Lifting the veil: richness measurements fail to detect systematic biodiversity change over three decades

Is local biodiversity declining or not? A summary of the debate over analysis of species richness time trends

(2018) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity gains? The debate on changes in local- vs global-scale species richness

(2018) Richard B. Primack et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

(2017) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Temporal variability in taxonomic and trait compositions of invertebrate assemblages in two climatic regions with contrasting flow regimes

(2017) Sylvain Dolédec et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Long-term changes in temperate stream invertebrate communities reveal a synchronous trophic amplification at the turn of the millennium

(2016) Kris Van Looy et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Recent Trends in Local-Scale Marine Biodiversity Reflect Community Structure and Human Impacts

(2015) Robin Elahi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Richness is not all: how changes in avian functional diversity reflect major landscape modification caused by pine plantations

(2015) David Lindenmayer et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ecological specialization matters: long-term trends in butterfly species richness and assemblage composition depend on multiple functional traits

(2015) Anne Eskildsen et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences

(2015) Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

(2015) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community

(2015) Susan P. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Species-level and community-level responses to disturbance: a cross-community analysis

(2014) Sarah R. Supp et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking interdecadal changes in British river ecosystems to water quality and climate dynamics

(2014) Ian P. Vaughan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Asynchrony of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in birds

(2014) Anne-Christine Monnet et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Is taxonomic homogenization linked to functional homogenization in temperate forests?

(2014) Grégory Sonnier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Functional homogenization exceeds taxonomic homogenization among European fish assemblages

(2014) Sébastien Villéger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Multiple site dissimilarity quantifies compositional heterogeneity among several sites, while average pairwise dissimilarity may be misleading

(2013) Andrés Baselga   ECOGRAPHY

Scale-dependent effect sizes of ecological drivers on biodiversity: why standardised sampling is not enough

(2013) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using fuzzy-coded traits to elucidate the non-random role of anthropogenic stress in the functional homogenisation of invertebrate assemblages

(2013) Cédric P. Mondy et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Determinants of extinction-colonization dynamics in Mediterranean butterflies: the role of landscape, climate and local habitat features

(2013) Albert Fernández-Chacón et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Improving approaches to the analysis of functional and taxonomic biotic homogenization: beyond mean specialization

(2013) Frédéric Gosselin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

(2013) M. Vellend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Local diversity stays about the same, regional diversity increases, and global diversity declines

(2013) C. D. Thomas   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling distribution in European stream macroinvertebrates under future climates

(2012) Sami Domisch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land cover and distance across scales

(2012) Petr Keil et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Homogenization patterns of the world's freshwater fish faunas

(2011) S. Villeger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combined effects of habitat modification on trait composition and species nestedness in river invertebrates

(2010) Stefano Larsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A Review of the European Summer Heat Wave of 2003

(2010) R. García-Herrera et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

The relationship between functional and taxonomic homogenization

(2010) Benjamin Baiser et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Explaining abundance-occupancy relationships in specialists and generalists: a case study on aquatic macroinvertebrates in standing waters

(2010) Wilco C. E. P. Verberk et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Evidence for the role of climate in the local extinction of a cool-water triclad

(2010) Isabelle Durance et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Random sampling, abundance-extinction dynamics and niche-filtering immigration constraints explain the generation of species richness gradients

(2008) Jofre Carnicer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Restoration and recovery from acidification in upland Welsh streams over 25 years

(2008) S. J. Ormerod et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Niche Partitioning Increases Resource Exploitation by Diverse Communities

(2008) Deborah L. Finke et al.   SCIENCE