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

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure (2021)
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Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for... Read More about Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure.

Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma (2021)
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Forest fires are drivers of spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of vegetation and biodiversity. On the Canary Islands, large areas of pine forest exist, dominated by the endemic Canary Island pine, Pinus canariensis C. Sm. These mostly natural for... Read More about Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma.

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021)
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Motivation: Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species c... Read More about sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots.

Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases (2021)
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Aim: Trait?based approaches are increasingly important in ecology and biogeography, but progress is often hampered by the availability of high?quality quantitative trait data collected in the field. Alternative sources of trait information include... Read More about Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases.

Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales (2021)
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Aim: Plant functional traits summarize the main variability in plant form and function across taxa and biomes. We assess whether geographic range size, climatic niche size, and local abundance of plants can be predicted by sets of traits (trait syndr... Read More about Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales.

The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide (2021)
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Aim: This work explores whether the commonly observed positive range size–niche breadth relationship exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread broad-leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Additio... Read More about The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide.

Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient (2021)
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Positive plant-plant interactions are thought to drive vegetation patterns in harsh environments, such as semi-arid areas. According to the stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH), the role of positive interactions between species (facilitation) is expected... Read More about Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient.

Assessing the potential replacement of laurel forest by a novel ecosystem in the steep terrain of an Oceanic Island (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. T. Biological invasions are a major global threat to biodiversity and often affect ecosystem services negatively. They are particularly problematic on oceanic islands where there are many narr... Read More about Assessing the potential replacement of laurel forest by a novel ecosystem in the steep terrain of an Oceanic Island.

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true isl... Read More about Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism.

A grid-based map for the biogeographical regions of Europe (2020)
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© Pensoft Publishers. Background Biogeographical units are widely adopted in ecological research and nature conservation management, even though biogeographical regionalisation is still under scientific debate. The European Environment Agency provide... Read More about A grid-based map for the biogeographical regions of Europe.

Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a key issue in evolutionary biology, ecology, and biogeography. Evolutionary rates are the net res... Read More about Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis.

Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores? (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Despite the global implementation of rock-rubble groyne structures, there is limited research investigating their ecology, much less than for other artificial coastal structures. Here we compare the intertidal ecology of urban... Read More about Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores?.

The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands (2019)
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Topography influences evolutionary and ecological processes by isolating populations and by enhancing habitat diversity. While the effects of large-scale topography on patterns of species richness and endemism are increasingly well documented, the di... Read More about The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands.

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Alien plant species can cause severe ecological and economic problems, and therefore attract a lot of research interest in biogeography and related fields.... Read More about Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges.

Extinction risk and conservation gaps for Aloe (Asphodelaceae) in the Horn of Africa (2019)
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Identification of conservation priorities is essential for conservation planning, especially as the biodiversity crisis develops. We aimed to support conservation prioritisation by addressing knowledge gaps for the genus Aloe in the Horn of Africa. S... Read More about Extinction risk and conservation gaps for Aloe (Asphodelaceae) in the Horn of Africa.

Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity (2019)
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Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt? (2019)
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Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most influential scientist of his day. Although his fame has since lessened relative to some of his contemporaries, we argue that his influence remains strong-mainly because his approach to science inspired oth... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?.

Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants (2019)
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Endemics–Area Relationships (EARs) are fundamental in theoretical and applied biogeography for understanding distribution patterns and promoting biodiversity conservation. However, calculating EARs for vascular plant species from existing data is pro... Read More about Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants.

Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing (2019)
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Despite its recognition as an important global resource for conservation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species only provides assessments of extinction risk for a small and biased subset of known b... Read More about Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing.