Land-use change promotes avian diversity at the expense of species with unique traits

Can temporal and spatial NDVI predict regional bird-species richness?

(2015) Sebastián Nieto et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Local Scale Comparisons of Biodiversity as a Test for Global Protected Area Ecological Performance: A Meta-Analysis

(2014) Bernard W. T. Coetzee et al.   PLoS One

World population stabilization unlikely this century

(2014) P. Gerland et al.   SCIENCE

The fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

(2014) Alexandra M. Brown et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global agricultural expansion and carnivore conservation biogeography

(2013) Ricardo Dobrovolski et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines

(2013) Jonas Geldmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Novel ecosystems support substantial avian assemblages: the case of invasive alienAcaciathickets

(2013) Andrew M. Rogers et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species

(2013) Martine Maron et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The Anthropocene could raise biological diversity

(2013) Chris D. Thomas   NATURE

Changes in Bird Functional Diversity across Multiple Land Uses: Interpretations of Functional Redundancy Depend on Functional Group Identity

(2013) Gary W. Luck et al.   PLoS One

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Frequent bird movements across a highly fragmented landscape: the role of species traits and forest matrix

(2012) E. L. Neuschulz et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

(2012) Akira S. Mori et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

High Bird Species Diversity in Structurally Heterogeneous Farmland in Western Kenya

(2012) Ronald K. Mulwa et al.   BIOTROPICA

Biodiversity and land-use change: understanding the complex responses of an endemic-rich bird assemblage

(2012) Ricardo Faustino de Lima et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Scale effects on the body size frequency distributions of African birds: patterns and potential mechanisms

(2012) Bernard W. T. Coetzee et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

(2012) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Improving the application of vertebrate trait-based frameworks to the study of ecosystem services

(2012) Gary W. Luck et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

mvabund- anRpackage for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data

(2012) Yi Wang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The ecological effectiveness of protected areas: a case study for South African birds

(2011) M. Greve et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Species diversity and functional diversity relationship varies with disturbance intensity

(2011) Shekhar R. Biswas et al.   Ecosphere

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

(2010) Joanne Clavel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems

(2010) Marco Pautasso et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects

(2010) S. Bruce Archibald et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Temporal biodiversity change in transformed landscapes: a southern African perspective

(2010) S. L. Chown   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can traits predict species' vulnerability? A test with farmland passerines in two continents

(2010) M. J. O. Pocock   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Loss of functionally unique species may gradually undermine ecosystems

(2010) E. J. O'Gorman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessing the broad-scale impact of agriculturally transformed and protected area landscapes on avian taxonomic and functional richness

(2009) Matthew F. Child et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size

(2009) Len Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biotic homogenization and alien bird species along an urban gradient in South Africa

(2009) Berndt J. van Rensburg et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory

(2009) M. Loreau   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Allometry of the Duration of Flight Feather Molt in Birds

(2009) Sievert Rohwer et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Ecological Performance of Protected Areas

(2008) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Abundance-body size relationships: the roles of metabolism and population dynamics

(2008) Hannah M. Lewis et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

(2008) Maud Mouchet et al.   OIKOS

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

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

Functional biotic homogenization of bird communities in disturbed landscapes

(2007) Vincent Devictor et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY