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Open AccessCounting butterflies—are old-fashioned ways of recording data obsolete?
Citizen Science projects aim to make data entry as easy as possible and often provide online data recording or data recording with an App. However, many participants cannot or do not want to use these possibil...
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Open AccessCapacity of countries to reduce biological invasions
The extent and impacts of biological invasions on biodiversity are largely shaped by an array of socio-economic and environmental factors, which exhibit high variation among countries. Yet, a global analysis o...
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Dispersal in Plants and Animals
The biogeographical patterns of ecosystems and species distributions we know today are, apart from other effects such as evolution or ecological interactions, the result of a continuous progression of spatial ...
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Open AccessThe global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Here we provide the ‘Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset’, containing species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits –plant height, stem specific density, leaf area, l...
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Open AccessAlternative futures for global biological invasions
Scenario analysis has emerged as a key tool to analyze complex and uncertain future socio-ecological developments. However, currently existing global scenarios (narratives of how the world may develop) have ne...
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Open AccessFunctional diversity changes in native and alien urban flora over three centuries
Alien species in urban areas have a large effect on overall species diversity. A suitable metric of flora’s response to environmental change is functional diversity (FD) that refers to the multivariate space o...
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Open AccessThe evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth
Understanding how species’ thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to predicting species’ responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived estimates of thermal tolerance l...
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Open AccessMeta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe
Local biodiversity trends over time are likely to be decoupled from global trends, as local processes may compensate or counteract global change. We analyze 161 long-term biological time series (15–91 years) c...
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Open AccessProjected impacts of climate change on functional diversity of frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient
Climate change forces many species to move their ranges to higher latitudes or elevations. Resulting immigration or emigration of species might lead to functional changes, e.g., in the trait distribution and comp...
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Rice Ecosystem Services in South-East Asia: The LEGATO Project, Its Approaches and Main Results with a Focus on Biocontrol Services
LEGATO stands for “Land-use intensity and Ecological EnGineering—Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems.”
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How Good Are Bad Species?
Many non-native species have been introduced because they provide one or more ecosystem service. As some of these species also cause disservices, case-by-case approaches are required to assess risks vs. opport...
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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combina...
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Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia
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Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming
Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-twentieth century1–7 are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the onset ...
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Plant diversity and composition of rice field bunds in Southeast Asia
Which plant species can be found on rice field bunds and what are the prevailing life forms? Which plant communities occur and what are the main environmental drivers and phytogeographic patterns sha** these...
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Open AccessThe LEGATO cross-disciplinary integrated ecosystem service research framework: an example of integrating research results from the analysis of global change impacts and the social, cultural and economic system dynamics of irrigated rice production
In a cross-disciplinary project (LEGATO) combining inter- and transdisciplinary methods, we quantify the dependency of rice-dominated socio-ecological systems on ecosystem functions (ESF) and the ecosystem ser...
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Open AccessGlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms
How climate affects species distributions is a longstanding question receiving renewed interest owing to the need to predict the impacts of global warming on biodiversity. Is climate change forcing species to ...
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Dispersal in Plants and Animals
The biogeographical patterns of ecosystems and species distributions we know today are, apart from other effects such as evolution or ecological interactions, the result of a continuous progression of spatial ...
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British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras
Anthropogenic activities have weakened biogeographical barriers to dispersal, thereby promoting the introduction, establishment and spread of alien species outside their native ranges. Several studies have ide...
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Is there an urban effect in alien plant invasions?
Cities are known to be extraordinarily rich in alien plant species compared to rural environments. This is related to specific attributes of urban areas including the availability of natural resources and habi...
