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The New World blackbirds (Icteridae) are a widely distributed, ecologically diverse avian family whose biogeographic history remains poorly understood. Competing hypotheses have proposed Neotropical o...

Are rare species maintained by stronger NDD? A still-unresolved problem A central focus in ecology is identifying mechanisms that maintain species diversity, particularly the coexistence of rare an...

Biodiversity databases have expanded dramatically over the past two decades, turning scattered observations into vast digital repositories of species occurrence records. General-purpose infrastructure...

Mammals are crucial for sustaining ecosystem functions and services, yet their diversity is increasingly threatened in China’s arid and semi-arid regions because of environmental fragility and intensi...

Revisiting generality in the global latitudinal gradient in species richness across ocean and land (and the 20°C effect) Recent discoveries show that the global latitudinal gradient in marine spe...

Tropical dry forest is a biome characterized by prolonged dry seasons which harbors an exceptionally rich floristic biodiversity. Yet it is among the most threatened biomes and its belowground diversi...

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Calls to ban high seas fishing have long been justified on biodiversity, economic, equity, and carbon mitigation grounds. A new study reports that even under a low emission climate change scenario, ap...

Amazonian forest fires rarely, if ever, ignite and spread in the absence of humans. The first colonization of people into South America happened in the late Pleistocene, and by 10,000 years ago, human...

Climate change is reshaping biodiversity, yet it remains challenging to distinguish the respective influences of short-term weather variability and long-term climate trends, particularly with regard t...

Leposternon polystegum is a fossorial reptile endemic to Brazil, distributed across several biomes. However, the environmental and spatial factors that shape its distribution remain poorly understood....

Pollination by wild insects is vital for maintaining ecosystems and food security, but climate change is altering the biogeography of many pollinator species. While progress has been made in assessing...

Saproxylic Coleoptera are beetles that depend on, or contribute to, the decomposition of dead wood. They are often used as indicators of forest quality and attract substantial conservation interest. S...

Neotropical montane cloud forests are terrestrial ecosystems characterized by a consistent high humidity from clouds or mist. Geographically, these forests occur along the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the ...

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Biodiversity patterns in environmental space Ever since Aristotle suggested that the distributions of organisms were related to environmental factors and Humboldt travelled the world observing dra...

Habitat islands conceptually bridge true islands and habitat patches, adding new perspectives to island biogeographic principles that shape community assembly processes. Despite growing interest, empi...

Forests in eastern North American did not achieve a stable composition during the Holocene. Both prolonged and abrupt shifts in the distributions of tree species were common. Studying the dynamics inv...

The ruling climate conditions during the Last Interglacial, the Eemian (ca. 130–120 ky BP), were warmer and, consequently, the sea level stood 8–10 m higher than today. Ongoing human-induced climate c...

Wetlands are globally recognised as biodiversity refugia and critical climate regulators, yet they are increasingly threatened by human pressures. Although phytoplankton plays a foundational role in a...

Biogeographic patterns for marine fishes and scleractinian stony corals are well-established, but it is still unclear whether these patterns apply to the understudied marine invertebrates. Here we inv...

The small-island effect (SIE) describes a particular form of species–area relationship where species richness on small islands is independent of island area or relates to area in a different way than ...

Ecology & Evolution in Spatial Structured Environments Ecological and evolutionary dynamics occur in environments that are intrinsically spatially structured, yet spatial environmental heterogene...

Fishes of the Western Amazon exhibit the greatest diversity of any continental vertebrate fauna on Earth. Hypotheses to explain diversity patterns have focused on various ecological and evolutionary p...

Ecology & Evolution in Spatial Structured Environment Ecological and evolutionary dynamics occur in environments that are intrinsically spatially structured, yet spatial environmental heterogenei...