The understanding of global diversity patterns has benefitted from a focus on functional traits and how they relate to variation in environmental conditions among assemblages. Distant …
M Lu, K Winner, W Jetz - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The quantification of Hutchinson's n‐dimensional hypervolume has enabled substantial progress in community ecology, species niche analysis and beyond. However, most existing …
Understanding variation of traits within and among species through time and across space is central to many questions in biology. Many resources assemble species-level trait data, but …
KD McEntire, M Gage, R Gawne… - Integrative and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Differences within a biological system are ubiquitous, creating variation in nature. Variation underlies all evolutionary processes and allows persistence and resilience in changing …
Many research and monitoring networks in recent decades have provided publicly available data documenting environmental and ecological change, but little is known about the status …
Aim Raptors, a highly threatened but ecologically important group of birds, have been recognized as a good proxy for overall biodiversity in conservation planning. However …
Understanding the drivers of community stability in times of increasing anthropogenic pressure is an urgent issue. Biodiversity is known to promote community stability, but studies …
Aim The expansive spatial scale of pelagic communities and the difficulty in acquiring pelagic species' functional traits have stymied an understanding of marine community …
WK Dodds, KC Rose, S Fei… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Macrosystems biology research has expanded and evolved over the past decade as the scientific community grapples with ecological issues at regional to continental scales …