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...

The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

The island species−area relationship (ISAR) is known to be near-ubiquitous, but its properties across the fullest span of island areas globally and...

Abstract. Species richness gradients are ubiquitous in nature, but the mechanisms that generate and maintain these patterns at macroecological scales remai

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A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...

How ancient rifting reshaped the island's landscape and helped forge one of Earth's richest biodiversity hotspots.

We show that species richness and community trait composition on 132 Australian islands remained stable over six decades, despite high species turnover. Colonisation and extinction probabilities were....

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Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

A key test of an ecological model is whether it can quantitatively predict unseen aspects of the data not used in model fitting. Here, we test whether a model fitted only to island alpha diversity ca....

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Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...

In an era of unprecedented biodiversity loss, the need for standardized practices to describe biological variation is becoming increasingly importa...

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00049-6Glaciers are retreating with global climate warming, which threatens glacier specialists and the functions and stability of glaciers and glacially influenced ecosystems. This Review describes the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity, highlighting species that are likely to thrive or decline with glacier loss, and outlines key challenges and research priorities in conserving and managing biodiversity.

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Biological invasions are profoundly altering Earth’s ecosystems, but generalities about the effects of nonnative species on the diversity and produ...

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Despite the increasingly available phylogenetic hypotheses for multiple taxonomic groups, most of them do not include all species. In phylogenetic ecology, there is still a strong demand to have phyl...

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Abstract. The planform geometry of branching drainage networks controls the topography of landscapes and their geomorphic, hydrologic, and ecologic functionality. The complexity of networks' geometry ...