Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe
Pilotto, Francesca; Kühn, Ingolf; Adrian, Rita; Alber, Renate; Alignier, Audrey; Andrews, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-272X; Bäck, Jaana; Barbaro, Luc; Beaumont, Deborah; Beenaerts, Natalie; Benham, Sue; Boukal, David S.; Bretagnolle, Vincent; Camatti, Elisa; Canullo, Roberto; Cardoso, Patricia G.; Ens, Bruno J.; Everaert, Gert; Evtimova, Vesela; Feuchtmayr, Heidrun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2028-4843; García-González, Ricardo; Gómez García, Daniel; Grandin, Ulf; Gutowski, Jerzy M.; Hadar, Liat; Halada, Lubos; Halassy, Melinda; Hummel, Herman; Huttunen, Kaisa-Leena; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Jensen, Thomas C.; Kalivoda, Henrik; Schmidt, Inger Kappel; Kröncke, Ingrid; Leinonen, Reima; Martinho, Filipe; Meesenburg, Henning; Meyer, Julia; Minerbi, Stefano; Monteith, Don ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3219-1772; Nikolov, Boris P.; Oro, Daniel; Ozoliņš, Dāvis; Padedda, Bachisio M.; Pallett, Denise; Pansera, Marco; Pardal, Miguel Ângelo; Petriccione, Bruno; Pipan, Tanja; Pöyry, Juha; Schafer, Stefanie M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8748-7725; Schaub, Marcus; Schneider, Susanne C.; Skuja, Agnija; Soetaert, Karline; Spriņģe, Gunta; Stanchev, Radoslav; Stockan, Jenni A.; Stoll, Stefan; Sundqvist, Lisa; Thimonier, Anne; Van Hoey, Gert; Van Ryckegem, Gunther; Visser, Marcel E.; Vorhauser, Samuel; Haase, Peter. 2020 Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe. Nature Communications, 11, 3486. 11, pp. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y
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Abstract/Summary
Local biodiversity trends over time are likely to be decoupled from global trends, as local processes may compensate or counteract global change. We analyze 161 long-term biological time series (15–91 years) collected across Europe, using a comprehensive dataset comprising ~6,200 marine, freshwater and terrestrial taxa. We test whether (i) local long-term biodiversity trends are consistent among biogeoregions, realms and taxonomic groups, and (ii) changes in biodiversity correlate with regional climate and local conditions. Our results reveal that local trends of abundance, richness and diversity differ among biogeoregions, realms and taxonomic groups, demonstrating that biodiversity changes at local scale are often complex and cannot be easily generalized. However, we find increases in richness and abundance with increasing temperature and naturalness as well as a clear spatial pattern in changes in community composition (i.e. temporal taxonomic turnover) in most biogeoregions of Northern and Eastern Europe.
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y |
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas: | Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-) Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-) Water Resources (Science Area 2017-) |
ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.: | Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link. |
Additional Keywords: | biodiversity, climate-change ecology, macroecology |
NORA Subject Terms: | Ecology and Environment |
Date made live: | 31 Jul 2020 13:17 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528263 |
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