Search Results - "Blowes, Shane A."

The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages by Blowes, Shane A, Supp, Sarah R, Antão, Laura H, Bates, Amanda, Bruelheide, Helge, Chase, Jonathan M, Moyes, Faye, Magurran, Anne, McGill, Brian, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, Anne D, Bowler, Diana E, Byrnes, Jarrett E K, Gonzalez, Andrew, Hines, Jes, Isbell, Forest, Jones, Holly P, Navarro, Laetitia M, Thompson, Patrick L, Vellend, Mark, Waldock, Conor, Dornelas, Maria

“…Human activities are fundamentally altering biodiversity. Projections of declines at the global scale are contrasted by highly variable trends at local scales,…”
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Embracing scale‐dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities by Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, Brian J., McGlinn, Daniel J., May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A., Xiao, Xiao, Knight, Tiffany M., Purschke, Oliver, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Adler, Frederick

“…Because biodiversity is multidimensional and scale‐dependent, it is challenging to estimate its change. However, it is unclear (1) how much scale‐dependence…”
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Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change by Daskalova, Gergana N., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Bjorkman, Anne D., Blowes, Shane A., Supp, Sarah R., Magurran, Anne E., Dornelas, Maria

“…Land-use change and forest biodiversity Land-use change by humans, particularly forest loss, is influencing Earth's biodiversity through time. To assess the…”
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Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small by Shade, Ashley, Dunn, Robert R., Blowes, Shane A., Keil, Petr, Bohannan, Brendan J.M., Herrmann, Martina, Küsel, Kirsten, Lennon, Jay T., Sanders, Nathan J., Storch, David, Chase, Jonathan

“…Macroecology is the study of the mechanisms underlying general patterns of ecology across scales. Research in microbial ecology and macroecology have long been…”
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Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series by Xu, Wu-Bing, Blowes, Shane A., Brambilla, Viviana, Chow, Cher F. Y., Fontrodona-Eslava, Ada, Martins, Inês S., McGlinn, Daniel, Moyes, Faye, Sagouis, Alban, Shimadzu, Hideyasu, van Klink, Roel, Magurran, Anne E., Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Dornelas, Maria, Chase, Jonathan M.

“…While human activities are known to elicit rapid turnover in species composition through time, the properties of the species that increase or decrease their…”
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Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness by Blowes, Shane A., Daskalova, Gergana N., Dornelas, Maria, Engel, Thore, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Magurran, Anne E., Martins, Inês S., McGill, Brian, McGlinn, Daniel J., Sagouis, Alban, Shimadzu, Hideyasu, Supp, Sarah R., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Biodiversity metrics often integrate data on the presence and abundance of multiple species. Yet our understanding of covariation between changes to the…”
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Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale‐dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change by McGlinn, Daniel J., Xiao, Xiao, May, Felix, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., Knight, Tiffany M., Purschke, Oliver, Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, Brian J., Orme, David

“…Little consensus has emerged regarding how proximate and ultimate drivers such as productivity, disturbance and temperature may affect species richness and…”
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A multiscale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation on diversity gradients by McGlinn, Daniel J., Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Knight, Tiffany M., McGill, Brian J., Sanders, Nathan J., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Disentangling the drivers of diversity gradients can be challenging. The Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB) framework decomposes scale-dependent changes in…”
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Long‐term changes in temperate marine fish assemblages are driven by a small subset of species by Gotelli, Nicholas J., Moyes, Faye, Antão, Laura H., Blowes, Shane A., Dornelas, Maria, McGill, Brian J., Penny, Amelia, Schipper, Aafke M., Shimadzu, Hideyasu, Supp, Sarah R., Waldock, Conor A., Magurran, Anne E.

“…The species composition of plant and animal assemblages across the globe has changed substantially over the past century. How do the dynamics of individual…”
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Accounting for effects of growth rate when measuring ecological stability in response to pulse perturbations by Mentges, Andrea, Clark, Adam Thomas, Blowes, Shane A., Kunze, Charlotte, Hillebrand, Helmut, Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Ecological stability is a vital component of natural ecosystems that can inform effective conservation and ecosystem management. Furthermore, there is…”
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Detecting Thresholds of Ecological Change in the Anthropocene by Spake, Rebecca, Barajas-Barbosa, Martha Paola, Blowes, Shane A, Bowler, Diana E, Callaghan, Corey T, Garbowski, Magda, Jurburg, Stephanie D, van Klink, Roel, Korell, Lotte, Ladouceur, Emma, Rozzi, Roberto, Viana, Duarte S, Xu, Wu-Bing, Chase, Jonathan M

“…Ecological thresholds comprise relatively fast changes in ecological conditions, with respect to time or external drivers, and are an attractive concept in…”
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Synthesis of recovery patterns in microbial communities across environments by Jurburg, Stephanie D, Blowes, Shane A, Shade, Ashley, Eisenhauer, Nico, Chase, Jonathan M

“…Disturbances alter the diversity and composition of microbial communities. Yet a generalized empirical assessment of microbiome responses to disturbance across…”
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Six years of demography data for 11 reef coral species by Madin, Joshua S., Baird, Andrew H., Connolly, Sean R., Dornelas, Maria A., Álvarez‐Noriega, Mariana, McWilliam, Michael J., Barbosa, Miguel, Blowes, Shane A., Cetina‐Heredia, Paulina, Christie, Alec P., Cumbo, Vivian R., Diaz, Marcela, Emms, Madeleine A., Graham, Erin, Hansen, Dominique, Hisano, Mizue, Howells, Emily, Kuo, Chao‐Yang, Palmer, Caroline, Hong, James Tan Chun, Zhi En Teo, Theophilus, Woods, Rachael M.

“…Scleractinian corals are colonial animals with a range of life‐history strategies, making up diverse species assemblages that define coral reefs. We tagged and…”
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A meta‐analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age by Hollitzer, Helene A. L., May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A.

“…Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a well‐established conservation practice worldwide, but their effectiveness in protecting or replenishing fish biodiversity…”
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Using coverage‐based rarefaction to infer non‐random species distributions by Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., McGlinn, Daniel J., May, Felix, Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Understanding how species are non‐randomly distributed in space and how the resulting spatial structure responds to ecological, biogeographic, and…”
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Quantifying effort needed to estimate species diversity from citizen science data by Callaghan, Corey T., Bowler, Diana E., Blowes, Shane A., Chase, Jonathan M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Pereira, Henrique M.

“…Broad‐scale biodiversity monitoring relies, at least in part, on the efforts of citizen, or community, scientists. To ensure robust inferences from citizen…”
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How does variation in total and relative abundance contribute to gradients of species diversity? by Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., McGlinn, Daniel J., Gotelli, Nicholas J., McGill, Brian J., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Patterns of biodiversity provide insights into the processes that shape biological communities around the world. Variation in species diversity along…”
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Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss by Chase, Jonathan M., Blowes, Shane A., Knight, Tiffany M., Gerstner, Katharina, May, Felix

“…Although habitat loss is the predominant factor leading to biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene 1 , 2 , exactly how this loss manifests—and at which…”
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Effects of site‐selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change by Mentges, Andrea, Blowes, Shane A., Hodapp, Dorothee, Hillebrand, Helmut, Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Estimates of biodiversity change are essential for the management and conservation of ecosystems. Accurate estimates rely on selecting representative sites,…”
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A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales by Petsch, Danielle K., Blowes, Shane A., Melo, Adriano S., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…While land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change in streams, the nature of such changes, and at which scales they occur, have not been…”
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