Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny

Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 583-590

  Vellend, Mark ^a   Dornelas, Maria ^b   Baeten, Lander ^c   Beauséjour, Robin ^a   Brown, Carissa D ^d   De Frenne, Pieter ^c   Elmendorf, Sarah C ^e   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^f   Moyes, Faye ^b   Myers Smith, Isla H ^g   Magurran, Anne E ^b   McGill, Brian J ^h   Shimadzu, Hideyasu ⁱ   Sievers, Caya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

ⁱ LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance; Geographic bias; Meta analysis; Species richness; Temporal change; Time series

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; META-ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85010378825     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1660     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Cardinale, B. J., et al. 2012. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486:59-67.
2. Colwell, R. K., and D. C. Lees. 2000. The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15:70-76.
3. Dornelas, M., N. J. Gotelli, B. McGill, H. Shimadzu, F. Moyes, C. Sievers, and A. E. Magurran. 2014. Assemblage time series reveal biodiversity change but not systematic loss. Science 344:296-299.
4. Duguid, M. C., and M. S. Ashton. 2013. A meta-analysis of the effect of forest management for timber on understory plant species diversity in temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management 303:81-90.
5. Eisenhauer, N., et al. 2016. Biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science 27:1061-1070.
6. Elahi, R., M. I. O'Connor, J. E. Byrnes, J. Dunic, B. K. Eriksson, M. J. Hensel, and P. J. Kearns. 2015. Recent trends in local-scale marine biodiversity reflect community structure and human impacts. Current Biology 25:1938-1943.
7. Gonzalez, A., B. J. Cardinale, G. R. H. Allington, J. E. Byrnes, K. A. Endsley, D. G. Brown, D. U. Hooper, F. Isbell, M. I. O'Connor, and M. Loreau. 2016. Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity. Ecology 97:1949-1960.
8. Haddad, N. M., L. A. Brudvig, J. Clobert, K. F. Davies, A. Gonzalez, R. D. Holt, T. E. Lovejoy, J. O. Sexton, M. P. Austin, and C. D. Collins. 2015. Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems. Science Advances 1: e1500052.
9. Halpern, C. B., and T. A. Spies. 1995. Plant species diversity in natural and managed forests of the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Applications 5:913-934.
10. Hooper, D. U., E. C. Adair, B. J. Cardinale, J. E. K. Byrnes, B. A. Hungate, K. L. Matulich, A. Gonzalez, J. E. Duffy, L. Gamfeldt, and M. I. O'Connor. 2012. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change. Nature 486:105-108.
11. Mackey, R. L., and D. J. Currie. 2001. The diversity-disturbance relationship: Is it generally strong and peaked? Ecology 82:3479-3492.
12. Magurran, A. E. 2016. How ecosystems change. Science 351:448-449.
13. Newbold, T., L. N. Hudson, S. L. Hill, S. Contu, I. Lysenko, R. A. Senior, L. Börger, D. J. Bennett, A. Choimes, and B. Collen. 2015. Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature 520:45-50.
14. Pauli, H., et al. 2012. Recent plant diversity changes on Europe's mountain summits. Science 336:353-355.
15. Sax, D. F., and S. D. Gaines. 2003. Species diversity: from global decreases to local increases. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:561-566.
16. Simkin, S. M., E. B. Allen, W. D. Bowman, C. M. Clark, J. Belnap, M. L. Brooks, B. S. Cade, S. L. Collins, L. H. Geiser, and F. S. Gilliam. 2016. Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113:4086-4091.
17. Supp, S. R., and S. K. Ernest. 2014. Species-level and community-level responses to disturbance: a cross-community analysis. Ecology 95:1717-1723.
18. Vellend, M., L. Baeten, A. Becker-Scarpitta, V. Boucher-Lalonde, J. L. McCune, J. Messier, I. H. Myers-Smith, and D. F. Sax. 2017. Plant biodiversity change across scales during the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Plant Biology 68, in press.
19. Vellend, M., L. Baeten, I. H. Myers-Smith, S. C. Elmendorf, R. Beauséjour, C. D. Brown, P. De Frenne, K. Verheyen, and S. Wipf. 2013. Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:19456-19459.
20. Winter, M., O. Schweiger, S. Klotz, W. Nentwig, P. Andriopoulos, M. Arianoutsou, C. Basnou, P. Delipetrou, V. Didẑiulis, and M. Hejda. 2009. Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:21721-21725.