landscapemetrics: an open‐source R tool to calculate landscape metrics

MHK Hesselbarth, M Sciaini, KA With, K Wiegand… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying landscape characteristics and linking them to ecological processes is one of the
central goals of landscape ecology. Landscape metrics are a widely used tool for the …

Residual spatial autocorrelation in macroecological and biogeographical modeling: a review

G Gaspard, D Kim, Y Chun - Journal of Ecology and Environment, 2019 - Springer
Macroecologists and biogeographers continue to predict the distribution of species across
space based on the relationship between biotic processes and environmental variables …

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

I Biurrun, R Pielech, I Dembicz, F Gillet… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Understanding fine‐grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental
for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database …

[HTML][HTML] Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants

C Hobohm, M Janišová, M Steinbauer, S Landi… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Endemics–Area Relationships (EARs) are fundamental in theoretical and applied
biogeography for understanding distribution patterns and promoting biodiversity …

The theory of the nested species–area relationship: geometric foundations of biodiversity scaling

D Storch - Journal of Vegetation Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between sampled area and the number of species within that area, the
species–area relationship (SAR), is a major biodiversity pattern and one of a few law‐like …

Comparing ultra‐high spatial resolution remote‐sensing methods in mapping peatland vegetation

A Räsänen, S Juutinen, ES Tuittila… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Questions How to map floristic variation in a patterned fen in an ecologically meaningfully
way? Can plant communities be delineated with species data generalized into plant …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing sampling effort and information content of biodiversity surveys: a case study of alpine grassland

S Hoffmann, L Steiner, AH Schweiger, A Chiarucci… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aims Current rates of biodiversity loss do not allow for inefficient monitoring. Optimized
monitoring maximizes the ratio between information and sampling effort (ie, time and costs) …

Species-abundance distribution patterns of plant communities in the Gurbantünggüt desert, China

Z Zang, Y Zeng, D Wang, F Shi, Y Dong, N Liu, Y Liang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is important to study the species-abundance distribution pattern in a community to reveal
the mechanism of community assembly. Six abundance models (log-normal distribution …

Species composition, richness, and diversity of weed communities of winter arable land in relation to geo-environmental factors: A gradient analysis in mainland Italy

E Fanfarillo, S Petit, F Dessaint, L Rosati, G Abbate - Botany, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The interest in knowledge of the weed communities of arable land is growing worldwide.
Italy is one of the countries in Europe that is the most biodiverse, geographically and …

Is it sufficient? Assessment of two sampling methods for urban plant species richness investigations

J Zhao, J Chen, C Chen, S Lu, C Song, S Liu… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining adequate sample size (ASS) and minimum plot size (MPS) are two
fundamental issues in urban vegetation investigations. To estimate the ASS and MPS of …