H. Kreft

Stand structure as the proximate driver of endemic biodiversity and ecosystem functions in tropical mosaic landscapes

The paper assesses how stand structure and forest cover affect biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Madagascar's tropical landscapes, finding that complex structures enhance endemic species richness and functions.

Planting diversity begets multifaceted tree diversity in oil palm landscapes

The paper tests passive and active restoration strategies in oil palm landscapes, showing that planted tree diversity enhances natural regeneration and multifaceted diversity recovery.

Using natural language processing to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text

This paper develops an NLP pipeline to extract plant functional traits from text, achieving high precision and recall for categorical traits and reasonable accuracy for numerical traits.

Reassessment of the risks of climate change for terrestrial ecosystems

The paper reassesses climate change risks for terrestrial ecosystems by transforming climate data into phytoclimates, finding significant changes and novel climates by 2070.

Scale-dependent landscape-biodiversity relationships shape multi-taxa diversity in an oil palm monoculture under restoration

The paper investigates how scale-dependent processes affect multi-taxa diversity in oil palm monocultures under restoration using a multi-scale approach.

Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity-productivity relationships in island and mainland forests

The paper examines how biogeographic context influences diversity-productivity relationships in island and mainland forests, finding that non-native species enhance productivity in island forests.

GIFT an R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits

The paper introduces GIFT version 3.0, a global plant database with expanded checklists and an R-package for accessing its data.

The contribution of plant life and growth forms to global gradients of vascular plant diversity

The paper quantifies how different plant forms contribute to global vascular plant diversity gradients and identifies environmental and phylogenetic factors shaping their distribution.

Phylogenetic endemism of the world's seed plants

This study quantifies phylogenetic endemism in seed plants worldwide, identifying drivers and centers of neo- and paleoendemism, and highlights conservation priorities.

Latitude influences stability via stabilizing mechanisms in naturally-assembled forest ecosystems at different spatial grains

The paper examines how latitude affects ecosystem stability in forests across different spatial scales, finding that species asynchrony and stability play key roles, with latitude influencing these mechanisms to counteract species richness effects.

Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for landscape restoration

The paper tests if increasing landscape heterogeneity through tree islands enhances multi-taxa diversity in monoculture-dominated landscapes and finds that it does by fostering unique species.

Climate and ant richness explain the global distribution of ant-plant mutualisms

This study examines how climate and ant richness influence the global distribution of three ant-plant mutualisms, revealing distinct biogeographic patterns and climate dependencies.

Machine learning improves global models of plant diversity

The paper uses machine learning and statistical models to predict global plant diversity patterns based on environmental data, achieving high accuracy for species and phylogenetic richness.

Assembly of functional diversity in an oceanic island flora

The paper analyzes the functional trait space of Tenerife's flora, finding that long-distance dispersal and speciation processes drive functional divergence, while cladogenesis leads to functional convergence.

Plant longevity, drought and island isolation favoured rampant evolutionary transitions towards insular woodiness

The paper identifies 1,097 insular woody species and infers 175 evolutionary transitions, finding that aseasonal climate, drought, and island isolation drive insular woodiness.

Trash-basket epiphytes as secondary foundation species: a review of their distribution and effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functions

This paper reviews the distribution and ecological roles of trash-basket epiphytes, highlighting their contributions to biodiversity and ecosystem functions across tropical and temperate forests.

Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity

This study quantifies the contribution of vascular epiphytes to global plant diversity and identifies environmental drivers shaping their distribution.

Differential responses of amphibians and reptiles to land-use change in the biodiversity hotspot of north-eastern Madagascar

The paper compares amphibian and reptile diversity across land-use types in Madagascar, finding amphibians more vulnerable to habitat loss than reptiles.

Modeling the long-term dynamics of tropical forests: from leaf traits to whole-tree growth patterns

This paper develops a 3D forest model linking leaf traits to tree and forest growth patterns, showing how leaf economic spectrum traits determine tree life history strategies and forest structure.

Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities

The paper examines how land-use change and human pressures affect native and alien species on islands, finding that native species decline while alien species increase in disturbed areas.

Disharmony of the world’s island floras

The paper quantitatively assesses island disharmony by analyzing 320 island floras and 450 plant families, finding compositional bias linked to island characteristics rather than family traits.

GIFT - A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

The paper introduces GIFT, a global database integrating plant species distributions, traits, and phylogenetic data, enabling macroecological and biogeographical research.

Interactions between ecological, evolutionary, and environmental processes unveil complex dynamics of island biodiversity

The paper introduces BioGEEM, a model integrating ecological, evolutionary, and environmental processes to simulate island biodiversity dynamics and test hypotheses about their roles.

Effects of time and isolation on plant diversity: testing island biogeography theory with an eco-evolutionary model

The paper uses an eco-evolutionary model to test the General Dynamic Model of oceanic island biogeography, finding humped trends in species richness and confirming most predictions while highlighting differences in endemic proportions over time and isolation.