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The conflict between adaptation and dispersal for maintaining biodiversity in changing environments by Thompson, Patrick L., Fronhofer, Emanuel A.

“…Dispersal and adaptation both allow species to persist in changing environments. Yet, we have limited understanding of how these processes interact to affect…”
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A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology by Thompson, Patrick L., Guzman, Laura Melissa, De Meester, Luc, Horváth, Zsófia, Ptacnik, Robert, Vanschoenwinkel, Bram, Viana, Duarte S., Chase, Jonathan M., Calcagno, Vincent

“…The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept…”
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Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research by Gonzalez, Andrew, Germain, Rachel M., Srivastava, Diane S., Filotas, Elise, Dee, Laura E., Gravel, Dominique, Thompson, Patrick L., Isbell, Forest, Wang, Shaopeng, Kéfi, Sonia, Montoya, Jose, Zelnik, Yuval R., Loreau, Michel, Brose, Ulrich

“…A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily focused on small scales. We review the current theory and…”
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Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales by Isbell, Forest, Gonzalez, Andrew, Loreau, Michel, Cowles, Jane, Díaz, Sandra, Hector, Andy, Mace, Georgina M., Wardle, David A., O'Connor, Mary I., Duffy, J. Emmett, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Thompson, Patrick L., Larigauderie, Anne

“…Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in…”
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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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Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application by Loreau, Michel, Barbier, Matthieu, Filotas, Elise, Gravel, Dominique, Isbell, Forest, Miller, Steve J., Montoya, Jose M., Wang, Shaopeng, Aussenac, Raphaël, Germain, Rachel, Thompson, Patrick L., Gonzalez, Andrew, Dee, Laura E.

“…ABSTRACT Biological insurance theory predicts that, in a variable environment, aggregate ecosystem properties will vary less in more diverse communities…”
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Ecosystem multifunctionality in metacommunities by Thompson, Patrick L., Gonzalez, Andrew

“…Ecosystem multifunctionality, the simultaneous production of multiple ecosystem functions, depends on community diversity, composition, productivity, and…”
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Warming shifts top-down and bottom-up control of pond food web structure and function by Shurin, Jonathan B., Clasen, Jessica L., Greig, Hamish S., Kratina, Pavel, Thompson, Patrick L.

“…The effects of global and local environmental changes are transmitted through networks of interacting organisms to shape the structure of communities and the…”
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Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene by Taranu, Zofia E., Gregory-Eaves, Irene, Leavitt, Peter R., Bunting, Lynda, Buchaca, Teresa, Catalan, Jordi, Domaizon, Isabelle, Guilizzoni, Piero, Lami, Andrea, McGowan, Suzanne, Moorhouse, Heather, Morabito, Giuseppe, Pick, Frances R., Stevenson, Mark A., Thompson, Patrick L., Vinebrooke, Rolf D.

“…Increases in atmospheric temperature and nutrients from land are thought to be promoting the expansion of harmful cyanobacteria in lakes worldwide, yet to date…”
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Ecosystem functions across trophic levels are linked to functional and phylogenetic diversity by Thompson, Patrick L, Davies, T Jonathan, Gonzalez, Andrew

“…In experimental systems, it has been shown that biodiversity indices based on traits or phylogeny can outperform species richness as predictors of plant…”
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Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities by Kratina, Pavel, Greig, Hamish S, Thompson, Patrick L, Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana S. A, Shurin, Jonathan B

“…Climate warming is occurring in concert with other anthropogenic changes to ecosystems. However, it is unknown whether and how warming alters the importance of…”
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Coding for Life: Designing a Platform for Projecting and Protecting Global Biodiversity by Urban, Mark C, Travis, Justin M J, Zurell, Damaris, Thompson, Patrick L, Synes, Nicholas W, Scarpa, Alice, Peres-Neto, Pedro R, Malchow, Anne-Kathleen, James, Patrick M A, Gravel, Dominique, De Meester, Luc, Brown, Calum, Bocedi, Greta, Albert, Cécile H, Gonzalez, Andrew, Hendry, Andrew P

“…Abstract Time is running out to limit further devastating losses of biodiversity and nature's contributions to humans. Addressing this crisis requires accurate…”
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Warming, eutrophication, and predator loss amplify subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems by Greig, Hamish S., Kratina, Pavel, Thompson, Patrick L., Palen, Wendy J., Richardson, John S., Shurin, Jonathan B.

“…The exchange of organisms and energy among ecosystems has major impacts on food web structure and dynamics, yet little is known about how climate warming…”
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Correction: Ecosystem Functions across Trophic Levels Are Linked to Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity by Thompson, Patrick L, Davies, T Jonathan, Gonzalez, Andrew

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117595.]…”
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Warming induces synchrony and destabilizes experimental pond zooplankton metacommunities by Thompson, Patrick L, Beisner, Beatrix E, Gonzalez, Andrew

“…The spatial insurance hypothesis predicts that intermediate rates of dispersal between patches in a metacommunity allow species to track favourable conditions,…”
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Signatures of the collapse and incipient recovery of an overexploited marine ecosystem by Pedersen, Eric J., Thompson, Patrick L., Ball, R. Aaron, Fortin, Marie-Josée, Gouhier, Tarik C., Link, Heike, Moritz, Charlotte, Nenzen, Hedvig, Stanley, Ryan R. E., Taranu, Zofia E., Gonzalez, Andrew, Guichard, Frédéric, Pepin, Pierre

“…The Northwest Atlantic cod stocks collapsed in the early 1990s and have yet to recover, despite the subsequent establishment of a continuing fishing…”
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Nonlinear averaging of thermal experience predicts population growth rates in a thermally variable environment by Bernhardt, Joey R., Sunday, Jennifer M., Thompson, Patrick L., O'Connor, Mary I.

“…As thermal regimes change worldwide, projections of future population and species persistence often require estimates of how population growth rates depend on…”
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The strength of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship depends on spatial scale by Thompson, Patrick L, Isbell, Forest, Loreau, Michel, O'Connor, Mary I, Gonzalez, Andrew

“…Our understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) applies mainly to fine spatial scales. New research is required if…”
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Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change by Thompson, Patrick L., Gonzalez, Andrew

“…Ecological networks, such as food webs, mutualist webs and host–parasite webs, are reorganizing as species abundances and spatial distributions shift in…”
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An improved null model for assessing the net effects of multiple stressors on communities by Thompson, Patrick L., MacLennan, Megan M., Vinebrooke, Rolf D.

“…Ecological stressors (i.e., environmental factors outside their normal range of variation) can mediate each other through their interactions, leading to…”
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