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Open AccessUnveiling global species abundance distributions
Whether most species are rare or have some intermediate abundance is a long-standing question in ecology. Here, we use more than one billion observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to as...
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Open AccessSmaller Australian raptors have greater urban tolerance
Urbanisation is occurring around the world at a rapid rate and is generally associated with negative impacts on biodiversity at local, regional, and global scales. Examining the behavioural response profiles o...
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Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology
Synthesis of primary ecological data is often assumed to achieve a notion of ‘generality’, through the quantification of overall effect sizes and consistency among studies, and has become a dominant research a...
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Urban conservation gardening in the decade of restoration
Global commitments and policy interventions for conservation have failed to halt widespread declines in plant biodiversity, highlighting an urgent need to engage novel approaches and actors. Here we propose th...
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Open AccessDecision-making of citizen scientists when recording species observations
Citizen scientists play an increasingly important role in biodiversity monitoring. Most of the data, however, are unstructured—collected by diverse methods that are not documented with the data. Insufficient u...
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Open AccessMany cameras make light work: opportunistic photographs of rare species in iNaturalist complement structured surveys of reef fish to better understand species richness
Citizen science is on the rise, with growing numbers of initiatives, participants and increasing interest from the broader scientific community. iNaturalist is an example of a successful citizen science platfo...
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Open AccessLarge-bodied birds are over-represented in unstructured citizen science data
Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen science datasets remains an ...
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How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities
Cities are novel environments compared with the evolutionary history of the species that reside within them. Collectively, cities and their fauna can be thought of as ecosystems, recognized as playing a critic...
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Quantifying bird diversity at three sites of differing herbivore presence
Large herbivores directly and indirectly influence ecosystem function, positively and negatively affecting diversity of plants and animals, including birds. Such cascading effects are clearly important, partic...
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Citizen science data accurately predicts expert-derived species richness at a continental scale when sampling thresholds are met
Understanding species richness patterns in time and space is critical for conservation management and ecological analyses. But estimates of species richness for a given place are often imprecise and incomplete...
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Heterogeneous urban green areas are bird diversity hotspots: insights using continental-scale citizen science data
Urbanization fragments and destroys natural landscapes, generally decreasing bird diversity. While in some cases bird diversity continuously decreases in response to urbanization, in others a non-linear respon...
