Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

The paper demonstrates how relaxing homoscedasticity assumptions and using cross-validation improves ecological evidence synthesis by better quantifying transferability of effects across contexts.

The paper uses HMSC models to quantify the impact of phenotypic evolution on metacommunity composition and applies them to an aquatic plant dataset.

The paper models how landscape fragmentation affects carrying capacity based on species' home-range sizes and habitat quality thresholds.

This study systematically reviews enemy release in introduced species across taxa and approaches, finding reduced enemy pressure in introduced ranges but mixed results in community contrasts.

The paper assesses how land-use changes affect diurnal butterfly diversity in subtropical montane forests, finding increased dominance of open-area species and reduced forest-dependent species.

This study evaluates how open research data and community science data can improve tracking of invasive species in Japan, finding complementary strengths and limitations between the two data sources.

This study shows that enhancing structural heterogeneity in forests increases hoverfly diversity, with benefits for taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity.

The paper examines how intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability change with tree species richness and their impact on community functional diversity.

The paper examines how disturbance interacts with dispersal and niche breadth to influence scale-dependent diversity changes in metacommunities.

The study examines how light and water conditions affect plantlet production and vegetative growth in four Kalanchoe species, revealing differences in reproductive strategies that may aid their invasive spread.

The paper introduces VegVault, a database integrating paleo- and neo-vegetation data with functional traits and abiotic drivers to support ecological research on biodiversity patterns.

The paper uses mechanistic population models to show how density dependence promotes species coexistence and explains productivity-diversity relationships.

The paper develops a statistical method to correct global biodiversity indicators by accounting for hard-to-sample species, finding they decline more with land-use intensity.

Across 1281 bird assemblages and 3696 species, land-use change lowers functional redundancy and resistance to simulated extinctions despite lower vulnerability, hitting frugivores and invertivores hardest.

The paper tests if dominant graminoids limit forb recruitment in tundra grasslands by removing them and observing increased forb recruitment.

This paper develops a theoretical framework to explore how microbial interactions influence biological invasions, identifying pathways through which microbes can facilitate or hinder invasion dynamics.

The paper uses a mechanistic consumer-resource model to predict phytoplankton community composition across resource conditions and species richness, finding that competition for essential resources reduces diversity.

The paper assesses the impact of human pressure on biodiversity in the UK using airborne environmental DNA, revealing complex patterns in diversity and community composition across taxa.

This study shows that recurrent drought increases seasonal synchrony in grassland plant communities by reducing species richness and altering functional groups, making ecosystems more vulnerable to future disturbances.

This study shows that varying species interactions based on neighbor density improves ecological predictions and promotes coexistence and oscillation in communities.

The paper examines how functional and phylogenetic dissimilarity affect exotic plant invasion success at different spatial scales, finding support for pre-adaptation at the site scale and limiting similarity at the neighbourhood scale.

This study shows response diversity drives community stability in food webs, with food web structure playing a secondary role.

This study shows that chronic disturbance in tropical forests favors deciduous over evergreen tree communities, especially under water stress, in the Western Ghats.

The paper compares trait values of shared species between Northwestern Europe and the Pannonian Ecoregion, finding significant differences in four traits, highlighting the importance of regional data sources.

The paper examines long-term changes in plant community composition and diversity in Fennoscandian heathlands and tundra, finding increased homogenization linked to the expansion of Empetrum nigrum.

This study examines how long-term weather variations affect the demographic dynamics of Cirsium undulatum, showing resilience to increased drought under climate change.

The paper examines how community-level plant functional strategies influence carbon storage across an elevational gradient, finding two key strategies linked to carbon stocks.

The paper models how forest ecosystems recover from disturbances using two community dynamics frameworks, finding that non-neutral interactions better capture community structure.

The paper tests how temperature and biodiversity affect the size-abundance relationship in protist communities, finding context-dependent shifts in the scaling slope.

The paper analyzes species trends across German federal states using habitat mapping data to identify biodiversity changes in different habitat types.