• Chemical variations in Quercus pollen as a tool for taxonomic identification: Implications for long-term ecological and biogeographical research 

      Muthreich, Florian; Zimmermann, Boris; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Vila-Vicosa, Carlos M; Seddon, Alistair (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Aim Fossil pollen is an important tool for understanding biogeographical patterns in the past, but the taxonomic resolution of the fossil‐pollen record may be limited to genus or even family level. Chemical analysis of ...
    • Dimensions of amphibian alpha diversity in the New World 

      Ochoa-Ochoa, Leticia M.; Mejía-Domínguez, Nancy R.; Velasco, Julián A.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Marske, Katharine A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Aim The links between taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity and how these vary geographically are key to understanding how historical and contemporary processes have shaped communities at regional and local ...
    • Dispersal syndromes are poorly associated with climatic niche differences in the Azorean seed plants 

      Leo, María; Steinbauer, Manuel; Borges, Paulo A.V.; de Azevedo, Eduardo B.; Gabriel, Rosalina; Schaefer, Hanno; Santos, Ana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aim Environmental niche tracking is linked to the species ability to disperse. While well investigated on large spatial scales, dispersal constraints also influence small-scale processes and may explain the difference ...
    • Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants 

      Fernández-Palacios, José María; Otto, Rüdiger; Borregaard, Michael K.; Kreft, Holger; Price, Jonathan; Steinbauer, Manuel; Weigelt, Patrick; Whittaker, Robert J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aim Adaptive radiation, in which successful lineages proliferate by exploiting untapped niche space, provides a popular but potentially misleading characterization of evolution on oceanic islands. Here we analyse the ...
    • Plant dispersal characteristics shape the relationship of diversity with area and isolation 

      Walentowitz, Anna; Troiano, Claudia; Christiansen, Julie B.; Steinbauer, Manuel; Barfod, Anders S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Aim The relation of plant dispersal syndromes with insular species richness patters remains one of the challenges in island biogeography, especially as people have affected species distribution patterns. This study ...
    • Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants 

      Sporbert, Maria; Keil, Petr; Seidler, Gunnar; Bruelheide, Helge; Jandt, Ute; Aćić, Svetlana; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Chitrý, Milan; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; Golub, Valentin; Jansen, Florian; Kuzemko, Anna; Lenoir, Jonathan; Marcenó, Corrado; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Šilc, Urban; Tsiripidris, Ioannis; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vasilev, Kiril; Virtanen, Risto; Welk, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Aim A fundamental question in macroecology centres around understanding the relationship between species’ local abundance and their distribution in geographical and climatic space (i.e. the multi-dimensional climatic space ...
    • Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities 

      Tovar, Carolina; Carril, Andrea F.; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; Ahrends, Antje; Fita, Lluis; Zaninelli, Pablo; Flombaum, Pedro; Abarzúa, Ana M.; Alarcón, Diego; Aschero, Valeria; Báez, Selene; Barros, Agustina; Carilla, Julieta; Ferrero, M. Eugenia; Flantua, Suzette; Gonzáles, Paúl; Menéndez, Claudio G.; Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A.; Pauchard, Aníbal; Ruscica, Romina C.; Särkinen, Tiina; Sörensson, Anna A.; Srur, Ana; Villalba, Ricardo; Hollingsworth, Peter M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Aim: Climate change is expected to impact mountain biodiversity by shifting species ranges and the biomes they shape. The extent and regional variation in these impacts are still poorly understood, particularly in the ...