Publication Details
Category Software Publication
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10460999
Licence creative commons licence
Title (Primary) sablowes/WhittakerBetaChange: v1.0
Author Blowes, S.A.; McGill, B.; Brambilla, V.; Chow, C.F.Y.; Engel, T.; Fontrodona-Eslava, A.; Martins, I.S.; McGlinn, D.; Moyes, F.; Sagouis, A.; Shimadzu, H.; van Klink, R.; Xu, W.-B.; Gotelli, N.J.; Magurran, A.; Dornelas, M.; Chase, J.M.
Source Titel Zenodo
Year 2024
Department iDiv; BioP
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Abstract It is commonly thought that the biodiversity crisis includes widespread declines in the spatial variation of species composition, called biotic homogenization. Using a typology relating homogenization and differentiation to local and regional diversity changes, we synthesize patterns across 461 metacommunities surveyed for 10 to 91 years, and 64 species checklists (13 to 500+ years). Across all datasets, we found that no change was the most common outcome, but with many instances of homogenization and differentiation. A weak homogenizing trend of a 0.3% increase in species shared among communities/year on average was driven by increased numbers of widespread (high occupancy) species and strongly associated with checklist data that have longer durations and large spatial scales. At smaller spatial and temporal scales, we show that homogenization and differentiation can be driven by changes in the number and spatial distributions of both rare and common species. The multiscale perspective introduced here can help identify scale-dependent drivers underpinning biotic differentiation and homogenization.
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Blowes, S.A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C.F.Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I.S., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Xu, W.-B., Gotelli, N.J., Magurran, A., Dornelas, M., Chase, J.M. (2024):
sablowes/WhittakerBetaChange: v1.0
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.10460999