F. May

Geometric and demographic effects explain contrasting fragmentation-biodiversity relationships across scales

This study uses a metacommunity model to show how geometric and demographic fragmentation effects influence biodiversity across scales, reconciling conflicting previous results.

A meta-analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age

This paper conducts a meta-analysis showing protected areas increase fish species richness by 18% but not Shannon entropy, with no effect of protection degree or duration, and larger areas may reduce richness ratios.

A cross-scale assessment of productivity-diversity relationships

This study examines how productivity influences diversity (NPP→S) and diversity influences productivity (S→NPP) across different spatial scales in North American forests.

Using coverage-based rarefaction to infer non-random species distributions

The paper introduces a new metric, βC, to assess non-random species distribution by accounting for sample completeness, showing no latitude-related spatial structure changes in two case studies.

While shoot herbivory mitigates, root herbivory exacerbates eutrophication’s impact on diversity in a grassland model

The paper shows that root herbivory worsens eutrophication's negative impact on plant diversity in grasslands, while shoot herbivory reduces it.

A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship

This paper introduces a framework to disentangle ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship using sampling-explicit parameters from rarefaction curves.

The geometry of habitat fragmentation: effects of distribution patterns on short-term species persistence

This study quantifies geometric fragmentation effects on species persistence using spatial simulations, finding positive effects for aggregated species distributions and weakly negative for regular distributions.

MoB (Measurement of Biodiversity): a method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change

The paper introduces MoB, a method to decompose changes in species richness into components of abundance distribution, density, and spatial arrangement, and applies it to plant species data in invaded and uninvaded woodlands.

Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

This paper investigates how biodiversity changes across spatial scales and introduces methods to better quantify these changes using rarefaction curves and case studies.

mobsim: An R package for the simulation and measurement of biodiversity across spatial scales

mobsim simulates biodiversity patterns and analyses sampling effects across spatial scales to improve biodiversity metric interpretation.