Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead

M Dornelas, JM Chase, NJ Gotelli… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in the context of widespread human
modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how biodiversity has changed in recent …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change

KG Lyons, P Török, JM Hermann, K Kiehl… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Grasslands are ubiquitous globally, and their conservation and restoration are critical to
combat both the biodiversity and climate crises. There is increasing interest in implementing …

[HTML][HTML] Insect decline in forests depends on species' traits and may be mitigated by management

M Staab, MM Gossner, NK Simons, R Achury… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Insects are declining, but the underlying drivers and differences in responses between
species are still largely unclear. Despite the importance of forests, insect trends therein have …

The undetectability of global biodiversity trends using local species richness

JW Valdez, CT Callaghan, J Junker, A Purvis… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although species are being lost at alarming rates, previous research has provided
conflicting results on the extent and even direction of global biodiversity change at the local …

Biodiversity loss and climate extremes—study the feedbacks

MD Mahecha, A Bastos, FJ Bohn, N Eisenhauer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
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[HTML][HTML] Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series

WB Xu, SA Blowes, V Brambilla, CFY Chow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While human activities are known to elicit rapid turnover in species composition through
time, the properties of the species that increase or decrease their spatial occupancy …

Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory

Herbivory Variability Network*†, ML Robinson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Interactions between plants and herbivores are central in most ecosystems, but their
strength is highly variable. The amount of variability within a system is thought to influence …

Prioritize grassland restoration to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

IR Staude, J Segar, VM Temperton… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In times of unprecedented climate change, ecological restoration efforts have a strong focus
on forests for the purpose of carbon sequestration. Grasslands, in contrast, remain relatively …

Biodiversity change in light of succession theory

IR Staude, A Weigelt, C Wirth - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is rapidly changing in the Anthropocene, but not all directional changes
observed in biodiversity time series are anthropogenic. We discuss key research findings in …

Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition

J Padullés Cubino, J Lenoir, D Li… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Global change has accelerated local species extinctions and colonizations, often resulting in
losses and gains of evolutionary lineages with unique features. Do these losses and gains …