Biodiversity in space and time

Global Biodiversity and Its Variation in Space and Time

Understanding How Biodiversity Is Distributed in Space and Time

Attention to biodiversity issues has been growing in the recent years. Despite the urgency of the problem, the development of a general theory of biodiversity is still underway. How can we develop such a theory? Two main approaches have dominated the field: the first approach has emphasized ecological controls of biodiversity, and has sought to explain static biodiversity patterns, often referr...

Patterns of biodiversity and limits to adaptation in time and space

Measuring and modelling biodiversity from space

The Earth is undergoing an accelerated rate of native ecosystem conversion and degradation and there is increased interest in measuring and modelling biodiversity from space. Biogeographers have a long-standing interest in measuring patterns of species occurrence and distributional movements and an interest in modelling species distributions and patterns of diversity. Much progress has been mad...

Bitrophic interactions shape biodiversity in space.

Ecologists and conservation biologists often study particular trophic groups in isolation, which precludes an explicit assessment of the impact of multitrophic interactions on community structure and dynamics. Network ecology helps to fill this gap by focusing on species interactions, but it often ignores spatial processes. Here, we are taking a step forward in the integration of metacommunity ...