🌲 Common #biodiversity metrics may miss key signals of change. By partitioning #betadiversity into species loss and turnover, this study from #Sweden shows how #habitatdegradation drives biotic homogenisation across spatial scales.

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🌊 New study reveals how #ReefFish assemblages shift across a thermal transition zone along the eastern Brazilian coast, indicating that both #OceanWarming and #Overfishing are reshaping reef #Biodiversity.

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#MarineEcology #BetaDiversity #ClimateChange

The pace and drivers of community change vary over space and time – findings from a national biomonitoring programme vist.ly/32xet #BetaDiversity #ClimateChange

Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US vist.ly/32j8j #BetaDiversity #PhylogeneticDiversity

Jaccard dissimilarity in stochastic community models based on the species-independence assumption vist.ly/3zrzk #BetaDiversity #NullModels #SDM

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Tropical #CoralReefs host rich hidden biodiversity. Our study shows how deterministic & stochastic processes shape sessile #cryptobenthic communities at multiple spatial scales around Réunion Island—key insights for reef conservation! #Betadiversity #ARMS bit.ly/meps_761_21

Habitat heterogeneity overrides local processes to drive the species–area relationship of benthic macroinvertebrates in shallow floodplain lakes vist.ly/3n5uvix #SAR #Betadiversity #Island #Biogoegraphy

Is biodiversity conservation a science, a form of stewardship, or perhaps an art?
Artist and activist Haley Mellin shows how it can be all three. 🎨🌏▶️ Watch her full keynote, where she passionately inspires action for #Conservation: buff.ly/6C2FMCf

#Bioneers2025 #Biodiversity #BetaDiversity

Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests vist.ly/3myraue #Alphadiversity #Betadiversity

#newpaper: A research team, including scientists from the LIB, has gained new insights into the beta diversity of arthropods 🐝
➡️ Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#biodiversity #betadiversity #lib #arthropods

We are hosting a MEE live! Join Lydia Morley and find out more about using betadiversity to capture key features of generalized relationships 🧪

⏰17th May 14:30 BST, 09:30 EST

You can find more information and register here 👉
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Out in this month's issue of Ecology as part of their Pandemic Caregivers special issue... @restoration.bsky.social and I explore the impacts of #YearEffects on #BetaDiversity.

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Dispersal-driven homogenisation of #wetland vegetation revealed from local contributions to #betadiversity http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvs.12546/full