Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

This study shows invasive mammals threaten native dung beetle communities by increasing extinction risks for specialists and intensifying competition among generalists.

The paper models short- and long-term responses of grassland functional groups to precipitation extremes using stage-structured community models and pseudospectral theory.

The paper assesses root trait diversity in subtropical and tropical species, finding they contribute significantly to global root functional space and show niche-driven trait variation in subtropical but not tropical species.

This study compares arthropod diversity and abundance between two disturbed and less disturbed sites to assess their ecological impact on biological diversity.

This paper introduces the Extinction Potential Metric (EPM) to quantify the ecological impact of invasive alien species and demonstrates its application across multiple taxa.

The paper investigates the effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity loss at different spatial and temporal scales, finding that spatial configuration impacts biodiversity loss depending on measurement scale and species dispersal capacity.

This study shows that non-trophic effects of large herbivores on plant diversity increase over time, surpassing trophic effects after 23 years in a 46-year salt marsh experiment.

The paper examines how alpine-plant communities respond to warming and loss of dominant species, finding varied and often combined responses across different sites.

The paper describes a methodology to identify and analyze species associations using statistical distributions, illustrated with ecological data from the Volga River.

The paper introduces a method to assess cluster support in hierarchical analyses using a consensus topology and ecological concepts, and provides an R package for implementation.

The paper estimates recovery timescales for human-disturbed forests, finding significant differences from undisturbed forests after 150 years and projecting long-term differences for ecosystem attributes.

This study compares the long-term legacy effects of extreme heat and herbivory on plant communities, finding that extreme heat causes stochastic extinctions while large herbivores reduce population growth over generations.

This study examines how herbivore exclusion affects plant trait variation and ecological strategies in a semi-arid shrubland, revealing shifts in resource use and intraspecific diversity.

The paper models how consumer body size and habitat preference affect landscape-scale resource heterogeneity under global change.

This paper introduces a metric called FIRE to prioritize conservation of functionally irreplaceable species at risk of extinction by integrating trait data and extinction risk.

The paper examines phenotypic differentiation in three lineages of Cardamine hirsuta introduced to Japan, finding parallel clinal patterns related to climate factors.

This study examines how goldenrod invasion affects wet meadow vegetation composition, finding reduced species diversity and biomass, and altered native and exotic species richness.

This study shows that habitat isolation reduces the ability of self-organized pattern formation to increase local diversity in metacommunities by weakening eco-evo-spatial feedback loops.

This study examines the long-term impact of spruce plantations on plant diversity and environmental factors in the Como Prealps, finding a significant reduction in plant species and functional forms.

The study examines how individual species respond to tropical forest degradation, finding significant variation in responses across populations and surveys.

This paper calculates continuous extinction risk from historical IUCN Red List data, revealing that species attributes like taxonomy, body size, and habitat specialism influence risk beyond the current categorical assessments.

The paper examines how distributional shifts under climate change affect biodiversity-ecosystem stability relationships by analyzing over 25 years of species data.

The paper quantifies global latitudinal herbivory gradients for native and exotic plants, finding native plants show a decline with latitude while exotic plants do not, mediated by herbivore guilds and climate factors.

This study examines how local and landscape factors influence paddy field arthropod diversity, finding that environmental effects are highly species-specific and that species richness is more influenced by landscape factors than local ones.

This paper improves co-occurrence affinity estimation using Bayesian dyadic regression and presents a software package for ecological analysis.

This study examines how scale and centrality in lake networks affect planktonic community diversity and composition, finding varied responses across different planktonic groups.

The paper proposes Hierarchical Ordination as a framework to model species communities in space by extending Generalised Linear Latent Variable Models.

This study compares seed dispersal traits between two closely related plant subspecies with contrasting urban range expansions and contractions, finding differential responses to urbanisation.

The paper assesses how climate change affects tropical forest community persistence by analyzing plant-plant interaction networks and structural stability over 25 years.

The paper examines changes in rooftop green areas of a primary school in Beijing before and during the COVID-19 lockdown, focusing on invasive weed succession and its impact on cultivated plants.