What Shapes the Differences Between Freshwater Fish Communities Worldwide?
Freshwater ecosystems host a disproportionate share of global biodiversity, yet they are among the most fragmented and threatened systems on Earth. While global patterns of freshwater fish species richness are now relatively well documented, much less is known about what drives differences in community composition between river basins—that is, beta diversity. In a recent study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, we provide the first global, integrative analysis of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity in freshwater fishes, and disentangle the ecological and historical processes shaping these patterns across the world’s river basins
New paper accepted in Nature on global patterns of 'dark diversity' in plants
The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.
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New paper accepted in Ecology Letters
In this paper, we aim to understand the consequences of species composition changes on the functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds across the world
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