Gianalberto Losapio et al. addressed the effects of #GlacierRetreat on plant functional diversity by integrating plant traits with ecological indicator values across a 140-year chronosequence in a subalpine glacier landscape.
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💡 Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat
Results:
Glacier retreat ➡️ Functional richness & functional dispersion ⬇️, functional evenness & functional divergence ⬆️
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat
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Open access article led by Lucie Kuczynski shows that caution is required when analysing temporal trends in species richness: net imbalance between colonisation and extinction will bias towards positive slopes as shown by data and neutral simulations. As long as environmental conditions change, the absence of a trend in richness is no good news as it deviates negatively from the expected increase.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02078-w
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There is great interest in describing biodiversity change through time, but such analyses present various technical challenges. Here, using datasets for fish and birds, the authors show that a bias towards colonization over extinction can result in an increasing species richness over time, especially in short time series, and argue that studies should account for this bias.
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Journal of Plant Ecology
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