Shane A. Blowes

1 month ago | nature.com | Qingqing Chen |Shane A. Blowes |W. Stanley Harpole |Elizabeth T. Borer |Jason P. Martina |Jonathan D. Bakker | +29 more

AbstractNutrient enrichment typically causes local plant diversity declines. A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment also reduces variation in nutrient conditions among localities and selects for a smaller pool of species, causing greater diversity declines at larger than local scales and thus biotic homogenization.

2 months ago | nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stav Gelber |Shane A. Blowes |Jonathan Chase |Andreas Huth

Introduction Land use change is a dominant driver of biodiversity change with often negative effects on ecosystem services (Sala et al. 2000, Hasan et al. 2020, Jaureguiberry et al. 2022). Land use change modifies both the amount of remaining natural habitat as well as its spatial configuration (Fahrig 2003, Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007).

Sep 22, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Daniel McGlinn |Shane A. Blowes |Maria Dornelas |Thore Engel

AbstractThere is considerable interest in understanding patterns of β-diversity that measure the amount of change in species composition through space or time. Most hypotheses for β-diversity evoke nonrandom processes that generate spatial and temporal within species aggregation; however, β-diversity can also be driven by random sampling processes.