- Tytuł:
- Six decades of losses and gains in Alpha diversity of European plant communities
- Autorzy:
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Lenoir, Jonathan
Svenning, Jens‐Christian
De Sanctis, Michele
Dziuba, Tetiana
Biurrun, Idoia
Keil, Petr
Rumpf, Sabine B.
Sanz‐Zubizarreta, Irati
Illa, Estela
Essl, Franz
Clark, Adam Thomas
Bruelheide, Helge
De Frenne, Pieter
Swacha, Grzegorz
Silva, Vasco
Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold
Chytrý, Milan
Jentsch, Anke
Dullinger, Stefan
Chiarucci, Alessandro
Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja
Jandt, Ute
Pielech, Remigiusz
Argagnon, Olivier
Dengler, Jürgen
Divíšek, Jan
Ejrnæs, Rasmus
Vynokurov, Denys
Garbolino, Emmanuel
Napoleone, Francesca
Večeřa, Martin
Ćušterevska, Renata
Midolo, Gabriele - Opis:
- Biodiversity change forecasts rely on long-term time series, but such data are often scarce in space and time. Here, we interpolated spatiotemporal changes in species richness using a new method based on machine learning that does not require temporal replication at sites. Using 698,692 one-time sampled vegetation plots, we estimated trends in vascular plant alpha diversity across Europe and validated our approach against 22,852 independent time series. We found an overall near-zero net change in species richness between 1960 and 2020. However, species richness generally declined from 1960 to 1980 and increased from 2000 to 2020 across habitats. Declines were most pronounced in forests, but trends varied across habitats and regions, with overall increases at higher latitudes and elevations, and declines or stable trends elsewhere. Our findings demonstrate how data without temporal replication can be used to reveal context-dependent biodiversity dynamics, underscoring their importance for conservation and management.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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