Mitigating the precipitous decline of terrestrial European insects: Requirements for a new strategy
JC Habel, MJ Samways, T Schmitt - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2019 - Springer
Severe decline in terrestrial insect species richness, abundance, flying biomass, and local
extinctions across Europe are cause for alarm. Here, we summarize this decline, and identify …
extinctions across Europe are cause for alarm. Here, we summarize this decline, and identify …
Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats
Dispersal is a critical yet poorly understood factor underlying macroecological patterns in
microbial communities. Airborne microbial transport is assumed to occupy a central role in …
microbial communities. Airborne microbial transport is assumed to occupy a central role in …
Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change
As Earth's climate has varied strongly through geological time, studying the impacts of past
climate change on biodiversity helps to understand the risks from future climate change …
climate change on biodiversity helps to understand the risks from future climate change …
Pattern detection in bipartite networks: A review of terminology, applications, and methods
ZP Neal, A Cadieux, D Garlaschelli… - PLOS Complex …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Rectangular association matrices with binary (0/1) entries are a common data structure in
many research fields. Examples include ecology, economics, mathematics, physics …
many research fields. Examples include ecology, economics, mathematics, physics …
Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity
Aim The world's islands support disproportionate levels of endemic avian biodiversity
despite suffering numerous extinctions. While intensive recent research has focused on …
despite suffering numerous extinctions. While intensive recent research has focused on …
The compound topology of host–parasite networks is explained by the integrative hypothesis of specialization
What is the prevalent topology among interaction networks? How do consumers balance
between generalism and performance when exploiting different resources? These two long …
between generalism and performance when exploiting different resources? These two long …
PER‐SIMPER—A new tool for inferring community assembly processes from taxon occurrences
C Gibert, G Escarguel - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding how ecosystem functioning and evolution shape taxonomic
assemblages is a lively debate basically involving two major opposite views: the niche‐and …
assemblages is a lively debate basically involving two major opposite views: the niche‐and …
[HTML][HTML] Tillage intensity and herbicide application influence surface-active springtail (Collembola) communities in Romanian vineyards
Vineyards are important perennial, often intensively managed agroecosystems. In most
vineyards, ground vegetation is controlled by tillage and/or the application of broadband …
vineyards, ground vegetation is controlled by tillage and/or the application of broadband …
DNA metabarcoding, diversity partitioning and null models reveal mechanisms of seasonal trophic specialization in a Mediterranean warbler
Abstract Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) predicts that a population's trophic niche expansion
should occur in periods of food scarcity as individuals begin to opportunistically exploit sub …
should occur in periods of food scarcity as individuals begin to opportunistically exploit sub …
Assessing metacommunity processes through signatures in spatiotemporal turnover of community composition
Although metacommunity ecology has been a major field of research in the last decades,
with both conceptual and empirical outputs, the analysis of the temporal dynamics of …
with both conceptual and empirical outputs, the analysis of the temporal dynamics of …