Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 169-184

  Hillebrand, Helmut ^a   Blasius, Bernd ^a   Borer, Elizabeth T ^b   Chase, Jonathan M ^c,d   Downing, John A ^e   Eriksson, Britas Klemens ^f   Filstrup, Christopher T ^e   Harpole, W Stanley ^c,d,g   Hodapp, Dorothee ^a   Larsen, Stefano ^c   Lewandowska, Aleksandra M ^a   Seabloom, Eric W ^b   Van de Waal, Dedmer B ^h   Ryabov, Alexey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^h NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

biodiversity change; biodiversity loss; diversity; dominance; human impact; monitoring; richness; species composition; species turnover; time series

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; IMMIGRATION; POLICY APPROACH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; TURNOVER;

EID: 85026557100     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12959     Document Type: Article

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