Competitive size-asymmetry, not intensity, is linked to species loss and gain in a native grassland community.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3675
Abstract: Competition is often highlighted as a major force influencing plant species diversity. However, there are multiple facets of competition (e.g., strength, intransitivity, and size-asymmetry) that may have independent and differential impacts on diversity, making understanding… read more here.
Keywords: competitive size; loss; size asymmetry; size ... See more keywords
Maintenance of community function through compensation breaks down over time in a desert rodent community.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3709
Abstract: Understanding the ecological processes that maintain community function in systems experiencing species loss, and how these processes change over time, is key to understanding the relationship between community structure and function and predicting how communities… read more here.
Keywords: time; species loss; function; community function ... See more keywords
Are redundancy indices redundant? An evaluation based on parameterized simulations
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106488
Abstract: Abstract Functional redundancy is considered a major component of the insurance mechanism, which theoretically maintains ecosystem stability by preventing the loss of ecosystem functions with species loss. Over the past decades, examination of functional trait… read more here.
Keywords: community; species loss; redundancy indices; structure ... See more keywords
Assessing the roles of nitrogen, biomass, and niche dimensionality as drivers of species loss in grassland communities
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112010119
Abstract: Significance Nutrient enrichment of natural ecosystems is a primary characteristic of the Anthropocene and a known cause of biodiversity loss, particularly in grasslands. In a global meta-analysis of 630 resource addition experiments, we conduct a… read more here.
Keywords: species loss; roles nitrogen; loss; assessing roles ... See more keywords
Infrastructure, Institutions, and the Conservation of Biodiversity in India
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DOI: 10.1086/735284
Abstract: Anthropogenic land use change is the leading threat to biodiversity. This paper studies how infrastructure expansion degrades biodiversity and the role of local institutions in mitigating species loss. Combining new data from India on infrastructure-driven… read more here.
Keywords: india; biodiversity; infrastructure institutions; india infrastructure ... See more keywords
Experimental warming drives local grassland plant species loss
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DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.70172
Abstract: Climate change poses a growing threat to many ecosystems, including grasslands, which are a current priority for conservation due to their vulnerability to interacting threats from human activity. North American grasslands are expected to experience… read more here.
Keywords: species loss; plant species; grassland plant; grassland ... See more keywords
Species–area relationships and biodiversity loss in fragmented landscapes
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DOI: 10.1111/ele.12943
Abstract: Abstract To estimate species loss from habitat destruction, ecologists typically use species–area relationships, but this approach neglects the spatial pattern of habitat fragmentation. Here, we provide new, easily applied, analytical methods that place upper and… read more here.
Keywords: area relationships; species area; relationships biodiversity; species loss ... See more keywords
Differential Mechanisms Drive Species Loss Under Artificial Shade and Fertilization in the Alpine Meadow of the Tibetan Plateau
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DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.832473
Abstract: Fertilization is an effective management strategy to promote community biomass but can simultaneously reduce species diversity in many grassland systems. Shifts in competition for resources have been proposed to explain the decline in plant species… read more here.
Keywords: fertilization; artificial shade; species diversity; species loss ... See more keywords