Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

This study compares alpine biodiversity patterns for plants and vertebrates across mountains worldwide using an expert-validated dataset. Authors found strong variation among mountains and taxonomic g...

Biologists Bjorn Robroek and Patrick Weigelt of Radboud University have received a Comenius Senior Fellowship grant of 100,000 euros from the National Knowledge Institute for Education and NWO for the...

Recent advances in sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) are transforming palaeoecological research and offer new opportunities to study biodiversity change on islands. We assess the potential of sedaDNA ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

This public lecture is part of the week-long Lorentz Center workshop ‘Merging biology and geology to study island biodiversity‘.

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SDMs can provide valuable support for planning the preventive management of alien species. However, our findings show that blacklist outcomes are highly sensitive to modelling decisions. While ensemb....

Understanding the future of ecological communities under global change is among the most pressing challenges in plant ecology. Islands, with their reduced species diversity and clear boundaries, have...

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Premise Functional plant ecology seeks to understand how functional traits govern species distributions, community assembly, and ecosystem functions. While global trait datasets have advanced the fi...

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By integrating multiple data sources, we compiled a Global Urban Biological Invasions Compendium (GUBIC) for vascular plants representing 553 urban centres from 61 countries across every continent ex...

This scholarship supports PhD candidates studying ecology and evolutionary biology of plants. Research in Groningen, The Netherlands, and in Sydney, Australia.

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The two-year Master's programme Science for Sustainability is a collaboration between Nijmegen School of Management and the Faculty of Science.

Aim We assessed the influence of island isolation on the composition of insular bird assemblages with a particular focus on species traits associated with dispersal. To do so, we tested whether ecom...

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

Islands cover just 5.3% of the world’s land area, but contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity, according to research published in Nature.

A standardized checklist of all known vascular plants shows the distribution of island native and endemic species, identifies their conservation status and highlights the need for actions to conserve ...

A standardized checklist of all known vascular plants shows the distribution of island native and endemic species, identifies their conservation status and highlights the need for actions to conserve ...

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Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into...