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Elevational shifts, biotic homogenization and time lags in vegetation change during 40 years of climate warming by Savage, Josée, Vellend, Mark

“…Many species show evidence of climate-driven distribution shifts towards higher elevations, but given the tremendous variation among species and regions, we…”
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Non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change by Brown, Carissa D., Vellend, Mark

“…We are limited in our ability to predict climate-change-induced range shifts by our inadequate understanding of how non-climatic factors contribute to…”
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Effects of diversity on diversity: consequences of competition and facilitation by Vellend, Mark

“…Diversity in one group of species or genotypes is often correlated with diversity in a second group - prominent examples including native vs exotic species,…”
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Species Diversity and Genetic Diversity: Parallel Processes and Correlated Patterns by Vellend, Mark

“…Species diversity and genetic diversity may be correlated as a result of processes acting in parallel at the two levels. However, no theories predict the…”
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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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Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene by Vellend, Mark, Baeten, Lander, Becker-Scarpitta, Antoine, Boucher-Lalonde, Véronique, McCune, Jenny L, Messier, Julie, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Sax, Dov F

“…Plant communities have undergone dramatic changes in recent centuries, although not all such changes fit with the dominant biodiversity-crisis narrative used…”
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Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time by Vellend, Mark, Baeten, Lander, Myers-Smith, Isla H., Elmendorf, Sarah C., Beauséjour, Robin, Brown, Carissa D., De Frenne, Pieter, Verheyen, Kris, Wipf, Sonja

“…Global biodiversity is in decline. This is of concern for aesthetic and ethical reasons, but possibly also for practical reasons, as suggested by experimental…”
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consequences of genetic diversity in competitive communities by Vellend, Mark

“…Several lines of evidence suggest that the species diversity and composition of communities should depend on genetic diversity within component species, but…”
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Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland by Bernard-Verdier, Maud, Navas, Marie-Laure, Vellend, Mark, Violle, Cyrille, Fayolle, Adeline, Garnier, Eric

“…1. Understanding how environmental factors drive plant community assembly remains a major challenge in community ecology. The strength of different assembly…”
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Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies by De Frenne, Pieter, Zellweger, Florian, Rodríguez-Sánchez, Francisco, Scheffers, Brett R., Hylander, Kristoffer, Luoto, Miska, Vellend, Mark, Verheyen, Kris, Lenoir, Jonathan

“…Macroclimate warming is often assumed to occur within forests despite the potential for tree cover to modify microclimates. Here, using paired measurements, we…”
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Gains in native species promote biotic homogenization over four decades in a human-dominated landscape by McCune, Jenny L., Vellend, Mark

“…1. A long-term perspective is needed to understand how disturbance is affecting plant communities in human-dominated landscapes. Increased human disturbance…”
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Stronger influence of anthropogenic disturbance than climate change on century-scale compositional changes in northern forests by Danneyrolles, Victor, Dupuis, Sébastien, Fortin, Gabriel, Leroyer, Marie, de Römer, André, Terrail, Raphaële, Vellend, Mark, Boucher, Yan, Laflamme, Jason, Bergeron, Yves, Arseneault, Dominique

“…Predicting future ecosystem dynamics depends critically on an improved understanding of how disturbances and climate change have driven long-term ecological…”
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Connections between species diversity and genetic diversity by Vellend, Mark, Geber, Monica A.

“…Species diversity and genetic diversity remain the nearly exclusive domains of community ecology and population genetics, respectively, despite repeated…”
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Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change by Norberg, Jon, Urban, Mark C., Vellend, Mark, Klausmeier, Christopher A., Loeuille, Nicolas

“…This study describes the development of a multi-species model used to explore the integrated eco-evolutionary responses to climate change. The results should…”
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Ecological consequences of genetic diversity by Hughes, A. Randall, Inouye, Brian D, Johnson, Marc T.J, Underwood, Nora, Vellend, Mark

“…Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge. Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has…”
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Drawing ecological inferences from coincident patterns of population‐ and community‐level biodiversity by Vellend, Mark, Lajoie, Geneviève, Bourret, Audrey, Múrria, Cesc, Kembel, Steven W, Garant, Dany

“…Biodiversity is comprised of genetic and phenotypic variation among individual organisms, which might belong to the same species or to different species…”
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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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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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The unseen invaders: introduced earthworms as drivers of change in plant communities in North American forests (a meta‐analysis) by Craven, Dylan, Thakur, Madhav P., Cameron, Erin K., Frelich, Lee E., Beauséjour, Robin, Blair, Robert B., Blossey, Bernd, Burtis, James, Choi, Amy, Dávalos, Andrea, Fahey, Timothy J., Fisichelli, Nicholas A., Gibson, Kevin, Handa, I. Tanya, Hopfensperger, Kristine, Loss, Scott R., Nuzzo, Victoria, Maerz, John C., Sackett, Tara, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Smith, Sandy M., Vellend, Mark, Umek, Lauren G., Eisenhauer, Nico

“…Globally, biological invasions can have strong impacts on biodiversity as well as ecosystem functioning. While less conspicuous than introduced aboveground…”
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Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities by Dornelas, Maria, Magurran, Anne E., Buckland, Stephen T., Chao, Anne, Chazdon, Robin L., Colwell, Robert K., Curtis, Tom, Gaston, Kevin J., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Kosnik, Matthew A., McGill, Brian, McCune, Jenny L., Morlon, Hélène, Mumby, Peter J., Øvreås, Lise, Studeny, Angelika, Vellend, Mark

“…Growing concern about biodiversity loss underscores the need to quantify and understand temporal change. Here, we review the opportunities presented by…”
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