ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2017
Biodiversity Models: What If Unsaturation Is the Rule?
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- Climate change-induced migration patterns and extinction risks of Theaceae species in China.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Unexpected fish diversity gradients in the Amazon basin.Science advances · 2019Article
- Land cover drives large scale productivity-diversity relationships in Irish vascular plants.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Multi-scale interplays of biotic and abiotic drivers shape mammalian sub-continental diversity over millions of years.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Improving biodiversity predictions is essential if we are to meet the challenges posed by global change. As knowledge is key to feed models, we need to evaluate how debated theory can affect models. An important ongoing debate is whether environmental constraints limit the number of species that can coexist in a community (saturation), with recent findings suggesting that species richness in many communities might be unsaturated. Here, we propose that biodiversity models could address this issue by accounting for a duality: considering communities as unsaturated but where species composition is constrained by different scale-dependent biodiversity drivers. We identify a variety of promising advances for incorporating this duality into commonly applied biodiversity modelling approaches and improving their spatial predictions.
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