Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the
consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and …

Elton's biotic resistance hypothesis posits that species-rich communities are more resistant
to invasion. However, it remains unknown how species, phylogenetic and functional …

Biotic homogenization is a process whereby species assemblages become more similar
through time. The standard way of identifying the process of biotic homogenization is to look …

Recently, studies have shown that highly urbanized areas are numerically dominated by
birds with grey plumage, probably favoring camouflage with impervious grey surfaces …

Motivation Human activities have been reshaping the natural world for tens of thousands of
years, leading to the extinction of hundreds of bird species. Past research has provided …

Understanding the determinants of biodiversity in fragmented habitats is fundamental for
informing sustainable landscape development, especially in urban landscapes that …

Aim Island biological communities are considered to comprise non‐random assemblages
from surrounding source pools, but whether they converge towards predictable structural …

The species-area relationship (SAR) is a well-established, globally recognized ecological
pattern, and research on SAR has expanded to include the phylogenetic diversity-area …

The increase of size and connectivity of forest fragments positively affect bird species
number. Here we investigated if variations in the topography, which create valley bottoms …

Islands are arenas for a range of striking evolutionary phenomena, including the island rule—
the tendency for larger animals to shrink and smaller animals to enlarge. A new study of …