Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

Climate change is driving a pervasive global redistribution of the planet's species. Species
redistribution poses new questions for the study of ecosystems, conservation science and …

Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss,. Alongside reductions in local
species diversity, biotic homogenization at larger spatial scales is of great concern for …

Aim Generalized dissimilarity modelling (GDM) is a powerful and unique method for
characterizing and predicting beta diversity, the change in biodiversity over space, time and …

Local adaptation is a central feature of most species occupying spatially heterogeneous
environments, and may factor critically in responses to environmental change. However …

It has been argued that globalization in human-mediated dispersal of species breaks down
biogeographic boundaries, yet empirical tests are still missing. We used data on native and …

Whether niche processes, like environmental filtering, or neutral processes, like dispersal
limitation, are the primary forces driving community assembly is a central question in …

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of statistical methods that
infer evolutionary and ecological processes from data on species distributions. These …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Urbanization is a major driver of land use change and biodiversity decline. While most of the
ongoing and future urbanization hotspots are located in the Global South, the impact of …