All Outputs (9)

Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where? (2022)
Journal Article

Our world contains many ecosystems, from tropical forests to coral reefs to urban parks. Ecosystems help us in important ways, including cleaning our air and water, storing carbon, and producing food. People have been shaping most ecosystems for at l... Read More about Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where?.

Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics (2022)
Journal Article

Lianas (woody vines) are a key component of tropical forests, known to reduce forest carbon storage and sequestration and to be increasing in abundance. Analysing how and why lianas are distributed in forest canopies at landscape scales will help us... Read More about Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics.

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity (2022)
Journal Article

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblag... Read More about Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity.

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosai... Read More about A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire.

Biodiversity: The role of interaction diversity (2022)
Journal Article

Links between the diversity of ecological interactions and community structure have long been recognised but remain broadly understudied. A new study concludes that vertebrate trophic interaction diversity is nearly uncorrelated with either phylogene... Read More about Biodiversity: The role of interaction diversity.

Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands (2022)
Journal Article

Aim: Functional traits can help us to elucidate biogeographical and ecological processes driving assemblage structure. We analysed the functional diversity of plant species of different evolutionary origins across an island archipelago, along environ... Read More about Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands.

Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance (2022)
Journal Article

Oceanic islands are cradles of endemism, contributing substantially to global biodiversity. A similarity in magmatic origin translates into high global comparability of substrates of volcanic islands on the oceanic crust with, however, slightly chemi... Read More about Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance.

Making (remote) sense of lianas (2022)
Journal Article

Lianas (woody vines) are abundant and diverse, particularly in tropical ecosystems. Lianas use trees for structural support to reach the forest canopy, often putting leaves above their host tree. Thus they are major parts of many forest canopies. Yet... Read More about Making (remote) sense of lianas.

High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island (2022)
Journal Article

Questions: Both species turnover and intraspecific trait variation can affect plant assemblage dynamics along environmental gradients. Here, we asked how community assemblage patterns in relation to species turnover and intraspecific variation differ... Read More about High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island.