Embracing scale‐dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

JM Chase, BJ McGill, DJ McGlinn, F May… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Because biodiversity is multidimensional and scale‐dependent, it is challenging to estimate
its change. However, it is unclear (1) how much scale‐dependence matters for empirical …

Scale‐dependent effect sizes of ecological drivers on biodiversity: why standardised sampling is not enough

JM Chase, TM Knight - Ecology letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is little consensus about how natural (eg productivity, disturbance) and anthropogenic
(eg invasive species, habitat destruction) ecological drivers influence biodiversity. Here, we …

Soil fungal diversity in natural grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with plant diversity and productivity

T Yang, JM Adams, Y Shi, J He, X Jing, L Chen… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have revealed inconsistent correlations between fungal diversity and plant
diversity from local to global scales, and there is a lack of information about the diversity …

[图书][B] Vegetation description and data analysis: a practical approach

M Kent - 2011 - books.google.com
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A PracticalApproach, Second Edition is a fully
revised and up-datededition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advancesin …

[图书][B] Maximum entropy and ecology: a theory of abundance, distribution, and energetics

J Harte - 2011 - books.google.com
This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools
required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of …

The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology

L Estes, PR Elsen, T Treuer, L Ahmed… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
To understand ecological phenomena, it is necessary to observe their behaviour across
multiple spatial and temporal scales. Since this need was first highlighted in the 1980s …

Integrating citizen science data with expert surveys increases accuracy and spatial extent of species distribution models

OJ Robinson, V Ruiz‐Gutierrez… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Information on species' habitat associations and distributions, across a wide range of
spatial and temporal scales, is a fundamental source of ecological knowledge. However …

Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions

JM Cohen, DJ Civitello, AJ Brace… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Humans are altering the distribution of species by changing the climate and disrupting biotic
interactions and dispersal. A fundamental hypothesis in spatial ecology suggests that these …

Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?

AK Knapp, KV Condon, CC Folks… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We review results from field experiments that simulate drought, an ecologically impactful
global change threat that is predicted to increase in magnitude, extent, duration and …

Scale gaps in landscape phenology: challenges and opportunities

DS Park, EA Newman, IK Breckheimer - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Phenology, or the timing of life history events, can be heterogeneous across biological
communities and landscapes and can vary across a wide variety of spatiotemporal scales …