ReviewEcology letters2025
Six Decades of Losses and Gains in Alpha Diversity of European Plant Communities.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Synthesis of scale-dependent plant biodiversity change in climate warming experiments.Ecology · 2026Article
- Thermophilization: Concepts, Methods, and Implications of Changes in Community Composition due to Global Warming.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Habitat-specific trends in taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in European plant communities over a century.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation.Science advances · 2026Article
- Six Decades of Losses and Gains in Alpha Diversity of European Plant Communities.Ecology letters · 2025Review
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Abstract
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.
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