Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

This paper quantitatively assesses microbial conservation by analyzing 33,297 effect sizes, identifying key threats and showing the insufficiency of current conservation efforts.

This study analyzes global trends and research hotspots in grassland root functional traits from 2000 to 2025 using bibliometric methods and identifies six key research areas.

The paper develops a stacked model to predict missing links in food webs using species traits and network structure, showing high accuracy on synthetic and real-world data.

This study shows white clover adapts rapidly to climate in both native and introduced ranges but lags behind climate change in the introduced range.

The paper evaluates how habitat patch size, quality, and connectivity affect urban biodiversity across taxa, finding small patches significantly contribute to species richness and community diversity.

This paper identifies barriers to response diversity research through expert surveys and proposes a coordinated research network to advance the field.

The paper shows that data leakage and measurement errors can falsely inflate the predictability of plant mixture overyielding from traits, highlighting the need for rigorous validation.

The paper evaluates how dispersal, priority effects, and species sorting influence β-diversity in metacommunities, showing a unimodal response to immigration rates.

The paper demonstrates how relaxing homoscedasticity assumptions and using cross-validation improves ecological evidence synthesis by better quantifying transferability of effects across contexts.

The paper uses HMSC models to quantify the impact of phenotypic evolution on metacommunity composition and applies them to an aquatic plant dataset.

The paper models how landscape fragmentation affects carrying capacity based on species' home-range sizes and habitat quality thresholds.

The paper assesses how land-use changes affect diurnal butterfly diversity in subtropical montane forests, finding increased dominance of open-area species and reduced forest-dependent species.

This study evaluates how open research data and community science data can improve tracking of invasive species in Japan, finding complementary strengths and limitations between the two data sources.

The paper compares floristic, structural, successional, and phylogenetic features of three adjacent forest environments in the Atlantic Forest to distinguish between successional dynamics and edaphic climax vegetation.

This paper introduces a framework to identify and analyze biogeographic transition zones using a new metric, the Transition Zone Index (TZI), and applies it to vascular plants in southern Africa.

The paper ranks plant species by abundance in Eastern Australia and finds that a small number of species account for most vegetation cover, highlighting gaps in trait data for common species.

This paper compares two conservation metrics, EDGE and FUSE, and introduces a new metric EFUSE that combines evolutionary and functional distinctiveness to improve conservation prioritization.

This study shows that enhancing structural heterogeneity in forests increases hoverfly diversity, with benefits for taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity.

The paper examines how intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability change with tree species richness and their impact on community functional diversity.

The paper examines how disturbance interacts with dispersal and niche breadth to influence scale-dependent diversity changes in metacommunities.

The study examines how light and water conditions affect plantlet production and vegetative growth in four Kalanchoe species, revealing differences in reproductive strategies that may aid their invasive spread.

The paper introduces VegVault, a database integrating paleo- and neo-vegetation data with functional traits and abiotic drivers to support ecological research on biodiversity patterns.

The paper examines how human-modified habitats affect invertebrate species' habitat specialisation and range changes in Great Britain from 1981-2020.

This study examines carabid beetle diversity and functional roles across salinity gradients in marshlands, finding that salinity and flooding shape distinct taxonomic and functional assemblages.

This paper models the decline in Sporobolus anglicus detections in the Marlborough Sounds, predicting functional eradication by 2032 and recommending intensified monitoring and environmental DNA for post-eradication surveillance.

The paper uses mechanistic population models to show how density dependence promotes species coexistence and explains productivity-diversity relationships.

The paper develops a statistical method to correct global biodiversity indicators by accounting for hard-to-sample species, finding they decline more with land-use intensity.

The paper examines how rainfall variation affects species interactions and coexistence mechanisms in Mediterranean grasslands over nine years.

Across 1281 bird assemblages and 3696 species, land-use change lowers functional redundancy and resistance to simulated extinctions despite lower vulnerability, hitting frugivores and invertivores hardest.

This study examines how fluctuating flooding affects interactions between two wetland invaders, finding that Alternanthera philoxeroides facilitates Myriophyllum aquaticum under fluctuating flooding, supporting the stress gradient hypothesis.