Environmental DNA illuminates the dark diversity of sharks

G Boussarie, J Bakker, OS Wangensteen, S Mariani… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
In the era of “Anthropocene defaunation,” large species are often no longer detected in
habitats where they formerly occurred. However, it is unclear whether this apparent missing …

sPlot–A new tool for global vegetation analyses

H Bruelheide, J Dengler… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance
of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across …

Benefits of mycorrhizal inoculation to ecological restoration depend on plant functional type, restoration context and time

L Neuenkamp, SM Prober, JN Price, M Zobel… - Fungal Ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
Mycorrhizal inoculation can enhance outcomes of ecological restoration, but the benefits
may be context-dependent. Here, we performed a meta-analysis of field studies to elucidate …

Why are some plant species missing from restorations? A diagnostic tool for temperate grassland ecosystems

M De Vitis, K Havens, RS Barak… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to accelerate actions to prevent, halt, and
reverse the degradation of ecosystems, and re-establish ecosystem functioning and species …

Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

C Penone, E Allan, S Soliveres… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While forest management strongly influences biodiversity, it remains unclear how the
structural and compositional changes caused by management affect different community …

Citizen science provides valuable data to evaluate elasmobranch diversity and trends throughout the French Polynesia's shark sanctuary

C Séguigne, J Mourier, É Clua, N Buray, S Planes - PloS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Observers of the Polynesian Shark Observatory (ORP), a citizen science network organized
mainly through the Polynesian dive centers, collected an unprecedented amount of data …

Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data

CP Carmona, M Pärtel - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The species pool specific for a site includes all species from the region that are
theoretically able to live in the site's particular ecological conditions. The absent portion of …

Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European …

M Sporbert, P Keil, G Seidler… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A fundamental question in macroecology centres around understanding the relationship
between species' local abundance and their distribution in geographical and climatic space …

Light detection and ranging explains diversity of plants, fungi, lichens, and bryophytes across multiple habitats and large geographic extent

JE Moeslund, A Zlinszky, R Ejrnæs… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Effective planning and nature management require spatially accurate and comprehensive
measures of the factors important for biodiversity. Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) can …

Decomposing dark diversity affinities of species and sites using Bayesian method: What accounts for absences of species at suitable sites?

J Fujinuma, M Pärtel - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Locally observed biodiversity always consists of only a fraction of its site‐specific species
pool. Why some suitable species are absent, shaping dark diversity of that site, is a basic yet …