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A bird pollinator shows positive frequency dependence and constancy of species choice in natural plant communities

scientific article

A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals

scientific article

A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

article

A framework integrating physiology, dispersal and land-use to project species ranges under climate change

A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems

scientific article published on 30 January 2021

A tale of two seasons: The link between seasonal migration and climatic niches in passerine birds

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

scientific article

Abiotic and biotic drivers of functional diversity and functional composition of bird and bat assemblages along a tropical elevation gradient

scientific article published on 04 September 2021

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing‐based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain

scientific article published on 05 December 2021

At a loss for birds: insularity increases asymmetry in seed-dispersal networks

scientific article published in 2013

Attitudes towards returning wolves (Canis lupus) in Germany: Exposure, information sources and trust matter

scientific article published in June 2019

Avian Community Dynamics Are Discordant in Space and Time

article

Avian Community Dynamics Are Discordant in Space and Time

Avian diversity in a Kenyan agroecosystem: effects of habitat structure and proximity to forest

Avian seed dispersal may be insufficient for plants to track future temperature change on tropical mountains

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Bats are Not Birds - Different Responses to Human Land-use on a Tropical Mountain

scientific article published on 04 June 2015

Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2021

Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

scientific article

Biodiversity, scenery and infrastructure: Factors driving wildlife tourism in an African savannah national park

scholarly article by Claudia Grünewald et al published September 2016 in Biological Conservation

Bioenergy cropland expansion may offset positive effects of climate change mitigation for global vertebrate diversity

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Biotic interactions and seed deposition rather than abiotic factors determine recruitment at elevational range limits of an alpine tree

scientific article published on 03 July 2017

Bird diversity and seed dispersal along a human land-use gradient: high seed removal in structurally simple farmland

scientific article

Birds protected by national legislation show improved population trends in Eastern Europe

Challenges in the conservation of wide‐ranging nomadic species

scientific article published on 2 April 2019

Changes in Species Abundance, Distribution, and Diversity in a Central European Bird Community

Changes in abundances of forest understorey birds on Africa's highest mountain suggest subtle effects of climate change

scientific article published in 2015

Climate-land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

article

Coexistence of plant species in a biodiversity hotspot is stabilized by competition but not by seed predation

article

Complementary ecosystem services provided by pest predators and pollinators increase quantity and quality of coffee yields

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

Consequences of frugivore diversity for seed dispersal, seedling establishment and the spatial pattern of seedlings and trees

scientific article published on November 2001

Conservation value of forest plantations for bird communities in western Kenya

article

Constant properties of plant-frugivore networks despite fluctuations in fruit and bird communities in space and time

scientific article

Constraints on dispersal and the evolution of the avifauna of the Northern Hemisphere

Continent-scale global change attribution in European birds - combining annual and decadal time scales.

scientific article

Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010.

scientific article

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Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends

article

Cross-taxa generalities in the relationship between population abundance and ambient temperatures

scientific article published in September 2017

Different foraging preferences of hummingbirds on artificial and natural flowers reveal mechanisms structuring plant-pollinator interactions

scientific article

Different responses of taxonomic and functional bird diversity to forest fragmentation across an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Direct and indirect effects of climate, human disturbance and plant traits on avian functional diversity

article

Direct and indirect effects of elevation, climate and vegetation structure on bird communities on a tropical mountain

scientific article published in 2020

Direct and indirect effects of plant and frugivore diversity on structural and functional components of fruit removal by birds

article

Direct and plant-mediated effects of climate on bird diversity in tropical mountains

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Disentangling the effects of multiple environmental drivers on population changes within communities.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Distinct carbon sources indicate strong differentiation between tropical forest and farmland bird communities

scientific article

Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive ⬇️

scientific article published on May 30, 2013

Do seed dispersers matter? A biogeographical approach

scholarly article

Does Forest Fragmentation and Selective Logging Affect Seed Predators and Seed Predation Rates of Prunus africana (Rosaceae)?

scientific article published in 2007

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2016)

Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed-dispersal networks

scientific article

Ecomorphological predictors of natal dispersal distances in birds.

scientific article published on 24 November 2008

Effects of climate and land-use change on species abundance in a Central European bird community

scientific article

Effects of local disturbance of tropical forests on frugivores and seed removal of a small-seeded afrotropical tree

scientific article

Effects of phylogeny and geography on ecomorphological traits in passerine bird clades

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Elevation-dependent effects of forest fragmentation on plant-bird interaction networks in the tropical Andes

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Enhanced seed dispersal of Prunus africana in fragmented and disturbed forests?

scientific article published on 3 December 2005

Environmental context determines the limiting demographic processes for plant recruitment across a species' elevational range

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Evolution of avian clutch size along latitudinal gradients: do seasonality, nest predation or breeding season length matter?

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

Exotic Guavas are Foci of Forest Regeneration in Kenyan Farmland

Experience drives innovation of new migration patterns of whooping cranes in response to global change

scientific article

Fine-scale spatial genetic dynamics over the life cycle of the tropical tree Prunus africana

scientific article

Floral color change and the attraction of insect pollinators in lungwort (Pulmonaria collina).

scientific article published in November 1999

Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness

scientific article

Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds

scientific article published in 2014

Forest fragmentation and selective logging have inconsistent effects on multiple animal-mediated ecosystem processes in a tropical forest

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Fragmentation and local disturbance of forests reduce frugivore diversity and fruit removal in Ficus thonningii trees

scientific article published in 2008

Frugivore diversity increases frugivory rates along a large elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2015

Frugivores and seed dispersal (1985–2010); the ‘seeds’ dispersed, established and matured

scientific article published in 2011

Frugivores and seed dispersal: mechanisms and consequences for biodiversity of a key ecological interaction

scientific article published on 17 November 2010

Fruit size, crop mass, and plant height explain differential fruit choice of primates and birds

scientific article published on 19 May 2010

Functional and phylogenetic diversity and assemblage structure of frugivorous birds along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes

scholarly article by D. Matthias Dehling et al published February 2014 in Ecography

Functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are filtered by different biotic factors on tropical mountains

Functional importance of avian seed dispersers changes in response to human-induced forest edges in tropical seed-dispersal networks

scientific article

Functional relationships beyond species richness patterns: trait matching in plant-bird mutualisms across scales

article

Functional responses of avian frugivores to variation in fruit resources between natural and fragmented forests

article

Functional structure and specialization in three tropical plant-hummingbird interaction networks across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica

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Functionally specialised birds respond flexibly to seasonal changes in fruit availability

scientific article

Global and regional ecological boundaries drive abrupt changes in avian frugivory interactions

Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions ⬇️

journal article from 'Nature Communications' published in 2022

Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems

article

Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird-flower networks

Global patterns of thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change remain robust irrespective of varying data suitability criteria

scientific article published in May 2017

Global variation in thermal physiology of birds and mammals: evidence for phylogenetic niche conservatism only in the tropics

article

Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

scientific article published in August 2014

High Bird Species Diversity in Structurally Heterogeneous Farmland in Western Kenya

scholarly article by Ronald K. Mulwa et al published 14 May 2012 in Biotropica

High seedling recruitment of indigenous tree species in forest plantations in Kakamega Forest, western Kenya

scholarly article by Nina Farwig et al published January 2009 in Forest Ecology and Management

How colorful are fruits? Limited color diversity in fleshy fruits on local and global scales

scientific article

How to do biodiversity-related science communication

Human Land-Use Practices Lead to Global Long-Term Increases in Photosynthetic Capacity

scholarly article by Thomas Mueller et al published 18 June 2014 in Remote Sensing

Human impact diminishes seedling species richness in Kakamega Forest, Kenya

scientific article published in 2008

Importance of Primary and Secondary Seed Dispersal in the Malagasy Tree Commiphora guillaumini

scientific article published in 1999

Importance of animal and plant traits for fruit removal and seedling recruitment in a tropical forest

article

Improving the community-temperature index as a climate change indicator

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Individualistic responses of bird species to environmental change.

scientific article

Influence of habitat complexity and landscape configuration on pollination and seed-dispersal interactions of wild cherry trees

scientific article

Insect conservation in agricultural landscapes: An outlook for policy-relevant research ⬇️

scholarly article

Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics.

scientific article

Intra-generic species richness and dispersal ability interact to determine geographic ranges of birds

article

Large frugivorous birds facilitate functional connectivity of fragmented landscapes

scientific article published in 2014

Large mammal diversity matters for wildlife tourism in Southern African Protected Areas: Insights for management

scholarly article by Ugo Arbieu et al published June 2018 in Ecosystem services

Life history variation across a riverine landscape: intermediate levels of disturbance favor sexual reproduction in the ant-dispersed herbRanunculus ficaria

scientific article published in 2008

Life-history of two African Sylvia warblers: low annual fecundity and long post-fledging care

scientific article published in 2004

Linking Land-Use Scenarios, Remote Sensing and Monitoring to Project Impact of Management Decisions

Long-term declines of European insectivorous bird populations and potential causes

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Low fruit set in a dioecious tree: pollination ecology of <i>Commiphora harveyi</i> in South Africa

scientific article published in 2005

Macroecology meets IPBES

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Macroecology meets IPBES

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Macroecology meets global change research

scientific article published in 2007

Macroecology of habitat choice in long-distance migratory birds

scientific article published on 26 July 2003

Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

scientific article

Meta-analysis of the effects of human disturbance on seed dispersal by animals

scientific article

Mismatches between supply and demand in wildlife tourism: Insights for assessing cultural ecosystem services

scholarly article by Ugo Arbieu et al published July 2017 in Ecological Indicators

Morphological trait matching shapes plant-frugivore networks across the Andes

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Morphological traits determine specialization and resource use in plant–hummingbird networks in the neotropics

article

Morphology predicts species' functional roles and their degree of specialization in plant-frugivore interactions

scientific article published in January 2016

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements.

scientific article published in January 2018

Nest predation is little affected by parental behaviour and nest site in two African Sylvia warblers

scientific article published in 2005

Niche availability in space and time: migration inSylviawarblers

Nomadism and seasonal range expansion in a large frugivorous bird

scientific article published in 2014

Non-material contributions of wildlife to human well-being: a systematic review

scholarly article by Joel Methorst et al published 27 August 2020 in Environmental Research Letters

Oases in the Sahara Desert–Linking biological and cultural diversity

scientific article published in 2023

Opposed latitudinal patterns of network-derived and dietary specialization in avian plant-frugivore interaction systems

article

Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework

scientific article published in May 2021

Patterns of drilling predation on gastropods of the family Turritellidae in the Gulf of California

scientific article published in 1993

Perturbed partners: opposite responses of plant and animal mutualist guilds to inundation disturbances

article

Phenological Adaptation of Ant-Dispersed Plants to Seasonal Variation in Ant Activity

article

Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Fleshy-Fruited Plants Are Positively Associated with Seedling Diversity in a Tropical Montane Forest

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Phylogenetic signals in thermal traits remain stronger in the tropics if we can believe published physiological data. A reply to McKechnie et al., “Data quality problems undermine analyses of endotherm upper critical temperatures”

scholarly article by Christian Hof et al published 20 August 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Plant-frugivore networks are less specialized and more robust at forest-farmland edges than in the interior of a tropical forest

article

Pollination and seed dispersal are the most threatened processes of plant regeneration

scientific article

Positive relationship between fruit removal by animals and seedling recruitment in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2017

Potential Impact of Global Climate Change on Species Richness of Long-Distance Migrants

Potential of Airborne LiDAR Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro

scientific article published on 09 February 2022

Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

scientific article

Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world's terrestrial birds: more than species numbers

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

Projected impacts of climate change on functional diversity of frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Projecting consequences of global warming for the functional diversity of fleshy‐fruited plants and frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Quantification of climatic niches in birds: adding the temporal dimension

Range size: disentangling current traits and phylogenetic and biogeographic factors

scientific article published on 8 March 2006

Range-wide latitudinal and elevational temperature gradients for the world's terrestrial birds: implications under global climate change

scientific article

Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter?

article

Rates of ecomorphological trait evolution in passerine bird clades are independent of age

scientific article published in 2020

Reduced abundance of late-successional trees but not of seedlings in heavily compared with lightly logged sites of three East African tropical forests

scientific article published on 30 July 2010

Relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, and animal body size at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

scientific article

Response to Kabisch and Colleagues

Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature

scientific article published on 14 January 2022

Seasonal fluctuations of resource abundance and avian feeding guilds across forest-farmland boundaries in tropical Africa

article

Seed perishability determines the caching behaviour of a food-hoarding bird

scientific article

Seed-dispersal distributions by trumpeter hornbills in fragmented landscapes.

scientific article

Seed-dispersal networks are more specialized in the Neotropics than in the Afrotropics

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Seed-dispersal networks respond differently to resource effects in open and forest habitats

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Short seed-dispersal distances and low seedling recruitment in farmland populations of bird-dispersed cherry trees

scientific article published in 2012

Similar composition of functional roles in Andean seed-dispersal networks, despite high species and interaction turnover

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Spatial patterns of pathogenic and mutualistic fungi across the elevational range of a host plant

scientific article published on 07 February 2018

Spatial patterns of woody plant and bird diversity: functional relationships or environmental effects?

article

Spatio-temporal variation in bird assemblages is associated with fluctuations in temperature and precipitation along a tropical elevational gradient.

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Specialization and interaction strength in a tropical plant-frugivore network differ among forest strata

scientific article

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases toward tropical latitudes

scientific article

Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 20 September 2021

Species richness is positively related to mental health – A study for Germany

scientific article published in 2021

Species richness of migratory birds is influenced by global climate change

scientific article published in 2007

Sugar landscapes and pollinator-mediated interactions in plant communities

article

Synergistic effects of climate and land use on avian beta-diversity

scientific article published in 2017

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database [SUPERSEDED]

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts ⬇️

scientific article

The Signed Mantel test to cope with autocorrelation in comparative analyses

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

scientific article

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe

scholarly article, 2020

The importance of vegetation density for tourists' wildlife viewing experience and satisfaction in African savannah ecosystems.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

The indirect effects of habitat disturbance on the bird communities in a tropical African forest

article published in 2015

The influence of thermal tolerances on geographical ranges of endotherms

scientific article published in 2017

The rise and fall of biodiversity in literature: A comprehensive quantification of historical changes in the use of vernacular labels for biological taxa in Western creative literature

scientific article from 2021

The worldwide variation in avian clutch size across species and space

scientific article

Towards a more mechanistic understanding of traits and range sizes

scientific article published in 2012

Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Twenty-million-year relationship between mammalian diversity and primary productivity

scientific article

Weak phylogenetic effects on ecological niches of Sylvia warblers.

scientific article published in September 2003

What is macroecology?

scientific article

When, Where, and How Nature Matters for Ecosystem Services: Challenges for the Next Generation of Ecosystem Service Models

scholarly article by Jesse T. Rieb published in August 2017

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