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  • Humans have greatly altered the distribution of forests across the world. Here, the authors use estimates of tree cover from remote-sensing data to reveal that human impact has produced a strong tendency for forest remnants to persist primarily on sloped terrain.

    • Brody Sandel
    • Jens-Christian Svenning
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 4, P: 1-7

  • Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the world is often either inconsistent or negative.

    • Georg J. A. Hähn
    • Gabriella Damasceno
    • Helge Bruelheide
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 9, P: 237-248

  • Gaps in geographic coverage of species abundance data, especially in the tropics, make determining species’ responses to climate change difficult. Modelling a dataset on global waterbird abundance shows abundance declines in the tropics and increases at higher latitudes when temperatures increase.

    • Tatsuya Amano
    • Tamás Székely
    • William J. Sutherland
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 10, P: 959-964

  • Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.

    • Francesco Maria Sabatini
    • Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
    • Helge Bruelheide
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-16

  • Although plant functional trait combinations reflect ecological trade-offs at the species level, little is known about how this translates to whole communities. Here, the authors show that global trait composition is captured by two main dimensions that are only weakly related to macro-environmental drivers.

    • Helge Bruelheide
    • Jürgen Dengler
    • Ute Jandt
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 2, P: 1906-1917

  • Analyses of the relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits across the tundra and over time show that community height increased with warming across all sites, whereas other traits lagged behind predicted rates of change.

    • Anne D. Bjorkman
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Evan Weiher
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 562, P: 57-62

  • Climate, evolutionary age, topography, land area and several species traits all influence range size. Research quantifying these influences on terrestrial vertebrates suggests that small-range species may be most vulnerable to climate change.

    • Yiming Li
    • Xianping Li
    • Shaofei Yan
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 498-502

  • Statistical modelling of global survey datasets of waterbirds as an indicator taxon for biodiversity changes in wetland ecosystems demonstrates that effective governance is the strongest predictor of species abundance increases and conservation benefits.

    • Tatsuya Amano
    • Tamás Székely
    • William J. Sutherland
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 553, P: 199-202