… Our results reveal that local trends of abundance, richness … demonstrating that biodiversity
changes at local scale are often … are part of the global ILTER network and the vast majority are …

… biodiversity changes, and along with other drivers of global change, mark the dawn of the
current global biodiversity … current trajectory of biodiversity and the remedial actions needed. …

… stems from local-scale manipulations of biodiversity and the … the net effect of changes in
plant diversity on the global carbon … the potential magnitude of biodiversity changes to alter the …

… of grazing exclusion were revealed only when aridity and … They found that aboveground
net primary productivity (ANPP)… to devise local-scale grazing strategies for maintaining plant …

… However, individual field studies of local-scale drivers … scale dependence, in both meta-analysis
of study-level summary … We go on to seek empirical evidence of the issues revealed by …

… Our meta-analysis shows that the effects of warming on biodiversity are scale dependent. …
to a systematic loss of species at the local scale, our results support the notion that warming …

… Here we asked whether analysing changes in the cover of plant species could reveal … ,
local-scale studies—that is, those at the level of communities—do not always reflect this global …

… meta-analysis on the evidence of more general biodiversity-… It has been proposed that
at the local scale, interspecies … For all meta-analysis models we analysed the sensitivity of …

… structural contrast at a local scale, and the agricultural … variation in the change in species
richness across South America. Commercial tree plantations are expanding around the world …

… ) can diminish over time at the local scale (Leuzinger et al., … microbial communities and plant
biodiversity. Further studies … whose data were used in this meta-analysis. We are grateful to …