Beta diversity diminishes in a chronosequence of desertification in a desert steppe

Convergence and divergence in a long-term old-field succession: the importance of spatial scale and species abundance

(2016) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of plant functional group loss on soil biota and net ecosystem exchange: a plant removal experiment in the Mongolian grassland

(2016) Dima Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

(2016) Martin M. Gossner et al.   NATURE

Effect of desertification on productivity in a desert steppe

(2016) Zhuangsheng Tang et al.   Scientific Reports

Assembly mechanisms determining high species turnover in aquatic communities over regional and continental scales

(2015) Duarte S. Viana et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Antithetical effects of nitrogen and water availability on community similarity of semiarid grasslands: evidence from a nine-year manipulation experiment

(2015) Zhuwen Xu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

(2015) Francisco Dini-Andreote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

(2015) Sagrario Gámez-Virués et al.   Nature Communications

Using functional diversity patterns to explore metacommunity dynamics: a framework for understanding local and regional influences on community structure

(2014) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Competitive exclusion, beta diversity, and deterministic vs. stochastic drivers of community assembly

(2014) Hila Segre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands

(2014) Werner Ulrich et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Hydrological stability drives both local and regional diversity patterns in rock pool metacommunities

(2014) Luc Brendonck et al.   OIKOS

Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes

(2013) Robert M. Ewers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Long-term fencing effects on plant diversity and soil properties in China

(2013) Lei Deng et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales

(2012) Daniel S. Karp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

(2012) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

(2012) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Partitioning global patterns of freshwater fish beta diversity reveals contrasting signatures of past climate changes

(2011) Fabien Leprieur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles

(2011) Joaquín Hortal et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

(2011) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Desertification alters the response of vegetation to changes in precipitation

(2010) Santiago R. Verón et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments

(2010) J. M. Chase   SCIENCE

Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China

(2009) Pierre Legendre et al.   ECOLOGY

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY