Protecting biodiversity (in all its complexity): new models and methods

LJ Pollock, LMJ O'connor, K Mokany… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
We are facing a biodiversity crisis at the same time as we are acquiring an unprecedented
view of the world's biodiversity. Vast new datasets (eg, species distributions, traits …

Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts

BI Simmons, PSA Blyth, JL Blanchard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

[HTML][HTML] A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity

M Roswell, J Dushoff, R Winfree - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Three metrics of species diversity–species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson
index–are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid critiques leveled against …

Dynamics of ecological communities following current retreat of glaciers

GF Ficetola, S Marta, A Guerrieri… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Glaciers are retreating globally, and the resulting ice-free areas provide an experimental
system for understanding species colonization patterns, community formation, and …

Advancing biological invasion hypothesis testing using functional diversity indices

D Renault, MCM Hess, J Braschi, RN Cuthbert… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pioneering investigations on the effects of introduced populations on community structure,
ecosystem functioning and services have focused on the effects of invaders on taxonomic …

Overcoming the pitfalls of merging dietary metabarcoding into ecological networks

JP Cuff, FM Windsor, MPTG Tercel… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The construction of increasingly detailed species interaction networks is extending the
potential applications of network ecology, providing an opportunity to understand complex …

The diversity of biotic interactions complements functional and phylogenetic facets of biodiversity

P Gaüzère, L O'connor, C Botella, G Poggiato… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversities are important facets of biodiversity.
Studying them together has improved our understanding of community dynamics, ecosystem …

The economics of biodiversity loss

S Giglio, T Kuchler, J Stroebel, O Wang - 2024 - nber.org
We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded
model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal trajectories of plant-pollinator interaction networks differ following phenological mismatches along an urbanization gradient

A Fisogni, N Hautekèete, Y Piquot, M Brun… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization may significantly alter the abundance, composition and phenology of natural
communities of plants and pollinators. However, how such alterations eventually affect the …

[PDF][PDF] Using bipartite to describe and plot two-mode networks in R

CF Dormann - R package version, 2020 - cloud.r-project.org
Using bipartite to describe and plot two-mode networks in R Page 1 Using bipartite to describe
and plot two-mode networks in R Carsten F. Dormann Biometry & Environmental System …