Understanding, modeling, and predicting the impact of global change on ecosystem
functioning across biogeographical gradients can benefit from enhanced capacity to …

Understanding how ecosystem functioning is impacted by global change drivers is a central
topic in ecology and conservation science. We need to assess not only how environmental …

Broad-scale geographic gradients in species richness have now been extensively
documented, but their historical underpinning is still not well understood. While the …

Aim We may be able to buffer biodiversity against the effects of ongoing climate change by
prioritizing the protection of habitat with diverse physical features (high geodiversity) …

The concept of the biome has a long history dating back to Carl Ludwig Willdenow and
Alexander von Humboldt. However, while the association between climate and the structure …

Functional traits and associated trait‐based concepts have driven rapid innovation in
ecology over recent years, with most progress based on insights from plants. However …

Biogeographic origins of plant lineages are often reflected in species functional traits, with
consequences for community assembly, diversity, and ecosystem function. The climatic and …

Classical biogeographical observations suggest that ecosystems are strongly shaped by
climatic constraints in terms of their structure and function. On the other hand, vegetation …

Trophic interactions among multiple species are ubiquitous in nature and their importance
for structuring ecological communities has been extensively demonstrated at local spatial …

A foundational paradigm in biological and Earth sciences is that our planet is divided into
distinct ecoregions and biomes demarking unique assemblages of species. This notion has …