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A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...

How ancient rifting reshaped the island's landscape and helped forge one of Earth's richest biodiversity hotspots.

We show that species richness and community trait composition on 132 Australian islands remained stable over six decades, despite high species turnover. Colonisation and extinction probabilities were....

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

A key test of an ecological model is whether it can quantitatively predict unseen aspects of the data not used in model fitting. Here, we test whether a model fitted only to island alpha diversity ca....

The International Biogeography Society and Aarhus University are excited to welcome you to the 12th Biannual Conference in Aarhus, the city of Smiles.

Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...

In an era of unprecedented biodiversity loss, the need for standardized practices to describe biological variation is becoming increasingly importa...

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00049-6Glaciers are retreating with global climate warming, which threatens glacier specialists and the functions and stability of glaciers and glacially influenced ecosystems. This Review describes the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity, highlighting species that are likely to thrive or decline with glacier loss, and outlines key challenges and research priorities in conserving and managing biodiversity.

Landscapes Live is a weekly online seminar series freely accessible to the international scientific community interested in various aspects of geomorphology. Our talks take place on Zoom every Thursda...

Biological invasions are profoundly altering Earth’s ecosystems, but generalities about the effects of nonnative species on the diversity and produ...