Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across …

RJ Rolls, DC Deane, SE Johnson, J Heino… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity

F Hua, W Wang, S Nakagawa, S Liu, X Miao… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The biodiversity impacts of agricultural deforestation vary widely across regions. Previous
efforts to explain this variation have focused exclusively on the landscape features and …

Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene

X Feng, AT Peterson, LJ Aguirre‐López… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors
that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic …

Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats

E Pagani‐Núñez, D Liang, C He, X Zhou, X Luo… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐mediated habitat transformation is increasingly evident around the world. Yet, how
this transformation influences species' niche width and overlap remains unclear. On the one …

Elevational changes in the avian community of a Mesoamerican cloud forest park

MHC Neate‐Clegg, SEI Jones, O Burdekin… - Biotropica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Harboring many range‐restricted and specialized species, high elevation tropical cloud
forests are diverse habitats represented in many protected areas. Despite this, many such …

The response of mixed-species bird flocks to anthropogenic disturbance and elevational variation in southwest China

L Zhou, I Peabotuwage, H Gu, D Jiang, G Hu… - The Condor, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Avian mixed-species flocks (MSFs) are an important example of species interactions
threatened by the biodiversity crisis. They are found throughout the world in forested habitats …

Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude

R Sreekar, M Katabuchi… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The relationship between β-diversity and latitude still remains to be a core question in
ecology because of the lack of consensus between studies. One hypothesis for the lack of …

Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: Implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes

R Sreekar, X Si, K Sam, J Liu… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The conversion of rainforests into agriculture resulted in massive changes in species
diversity and community structure. Although the conservation of the remaining rainforests is …

Elevation shapes the reassembly of Anthropocene lizard communities

LO Frishkoff, E Gabot, G Sandler, C Marte… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Human impacts, especially land-use change, are precipitating biodiversity loss. Yet
anthropogenic drivers are layered atop natural biogeographic gradients. We ask whether …