Blar i University of Bergen Library på tidsskrift "Global Ecology and Biogeography"
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Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aim: Climate and land use are key determinants of biodiversity, with past and ongoing changes posing serious threats to global ecosystems. Unlike most other organism groups, plant species can possess dormant life‐history ... -
Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim Functional traits can help us to elucidate biogeographical and ecological processes driving assemblage structure. We analysed the functional diversity of plant species of different evolutionary origins across an island ... -
Geomorphological processes shape plant community traits in the Arctic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim Geomorphological processes profoundly affect plant establishment and distributions, but their influence on functional traits is insufficiently understood. Here, we unveil trait–geomorphology relationships in Arctic ... -
Global raster dataset on historical coastline positions and shelf sea extents since the Last Glacial Maximum
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Motivation: Historical changes in sea level caused shifting coastlines that affected the distribution and evolution of marine and terrestrial biota. At the onset of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 26 ka, sea levels were ... -
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large-scale syntheses using fossil pollen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aim: Palaeoecological data are crucial for comprehending large-scale biodiversity patterns and the natural and anthropogenic drivers that influence them over time. Over the last decade, the availability of open-access ... -
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross-continental comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aim: Many studies demonstrate that climate limits invertebrates along tropical elevational gradients, but we have only a rudimentary understanding of the role of nutrient limitation and climatic seasonality. Here we examined ... -
Poleward distribution of mesopelagic fishes is constrained by seasonality in light
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim: Mesopelagic fishes have a near-global distribution in the upper 1,000 m from tropical to sub-Arctic oceans across temperature regimes. Yet, their abundance decreases poleward and viable populations seem excluded from ... -
Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aim Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true islands” (land surrounded by water) and the isolation of habitats ... -
Spatio-temporal patterns in the woodiness of flowering plants
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim Woody and herbaceous habits represent one of the most distinct contrasts among angiosperms, and the proportion of woody species in floras (i.e., “woodiness” hereafter) represents a fundamental structural element of ... -
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or ... -
Trait-based responses to land use and canopy dynamics modify long-term diversity changes in forest understories
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aim: Land use is the foremost cause of global biodiversity decline, but species do not respond equally to land-use practices. Instead, it is suggested that responses vary with species traits, but long-term data on the ...