Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence

UE Schlägel, V Grimm, N Blaum, P Colangeli… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organismal movement is ubiquitous and facilitates important ecological mechanisms that
drive community and metacommunity composition and hence biodiversity. In most existing …

How artificial light at night may rewire ecological networks: concepts and models

D Sanders, MR Hirt, U Brose… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is eroding natural light cycles and thereby changing species
distributions and activity patterns. Yet little is known about how ecological interaction …

Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups

G Le Provost, I Badenhausser… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Land-use change is a major driver of biodiversity loss worldwide. Although biodiversity often
shows a delayed response to land-use change, previous studies have typically focused on a …

The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks

S Larsen, L Comte, A Filipa Filipe, MJ Fortin… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dendritic habitats, such as river ecosystems, promote the persistence of species by
favouring spatial asynchronous dynamics among branches. Yet, our understanding of how …

Landscape heterogeneity buffers biodiversity of simulated meta-food-webs under global change through rescue and drainage effects

R Ryser, MR Hirt, J Häussler, D Gravel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Habitat fragmentation and eutrophication have strong impacts on biodiversity.
Metacommunity research demonstrated that reduction in landscape connectivity may cause …

Exploring biodiversity patterns at the landscape scale by linking landscape energy and land use/land cover heterogeneity

A Darvishi, M Yousefi, M Schirrmann, F Ewert - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Agricultural Biodiversity dynamics has been evaluated by social metabolism or by
landscape structure-function analysis. In this study, by using ELIA modeling, we used both …

Niche complementarity among plants and animals can alter the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship

A Amyntas, E Berti, B Gauzens, G Albert… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species‐rich communities exhibit higher levels of ecosystem functioning compared with
species‐poor ones, and this positive relationship strengthens over time. One proposed …

Modern models of trophic meta-communities

T Gross, KT Allhoff, B Blasius… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dispersal and foodweb dynamics have long been studied in separate models. However,
over the past decades, it has become abundantly clear that there are intricate interactions …

The travel speeds of large animals are limited by their heat-dissipation capacities

A Dyer, U Brose, E Berti, B Rosenbaum, MR Hirt - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Movement is critical to animal survival and, thus, biodiversity in fragmented landscapes.
Increasing fragmentation in the Anthropocene necessitates predictions about the movement …

High importance of indirect evolutionary rescue in a small food web

E van Velzen - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary rescue may allow species to survive environmental change, but how this
mechanism operates in food webs is poorly understood. Here, the evolutionary rescue was …