Trophic interactions among vertebrate guilds and plants shape global patterns in species diversity

Trophic redundancy reduces vulnerability to extinction cascades

(2018) Dirk Sanders et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abundance and local-scale processes contribute to multi-phyla gradients in global marine diversity

(2017) Graham J. Edgar et al.   Science Advances

Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity

(2017) Andrew D. Barnes et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Enemy at the gates: Rapid defensive trait diversification in an adaptive radiation of lizards

(2016) Chris Broeckhoven et al.   EVOLUTION

The asymmetry in the Great American Biotic Interchange in mammals is consistent with differential susceptibility to mammalian predation

(2016) Søren Faurby et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Different-sized grazers have distinctive effects on plant functional composition of an African savannah

(2016) Fons van der Plas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The impact of the megafauna extinctions on savanna woody cover in South America

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative-experimental approach

(2015) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spatial patterns and predictors of trophic control in marine ecosystems

(2015) Daniel G. Boyce et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Empirical evidence for the scale dependence of biotic interactions

(2015) Jonathan Belmaker et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bottom-up and top-down effects on plant communities: nutrients limit productivity, but insects determine diversity and composition

(2015) Lara Souza et al.   OIKOS

Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

(2015) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a trophic theory of species diversity

(2015) John W. Terborgh   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Incorporating anthropogenic effects into trophic ecology: predator–prey interactions in a human-dominated landscape

(2015) Ine Dorresteijn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The unique ecology of human predators

(2015) C. T. Darimont et al.   SCIENCE

Multispecies interactions across trophic levels at macroscales: retrospective and future directions

(2014) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   ECOGRAPHY

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Global meta-analysis reveals low consistency of biodiversity congruence relationships

(2014) Martin J. Westgate et al.   Nature Communications

Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide

(2014) Wilm Daniel Kissling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Mammal predator and prey species richness are strongly linked at macroscales

(2013) Christopher Sandom et al.   ECOLOGY

Continental-scale variability in browser diversity is a major driver of diversity patterns in acacias across Africa

(2013) Michelle Greve et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Humans Strengthen Bottom-Up Effects and Weaken Trophic Cascades in a Terrestrial Food Web

(2013) Tyler B. Muhly et al.   PLoS One

Unraveling plant–animal diversity relationships: a meta-regression analysis

(2012) Bastien Castagneyrol et al.   ECOLOGY

Local forest structure, climate and human disturbance determine regional distribution of boreal bird species richness in Alberta, Canada

(2012) Jian Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15years after wolf reintroduction

(2011) William J. Ripple et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Trophic theory of island biogeography

(2011) Dominique Gravel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm

(2011) Qiaozhen Mu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial scale and cross-taxon congruence of terrestrial vertebrate and vascular plant species richness in China

(2010) Hong Qian et al.   ECOLOGY

Birds help plants: a meta-analysis of top-down trophic cascades caused by avian predators

(2010) Elina Mäntylä et al.   OECOLOGIA

Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions?

(2009) Douglas W. Schemske et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States

(2009) Robert L. Beschta et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context

(2009) Bill Shipley   ECOLOGY

Herbivores, resources and risks: alternating regulation along primary environmental gradients in savannas

(2009) J. Grant C. Hopcraft et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Global concordance in diversity patterns of vascular plants and terrestrial vertebrates

(2008) Hong Qian et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of historical and contemporary factors on global patterns in avian species richness

(2008) Hong Qian   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The interaction between predation and competition

(2008) Peter Chesson et al.   NATURE

Global associations between terrestrial producer and vertebrate consumer diversity

(2008) W. Jetz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evaluating the species energy relationship with the newest measures of ecosystem energy: NDVI versus MODIS primary production

(2008) L PHILLIPS et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT