Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Accounting for the influence of dissimilarity gradientson community uniqueness

The paper introduces GDUM to better understand how environmental gradients influence community uniqueness in biodiversity studies.

Nutrient enrichment intensifies plant competitive effects, favouring monocultures: a global meta-analysis

This study shows nutrient enrichment intensifies competitive effects, favoring monocultures, and interacts with temperature to amplify competitive asymmetries in plant communities.

Community-level plant functional strategies explain ecosystem carbon storage across a tropical elevational gradient

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

Positive effects of landscape diversity on vegetation productivity at the kilometer scale

The paper investigates how landscape diversity affects vegetation productivity at the kilometer scale using satellite data and land cover analysis, finding a universal association between landscape diversity and productivity.

Modelling post-disturbance empirical patterns in a forest ecosystem

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

High density invasion by the shrub Ardisia crenata in Florida, USA is associated with altered soil chemical properties and microbial communities

The urban tree of life: synthesizing relationships between body size and urban affinity

The paper analyzes urban affinity across 30,000 species, finding that body size correlates with urban tolerance, but patterns vary across taxa and families.

Urbanisation is associated with habitat-specific richness loss and community turnover across an ecotone

The paper examines how urbanisation affects biodiversity in beach-dune ecotones, finding habitat-specific responses in community composition, richness, and turnover.

Applying a classification approach to categorizing urbanized landscapes in California and their invasion by the Maltese starthistle Centaurea melitensis

The paper develops a multivariate landscape classification framework to categorize urbanized landscapes in California and assesses how environmental zones influence trait variation in the invasive plant Maltese starthistle.

Forest vertical and horizontal temperature similarity drives arthropod communities in a managed temperate forest

The paper examines how vertical and horizontal temperature differences in a managed forest influence arthropod communities using temperature loggers and metabarcoding.

Microclimatic heterogeneity is associated with forest structural complexity and biodiversity

The paper quantifies microclimatic heterogeneity in forests and links it to biodiversity, showing that canopy structure and gaps influence temperature variation and species diversity.

Biodiversity modulates the cross-community scaling relationship in changing environments

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

Old growth attributes by chain saw: how between-patch heterogeneity changes the metacommunities of beetles in temperate forests

The paper experiments with structural heterogeneity in forests to determine its impact on beetle metacommunities, finding increased species diversity and support for mass-effect and species-sorting processes.

Temperate forest heterogeneity decreases local and landscape-scale spider diversity through habitat filtering despite species turnover

This study shows that increasing forest structural complexity reduces spider diversity through habitat filtering, despite higher abundances and beta-diversity.

Reintroductions backfire by destabilising food webs and triggering further extinction cascades

This study shows reintroductions can destabilize food webs and trigger extinction cascades, often undetected because success is measured only by reintroduced species survival.

Adaptive Strategies of the invasive aquatic plant, Ludwigia grandiflora subps. hexapetala: Contrasting Plasticity Between Aquatic and Terrestrial Morphotypes.

This study compares phenotypic plasticity between aquatic and terrestrial morphotypes of Ludwigia grandiflora subsp. hexapetala under different environmental conditions.

Formalizing biodiversity measures and guiding through them

The paper analyzes biodiversity indices, identifies issues with existing ones, and proposes minimal conditions and parametric guiding indices to improve their application in ecology.

Loss of characteristic species across German federal states detected by repeated mapping of protected habitats

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

Nutrient niche differentiation among European herbaceous species reflects an extinction to invasion continuum

The paper shows that threatened and invasive plant species in Europe occupy opposing nutrient niches, suggesting nutrient regime shifts drive species replacement rather than direct displacement.

A continuum of information-based temporal stability measures and their decomposition across hierarchical levels

The paper introduces a continuum of information-based temporal stability measures parameterized by q, applicable to ecological time series data, and demonstrates their use with biomass data from the Jena Experiment.

Dynamic connectivities of plant metacommunities at a millennial time-scale: the Beringia testbed

The paper examines millennial-scale changes in plant metacommunity connectivity in Beringia using sedimentary DNA from lake cores, revealing shifts driven by climate and landscape changes.

Defensive mutualisms affect plant and ant island biogeography at a global scale

The paper examines whether defensive ant-plant mutualisms mediated by extrafloral nectaries affect island biogeography, finding that these mutualisms do not limit colonization and may strengthen the latitudinal diversity gradient.

Phylogenetic Diversity Across the Complete Tree of Life

The paper estimates Phylogenetic Diversity (PD) across the complete tree of life using 2.2 million species and calculates Evolutionary Distinctiveness and EDGE scores for over 130,000 species.

Dispersal kernels influence the magnitude of environmental, biotic, and stochastic effects on the maintenance of metacommunity diversity

The paper investigates how dispersal kernels affect metacommunity diversity by simulating their impact on environmental, biotic, and stochastic factors.

Trait Convergence Dominates Community Assembly Across Contrasting Himalayan Habitats: Integrating Above- and Belowground Strategies With Phylogenetic Structure

The paper analyzes community assembly in Himalayan habitats, finding that environmental filtering dominates but is often modulated by niche differentiation, using trait and phylogenetic data.

Land-use intensity effects on the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in semi-natural grasslands at management-relevant spatial scales

The paper examines how land-use intensity affects the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in semi-natural grasslands at field and farm scales, finding that high intensity weakens the BEF relationship.

Shape and rate of landscape change trajectories influence species persistence

This study shows that species persistence in changing landscapes depends on historical habitat trajectories and the rate of landscape change, not just current conditions.

Functional coexistence theory: a mechanistic framework linking biodiversity to ecosystem function

The paper develops a theoretical framework linking species coexistence to ecosystem function by identifying three components that determine community function.

Zero-inflated Joint Species Distribution Models for improved partial-correlation network inference from community data

This paper introduces a zero-inflated JSDM model to improve partial-correlation network inference from community data by accounting for structural zeros.

Selection strengthens the relationship between plant diversity and the metabolic profile of Plantago lanceolata

This study shows that plant diversity affects the metabolome of Plantago lanceolata through both plastic and adaptive responses, with soil history enhancing these effects.