Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

The paper shows that demographic compensation in alpine grassland species buffers population decline under heavy grazing, supporting the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis at the population level.

The paper assesses how plant functional traits interact with regional threats to predict extinction risk, finding smaller herbaceous species are more vulnerable and some threats reduce extinction risk.

The paper quantifies how forest degradation affects trophic functioning in Amazonian vertebrate food webs, showing shifts in carnivory and herbivory despite stable biodiversity metrics.

This study uses a metacommunity model to assess how temporal variability affects biodiversity maintenance in rainfed agroecosystems, finding that its effects depend on multiple factors.

The paper shows that small representative samples of plant species can accurately capture global vascular plant diversity patterns at the country scale.

This study introduces climate percolation as a new metric to analyze climate geography's impact on vertebrate richness, showing it outperforms climate isolation in predicting species diversity.

The paper examines spatial turnover in a hyperdiverse food web, finding that turnover increases with trophic level, particularly affecting parasitoids.

The paper forecasts regional arrivals of non-native vertebrates using species traits and spread history, finding high accuracy and identifying high-risk species.

The paper examines how climate change and biotic interactions affect plant population dynamics through a field experiment and modeling, finding species-specific responses and amplification of climate effects by antagonists.

This study quantifies fundamental and realized niches across 29 shrub species to reveal multi-scale mechanisms of coexistence and climate change impacts.

The paper uses community science data to show that larger parks and greater city-wide tree cover increase butterfly diversity across U.S. cities.

This study shows that fine-scale habitat features in urban parks, not just green cover, are critical for supporting ant biodiversity and highlights design strategies to enhance urban biodiversity.

The paper develops a Bayesian model to analyze growth form partitioning along a Himalayan gradient, finding that fog-frost interactions are more influential than altitude in shaping vegetation patterns.

This study examines how experimental drought affects a wildflower's population growth by analyzing flowering phenology and demographic data over multiple years.

This study shows that species traits, not response diversity, consistently predict community stability under temperature disturbances in marine phytoplankton.

The paper analyzes multiscale spatial patterns of macrophyte richness and water quality in Swedish lakes using WFD data, showing scale-specific relationships and the importance of accounting for spatial confounding.

The paper uses METE to analyze Hawaiian arthropod communities and finds deviations from steady state during active diversification, linked to beta-diversity peaks and invasion dynamics.

The paper shows response diversity inconsistently predicts functional robustness to simulated zooplankton extinctions, depending on environmental variables and metrics used.

This study uses model food webs to show that habitat restoration affects species recolonization based on dispersal ability, proximity to source patches, and landscape connectivity.

This study shows that landscape connectivity reduces temporal variability in plant communities over 24 years, with edge effects and dispersal mode influencing community composition.

The paper tests how response diversity affects ecological stability in macrophyte communities, finding that response imbalance predicts resistance to disturbance, but not temporal stability.

The paper shows that historical disturbance regimes leave lasting effects on microbial community composition and function, influencing responses to new disturbances and invasions.

This study uses predictive metabolomics to link plant biochemical diversity with ecological strategies and physiological traits across 74 species.

The paper shows that plant growth forms influence biodiversity patterns on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and prioritizing trees and climbers can effectively capture most diversity with minimal area.

This study uses spatial prioritization to compare current and future threats of invasive barred owls on native species, finding that prioritizing future threats can better protect at-risk communities but may face implementation challenges.

This paper presents a general framework explaining variation in plant economics traits across environments and ontogeny through three core assumptions about growth optimization and tradeoffs.

The paper develops a demographic framework to assess population vulnerability to different perturbation types and shows adult survival perturbations have the strongest impact, with vulnerability increasing in slower life histories.

The paper tests the bioark hypothesis in Atlanta by analyzing ant communities, finding that invasive species, not habitat structure, drive native diversity loss in urban areas.

The paper shows that trait dissimilarity-based tree species loss affects how tree diversity influences herbivory and pathogen infestation, with functional diversity playing a key role.

The paper examines how community-climate disequilibrium affects net primary productivity in rangeland ecosystems, finding that mismatched communities are less productive.