractions since the Late Pleistocene led to an under-representation of the ...
Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range siz...
Fristoe, Trevor S; Chytrý, Milan; Dawson, Wayne; Essl, Franz; Heleno, Ruben; Kreft, Holger; Maurel, Noëlie; Pergl, Jan; Pyšek, Petr; Seebens, HannoUnderstanding drivers of success for alien species can inform on potential future invasions. Recent conceptual advances highlight that species may achieve invasiveness via performance along at least three distinct dimensions: 1) local abundance, 2) geographic range size, and 3) habitat breadth in naturalized distributions. Associations among these dimensions and the factors that determine success in each have y...
Megafauna decline have reduced pathogen dispersal which may have increased emer...
Doughty, Christopher E.; Prys-Jones, Tomos O.; Faurby, Søren; Abraham, Andrew J.; Hepp, Crystal; Leshyk, Victor; Fofanov, Viacheslav Y.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:39:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-08-01; The Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna (defined as animal species > 44.5 kg) reduced the dispersal of seeds and nutrients, and likely also microbes and parasites. Here we use body-mass based scaling and range maps for extinct and extant mammal species to show that these extinctions led to an almos...
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Kattge, Jens; Bönisch, Gerhard; Díaz, Sandra; Lavorel, Sandra; Prentice, Iain Colin; Leadley, Paul; Tautenhahn, Susanne; Werner, Gijsbert D. A.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; AXA Research Fund; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Natural Environment Research Council; Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem ...
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In C...
Hudson, Lawrence N; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L L; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R P; Alhusseini, Tamera IThe PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical mod...
Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with ...
Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Field, Richard; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Trigas, Panayiotis; Ah-Peng, Claudine; Attorre, Fabio; Birks, H. John B.AIM: Higher-elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to test the generality of the predicted pattern. We also compare it empirically with contrasting expectations from hypotheses invoking higher speciation with area, temperature and species richness. Location Thirty-two insular and 18 co...
Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with ...
Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Field, Richard; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Trigas, Panayiotis; Ah-Peng, Claudine; Attorre, Fabio; Birks, H. John B.Aim Higher-elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to test the generality of the predicted pattern. We also compare it empirically with contrasting expectations from hypotheses invoking higher speciation with area, temperature and species richness. Location Thirty-two insular and 18 con...
Determinants of bird species richness, endemism, and island network roles in Wa...
Dalsgaard, Bo; Carstensen, Daniel W. [UNESP]; Fjeldsa, Jon; Maruyama, Pietro K.; Rahbek, Carsten; Sandel, Brody; Sonne, Jesper; Svenning, Jens-ChristianMade available in DSpace on 2015-03-18T15:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-11-01Bitstream added on 2015-03-18T16:29:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 WOS000344476500012.pdf: 1197331 bytes, checksum: bc084f306396871f48167363b5b8b10d (MD5); Carlsberg Foundation; Danish Research Council \ Natural Sciences; Weis-Fogh fund at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge; Faculty of Science and...