Island biogeography: taking the long view of nature's laboratories

RJ Whittaker, JM Fernández-Palacios, TJ Matthews… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Ever since Darwin, natural scientists have turned to islands for inspiration
and for model systems. For the past half century, they have done so largely within the …

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

SC Elmendorf, GHR Henry, RD Hollister… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) Abstract Understanding the sensitivity of tundra vegetation to climate
warming is critical to forecasting future biodiversity and vegetation feedbacks to climate. In …

Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia

IG Alsos, DP Rijal, D Ehrich, DN Karger, NG Yoccoz… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
What drives ecosystem buildup, diversity, and stability? We assess species arrival and
ecosystem changes across 16 millennia by combining regional-scale plant sedimentary …

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

IH Myers-Smith, BC Forbes, M Wilmking… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent research using repeat photography, long-term ecological monitoring and
dendrochronology has documented shrub expansion in arctic, high-latitude and alpine …

Achieving climate connectivity in a fragmented landscape

JL McGuire, JJ Lawler, BH McRae… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The contiguous United States contains a disconnected patchwork of natural lands. This
fragmentation by human activities limits species' ability to track suitable climates as they …

Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

RG Pearson, SJ Phillips, MM Loranty, PSA Beck… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Climate warming has led to changes in the composition, density and distribution of Arctic
vegetation in recent decades,,,. These changes cause multiple opposing feedbacks …

Something in the way you move: dispersal pathways affect invasion success

JRU Wilson, EE Dormontt, PJ Prentis, AJ Lowe… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Biological invasions are caused by human-mediated extra-range dispersal and, unlike
natural extra-range dispersal, are often the result of multiple introductions from multiple …

[图书][B] Invasion biology

MA Davis - 2009 - books.google.com
With the exception of climate change, biological invasions have probably received more
attention during the past ten years than any other ecological topic. Yet this is the first …

Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after

MJ Hickerson, BC Carstens, J Cavender-Bares… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2010 - Elsevier
Approximately 20 years ago, Avise and colleagues proposed the integration of
phylogenetics and population genetics for investigating the connection between micro-and …

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

MD Crisp, MTK Arroyo, LG Cook, MA Gandolfo… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
How and why organisms are distributed as they are has long intrigued evolutionary
biologists,,,. The tendency for species to retain their ancestral ecology has been …