A meta-analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems

Disentangling multi-scale environmental effects on stream microbial communities

(2017) Jenny Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global variation in the beta diversity of lake macrophytes is driven by environmental heterogeneity rather than latitude

(2017) Janne Alahuhta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental degradation results in contrasting changes in the assembly processes of stream bacterial and fungal communities

(2017) Heikki Mykrä et al.   OIKOS

Homogenizing and diversifying effects of intensive agricultural land-use on plant species beta diversity in Central Europe — A call to adapt our conservation measures

(2017) Constanze Buhk et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Exploring stream communities in a tropical biodiversity hotspot: biodiversity, regional occupancy, niche characteristics and environmental correlates

(2016) Jonathan D. Tonkin et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Local conditionsvsregional context: variation in composition of bird communities along the Middle Paraná River, an extensive river-floodplain system of South America

(2016) R. E. Lorenzón et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Unravelling the drivers of aquatic communities using disparate organismal groups and different taxonomic levels

(2016) Annika Vilmi et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Microbial eukaryote communities exhibit robust biogeographical patterns along a gradient of Patagonian and Antarctic lakes

(2016) M. Romina Schiaffino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The roles of elevation and local environmental factors as drivers of diatom diversity in subarctic streams

(2016) Anette Teittinen et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Riverine networks constrain β-diversity patterns among fish assemblages in a large Neotropical river

(2016) Oscar B. Vitorino Júnior et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Environmental heterogeneity among lakes promotes hyper β-diversity across phytoplankton communities

(2016) Selma Maloufi et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Break the pattern: breakpoints in beta diversity of vertebrates are general across clades and suggest common historical causes

(2016) Adrián Castro-Insua et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dissecting global turnover in vascular plants

(2016) Christian König et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global patterns and drivers of species and trait composition in diatoms

(2016) Janne Soininen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Amazon floodplain fish diversity at different scales: do time and place really matter?

(2016) Flávia K. Siqueira-Souza et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Selective extinction drives taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversities in island bird assemblages

(2016) Xingfeng Si et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Glaciations, deciduous forests, water availability and current geographical patterns in the diversity of European Carabus species

(2016) Joaquín Calatayud et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evidence of small-scale spatial structuring of phytoplankton alpha- and beta-diversity in the open ocean

(2016) Erik Askov Mousing et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vegetation structure determines insect herbivore diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Camila Rabelo Oliveira Leal et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Bark and Ambrosia Beetles in a Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest

(2016) Luiz Eduardo Macedo-Reis et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Meiofauna communities, nematode diversity and C degradation rates in seagrass (Posidonia oceanica L.) and unvegetated sediments invaded by the algae Caulerpa cylindracea (Sonder)

(2016) Antonio Pusceddu et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Ignoring spatial effects results in inadequate models for variation in littoral macroinvertebrate diversity

(2016) Kimmo T. Tolonen et al.   OIKOS

Beta Diversity in a Highly Heterogeneous Area: Disentangling Species and Taxonomic Dissimilarity for Terrestrial Vertebrates

(2016) Jaime M. Calderón-Patrón et al.   PLoS One

Fine-Scale Vertical Stratification and Guild Composition of Saproxylic Beetles in Lowland and Montane Forests: Similar Patterns despite Low Faunal Overlap

(2016) Matthias Weiss et al.   PLoS One

High spatial variation in terrestrial arthropod species diversity and composition near the Greenland ice cap

(2016) Rikke Reisner Hansen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

DNA barcoding reveals diversity patterns of earthworm communities in remote tropical forests of French Guiana

(2016) Thibaud Decaëns et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?

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

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

(2016) Jizhong Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Nutrient enrichment modifies temperature-biodiversity relationships in large-scale field experiments

(2016) Jianjun Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Biodiversity loss and turnover in alternative states in the Mediterranean Sea: a case study on meiofauna

(2016) Silvia Bianchelli et al.   Scientific Reports

Hierarchical decomposition of trait patterns of macroinvertebrate communities in subarctic streams

(2016) Katri E. Tolonen et al.   Freshwater Science

Hierarchical decomposition of trait patterns of macroinvertebrate communities in subarctic streams

(2016) Katri E. Tolonen et al.   Freshwater Science

Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Determinants of Functional Composition of Bolivian Bat Assemblages

(2016) Luis F. Aguirre et al.   PLoS One

Testing the theory of island biogeography for microorganisms—patterns for spring diatoms

(2015) A Teittinen et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Duarte S. Viana et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Disentangling the influence of local and landscape factors on alpha and beta diversities: opposite response of plants and ground-dwelling arthropods in wet meadows

(2015) Denis Lafage et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The Effects of Restoration Age and Prescribed Burns on Grassland Ant Community Structure

(2015) Sean B. Menke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Elements of metacommunity structure and community-environment relationships in stream organisms

(2015) Jani Heino et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates in the riverbed of an intermittent river: parallels and contrasts in community organisation

(2015) Roland Corti et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Patterns and predictors of β-diversity in the fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest: a multiscale analysis of forest specialist and generalist birds

(2015) José Carlos Morante-Filho et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic-floodplain system

(2015) Jonathan D. Tonkin et al.   OIKOS

Additive partitioning of a beta diversity index is controversial

(2015) Youhua Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting community structure in snakes on Eastern Nearctic islands using ecological neutral theory and phylogenetic methods

(2015) Frank T. Burbrink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism

(2015) J. Davison et al.   SCIENCE

Variation in stream diatom communities in relation to water quality and catchment variables in a boreal, urbanized region

(2015) Anette Teittinen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Deterministic processes vary during community assembly for ecologically dissimilar taxa

(2015) Jeff R. Powell et al.   Nature Communications

Comparing methods to separate components of beta diversity

(2015) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Impact of Changes in Species Richness and Species Replacement on Patterns of Taxonomic Homogenization in the Carpathian Forest Ecosystems

(2015) Tomasz Durak et al.   Forests

Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity, followed by soil chemistry, spatial location and plant genus

(2015) J. H. Burns et al.   AoB Plants

The devil is in the detail: estimating species richness, density, and relative abundance of tropical island herpetofauna

(2015) Harikrishnan Surendran et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Revealing Beta-Diversity Patterns of Breeding Bird and Lizard Communities on Inundated Land-Bridge Islands by Separating the Turnover and Nestedness Components

(2015) Xingfeng Si et al.   PLoS One

Habitats and trophic relationships of Chironomidae insect larvae from the Sepotuba River basin, Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil

(2014) CMM. Butakka et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Reconceptualising the beta diversity-environmental heterogeneity relationship in running water systems

(2014) Jani Heino et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

(2014) Jani Heino et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Elements of regional beetle faunas: faunal variation and compositional breakpoints along climate, land cover and geographical gradients

(2014) Jani Heino et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Season-specific and guild-specific effects of anthropogenic landscape modification on metacommunity structure of tropical bats

(2014) Laura M. Cisneros et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Elevation-diversity patterns through space and time: ant communities of the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of southern Africa

(2014) Tom R. Bishop et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Multi-scale sampling boosts inferences from beta diversity patterns in coastal forests of South Africa

(2014) Pieter I. Olivier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fish Functional Traits Correlated with Environmental Variables in a Temperate Biodiversity Hotspot

(2014) Benjamin P. Keck et al.   PLoS One

Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome

(2014) J. M. Talbot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Morphological traits: predictable responses to macrohabitats across a 300 km scale

(2014) Michelle L. Yates et al.   PeerJ

Mutualistic Mimicry and Filtering by Altitude Shape the Structure of Andean Butterfly Communities

(2013) Nicolas Chazot et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Fire Refuge Value of Patches of a Fire-Sensitive Tree in Fire-prone Savannas:Callitris intratropicain Northern Australia

(2013) Ian. J. Radford et al.   BIOTROPICA

Revealing a conservation challenge through partitioned long-term beta diversity: increasing turnover and decreasing nestedness of boreal lake metacommunities

(2013) David G. Angeler   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

(2013) Andrés Baselga   ECOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

(2013) Jianjun Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Response of collembolan assemblages to plant species successional gradient

(2013) Gabriel Perez et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Distinguishing between turnover and nestedness in the quantification of biotic homogenization

(2012) Lander Baeten et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Geographical patterns and partition of turnover and richness components of beta-diversity in faunas from Tocantins river valley

(2012) MLS. Tonial et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms

(2012) T. Bie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Projected impacts of climate change on spatio-temporal patterns of freshwater fish beta diversity: a deconstructing approach

(2012) Clément Tisseuil et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rainforest ants of the Tiwi Islands: a remarkable centre of endemism in Australia’s monsoonal tropics

(2012) A. N. Andersen et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The relationship of tropical bird communities to tree species composition and vegetation structure along an Andean elevational gradient

(2012) Jill E. Jankowski et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Historical Legacies in World Amphibian Diversity Revealed by the Turnover and Nestedness Components of Beta Diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   PLoS One

Distance Decay of Similarity in Neotropical Diatom Communities

(2012) Carlos E. Wetzel et al.   PLoS One

Analysis of nestedness in freshwater assemblages—patterns across species and trophic levels

(2012) Janne Soininen et al.   Freshwater Science

Invasion impacts on biodiversity: responses of ant communities to infestation by cat’s claw creeper vine, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae) in subtropical Australia

(2011) Olusegun O. Osunkoya et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Experimental evidence for mediation of competition by habitat succession

(2011) H. Gibb   ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Joaquín Hortal et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro- and microorganisms follow the same rules?

(2011) Anna Astorga et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic history and dispersal ability explain the relative importance of turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2011) Ricardo Dobrovolski et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Determining the relative roles of species replacement and species richness differences in generating beta-diversity patterns

(2011) José C. Carvalho et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ants on a mountain: spatial, environmental and habitat associations along an altitudinal transect in a centre of endemism

(2011) T. C. Munyai et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

A new conceptual and methodological framework for exploring and explaining pattern in presence - absence data

(2011) János Podani et al.   OIKOS

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

(2010) J. D. HADFIELD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Patterns of functional biodiversity and function-environment relationships in lake littoral macroinvertebrates

(2010) Jani Heino   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

(2010) Sean B. Menke et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

Investigating residual effects of selective logging on ant species assemblages in Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka

(2009) N.R. Gunawardene et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beta diversity in relation to dispersal ability for vascular plants in North America

(2009) Hong Qian   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns of ant species diversity and turnover across 2000 km of Amazonian floodplain forest

(2009) Heraldo L. Vasconcelos et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The latitudinal gradient of beta diversity in relation to climate and topography for mammals in North America

(2008) Hong Qian et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Weak relationships between landscape characteristics and multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity in a boreal drainage basin

(2008) Jani Heino et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: a consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity

(2008) Gerald Jurasinski et al.   OECOLOGIA