Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

Ecosystem restoration is one of the most promising strategies for conservation in the
Anthropocene. Within ecosystems, plant-animal interactions are critical to their functioning …

Species diversity of angiosperms (flowering plants) varies greatly among regions.
Geographic patterns of variation in species diversity are shaped by the interplay of …

An animal's daily use of time (their “diel activity”) reflects their adaptations, requirements,
and interactions, yet we know little about the underlying processes governing diel activity …

Land‐use change is the leading driver of global biodiversity loss thus characterising its
impacts on the functional structure of ecological communities is an urgent challenge. Using …

Aim What factors may affect species range sizes remains a central question in ecology and
biogeography. Particularly, whether and how species richness may regulate average …

The tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological distributions (phylogenetic niche
conservatism) is thought to influence which species from a species pool can persist in a …

Knowledge of relationships between phylogenetic structure of a biological assemblage and
ecological factors that drive the variation of phylogenetic structure among regions is crucial …

Despite that several studies have shown that data derived from species lists generated from
distribution occurrence records in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are not …

Understanding how non-trophic social systems respond to environmental gradients is still a
challenge in animal ecology, particularly in comparing changes in species composition to …