S. A. Blowes

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.

This paper introduces a framework to quantify non-random contributions to beta-diversity using rarefaction curves and a coverage-standardized metric, applied to avian species composition in engineered and natural riparian areas.

The paper assesses body size changes across six taxon groups and finds that decreases in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass due to compensatory abundance increases.

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.

The paper develops a geometric theory to explain biodiversity in surface habitats, showing it explains 98% of variation in coral reefs.

This study examines temperature-related biodiversity changes in temperate marine and terrestrial systems, finding stronger marine biodiversity responses to warming than terrestrial systems.

The paper extends the MoB framework to analyze diversity gradients by quantifying the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation along environmental gradients using ant data from the Great Smoky Mountains.

The paper quantifies how 150 years of forest cover change impacted population abundance, species richness, and temporal species turnover globally, finding forest loss intensified these changes by up to 48%.

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