Species richness change across spatial scales

A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene

(2019) Maria Dornelas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global patterns and drivers of tree diversity integrated across a continuum of spatial grains

(2019) Petr Keil et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

Taxonomic and functional diversity change is scale dependent

(2018) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   Nature Communications

Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

(2018) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

(2018) Maria Dornelas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial scaling of extinction rates: Theory and data reveal nonlinearity and a major upscaling and downscaling challenge

(2017) Petr Keil et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

(2017) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Land use intensification in the humid tropics increased both alpha and beta diversity of soil bacteria

(2016) Teotonio Soares de Carvalho et al.   ECOLOGY

Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity

(2016) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   ECOLOGY

Integrating plant- and animal-based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity

(2016) Clive McAlpine et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010

(2016) Aafke M. Schipper et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increasing species richness but decreasing phylogenetic richness and divergence over a 320-year period of urbanization

(2016) Sonja Knapp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

(2016) Martin M. Gossner et al.   NATURE

How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?

(2016) Jacob B. Socolar et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Reconciling Biodiversity Indicators to Guide Understanding and Action

(2016) Samantha L.L. Hill et al.   Conservation Letters

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

(2015) Robin Elahi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes?

(2015) Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Current extinction rates of reptiles and amphibians

(2015) John Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

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

The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

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

(2014) Sarah R. Supp et al.   ECOLOGY

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

(2014) D. P. Tittensor et al.   SCIENCE

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

Native, alien, endemic, threatened, and extinct species diversity in European countries

(2013) Franz Essl et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity–area relationship

(2013) Adam B. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants

(2013) Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown

(2012) Henrique Miguel Pereira et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Sampled-based estimation of diversity sensu stricto by transforming Hurlbert diversities into effective number of species

(2011) Gilles Dauby et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity change is scale-dependent: an example from Dutch and UK hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae)

(2010) Petr Keil et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The underpinnings of the relationship of species richness with space and time

(2010) Samuel M. Scheiner et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Spatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity

(2010) Hélène Morlon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

(2009) M. Winter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover

(2009) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Changes in species diversity following habitat disturbance are dependent on spatial scale: theoretical and empirical evidence

(2008) Alex J. Dumbrell et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands

(2008) D. F. Sax et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA