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A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity by Roswell, Michael, Dushoff, Jonathan, Winfree, Rachael

“…Three metrics of species diversity – species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson index – are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid…”
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Moving beyond noninformative priors: why and how to choose weakly informative priors in Bayesian analyses by Lemoine, Nathan P.

“…Throughout the last two decades, Bayesian statistical methods have proliferated throughout ecology and evolution. Numerous previous references established both…”
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Towards an urban marine ecology: characterizing the drivers, patterns and processes of marine ecosystems in coastal cities by Todd, Peter A., Heery, Eliza C., Loke, Lynette H. L., Thurstan, Ruth H., Kotze, D. Johan, Swan, Christopher

“…Human population density within 100 km of the sea is approximately three times higher than the global average. People in this zone are concentrated in coastal…”
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Belowground community responses to fire: meta‐analysis reveals contrasting responses of soil microorganisms and mesofauna by Pressler, Yamina, Moore, John C., Cotrufo, M. Francesca

“…Global fire regimes are shifting due to climate and land use changes. Understanding the responses of belowground communities to fire is key to predicting…”
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Species richness change across spatial scales by Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, Brian J., Thompson, Patrick L., Antão, Laura H., Bates, Amanda E., Blowes, Shane A., Dornelas, Maria, Gonzalez, Andrew, Magurran, Anne E., Supp, Sarah R., Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bruelheide, Helge, Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, Elahi, Robin, Gomez, Catalina, Guzman, Hector M., Isbell, Forest, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Jones, Holly P., Hines, Jes, Vellend, Mark, Waldock, Conor, O'Connor, Mary

“…Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of…”
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Effects of grazing intensity on plant richness and diversity: a meta‐analysis by Herrero‐Jáuregui, Cristina, Oesterheld, Martín

“…Most of our knowledge of the effect of grazing on grassland structure is based on grazed–ungrazed contrasts. The effects of grazing in the most common…”
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Generalists are the most urban‐tolerant of birds: a phylogenetically controlled analysis of ecological and life history traits using a novel continuous measure of bird responses to urbanization by Callaghan, Corey T., Major, Richard E., Wilshire, John H., Martin, John M., Kingsford, Richard T., Cornwell, William K.

“…Identifying which ecological and life history traits influence a species’ tolerance to urbanization is critical to understanding the trajectory of biodiversity…”
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How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals by Ollerton, Jeff, Winfree, Rachael, Tarrant, Sam

“…It is clear that the majority of flowering plants are pollinated by insects and other animals, with a minority utilising abiotic pollen vectors, mainly wind…”
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Beyond species: why ecological interaction networks vary through space and time by Poisot, Timothée, Stouffer, Daniel B., Gravel, Dominique

“…Community ecology is tasked with the considerable challenge of predicting the structure, and properties, of emerging ecosystems. It requires the ability to…”
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Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest‐associated taxa in Europe by Ampoorter, Evy, Barbaro, Luc, Jactel, Hervé, Baeten, Lander, Boberg, Johanna, Carnol, Monique, Castagneyrol, Bastien, Charbonnier, Yohan, Dawud, Seid Muhie, Deconchat, Marc, Smedt, Pallieter De, Wandeler, Hans De, Guyot, Virginie, Hättenschwiler, Stephan, Joly, François‐Xavier, Koricheva, Julia, Milligan, Harriet, Muys, Bart, Nguyen, Diem, Ratcliffe, Sophia, Raulund‐Rasmussen, Karsten, Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael, van der Plas, Fons, Keer, J. Van, Verheyen, Kris, Vesterdal, Lars, Allan, Eric

“…Plant diversity is an important driver of diversity at other trophic levels, suggesting that cascading extinctions could reduce overall biodiversity. Most…”
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Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities by Vellend, Mark, Srivastava, Diane S., Anderson, Kathryn M., Brown, Carissa D., Jankowski, Jill E., Kleynhans, Elizabeth J., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Letaw, Alathea D., Macdonald, A. Andrew M., Maclean, Janet E., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Norris, Andrea R., Xue, Xinxin

“…A central current debate in community ecology concerns the relative importance of deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community structure…”
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Dispersal: a central and independent trait in life history by Bonte, Dries, Dahirel, Maxime

“…The study of tradeoffs among major life history components (age at maturity, lifespan and reproduction) allowed the development of a quantitative framework to…”
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Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks by Schwarz, Benjamin, Vázquez, Diego P., CaraDonna, Paul J., Knight, Tiffany M., Benadi, Gita, Dormann, Carsten F., Gauzens, Benoit, Motivans, Elena, Resasco, Julian, Blüthgen, Nico, Burkle, Laura A., Fang, Qiang, Kaiser‐Bunbury, Christopher N., Alarcón, Ruben, Bain, Justin A., Chacoff, Natacha P., Huang, Shuang‐Quan, LeBuhn, Gretchen, MacLeod, Molly, Petanidou, Theodora, Rasmussen, Claus, Simanonok, Michael P., Thompson, Amibeth H., Fründ, Jochen

“…The study of mutualistic interaction networks has led to valuable insights into ecological and evolutionary processes. However, our understanding of network…”
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Impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity: the role of species mobility, degree of specialisation and spatial scale by Concepción, Elena D, Moretti, Marco, Altermatt, Florian, Nobis, Michael P, Obrist, Martin K

“…Urbanisation has an important impact on biodiversity, mostly driving changes in species assemblages, through the replacement of specialist with generalist…”
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Ecologists should not use statistical significance tests to interpret simulation model results by White, J. Wilson, Rassweiler, Andrew, Samhouri, Jameal F., Stier, Adrian C., White, Crow

“…Simulation models are widely used to represent the dynamics of ecological systems. A common question with such models is how changes to a parameter value or…”
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The priority of prediction in ecological understanding by Houlahan, Jeff E., McKinney, Shawn T., Anderson, T. Michael, McGill, Brian J.

“…The objective of science is to understand the natural world; we argue that prediction is the only way to demonstrate scientific understanding, implying that…”
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Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests by Lloret, Francisco, Keeling, Eric G., Sala, Anna

“…Recent world-wide episodes of tree dieback have been attributed to increasing temperatures and associated drought. Because these events are likely to become…”
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A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction–naturalisation–invasion continuum by Daly, Ella Z., Chabrerie, Olivier, Massol, Francois, Facon, Benoit, Hess, Manon C.M., Tasiemski, Aurélie, Grandjean, Frédéric, Chauvat, Matthieu, Viard, Frédérique, Forey, Estelle, Folcher, Laurent, Buisson, Elise, Boivin, Thomas, Baltora‐Rosset, Sylvie, Ulmer, Romain, Gibert, Patricia, Thiébaut, Gabrielle, Pantel, Jelena H., Heger, Tina, Richardson, David M., Renault, David

“…With the advent of the Anthropocene, biological invasions have reached an unprecedented level, and the number of species introductions is still increasing in…”
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Dispersal and species' responses to climate change by Travis, Justin M. J., Delgado, Maria, Bocedi, Greta, Baguette, Michel, Bartoń, Kamil, Bonte, Dries, Boulangeat, Isabelle, Hodgson, Jenny A., Kubisch, Alexander, Penteriani, Vincenzo, Saastamoinen, Marjo, Stevens, Virginie M., Bullock, James M.

“…Dispersal is fundamental in determining biodiversity responses to rapid climate change, but recently acquired ecological and evolutionary knowledge is seldom…”
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Highly unsaturated fatty acids in nature: what we know and what we need to learn by Twining, Cornelia W., Brenna, J. Thomas, Hairston Jr, Nelson G., Flecker, Alexander S.

“…The supply and demand of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 HUFA) in natural ecosystems may lead to resource limitation in a diverse array of animal…”
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