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A comparison of taxon co-occurrence patterns for macro- and microorganisms

scientific article

A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data

article

A novel statistical method for classifying habitat generalists and specialists

scientific article published in June 2011

A stochastic, evolutionary model for range shifts and richness on tropical elevational gradients under Quaternary glacial cycles ⬇️

scientific article

A strong Madagascan rainforest MDE and no equatorward increase in species richness: re-analysis of ?The missing Madagascan mid-domain effect?, by Kerr J.T., Perring M. & Currie D.J. (Ecology Letters 9:149?159, 2006)

scientific article (publication date: September 2007)

Abundance-based similarity indices and their estimation when there are unseen species in samples

scientific article published in June 2006

Alpine archaeology of Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson Tablelands (Nevada) : the archaeology of Monitor Valley, contribution 4.

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate ⬇️

scientific article published on October 9, 2011

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being.

scientific article published in March 2017

Biota: The Biodiversity Database Manager

scientific article published in 1997

Biota: The Biodiversity Database Manager.

scientific article published in 1997

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Coextinction and Persistence of Dependent Species in a Changing World

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Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms

article

Deciphering the enigma of undetected species, phylogenetic, and functional diversity based on Good-Turing theory.

scientific article

Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems

article

Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2011

Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

ESTIMATION OF SPECIES RICHNESS: MIXTURE MODELS, THE ROLE OF RARE SPECIES, AND INFERENTIAL CHALLENGES

scientific article published in 2005

EVOLUTION OF SEX RATIO IN STRUCTURED DEMES.

scientific article published in September 1981

Ecological and biogeographic null hypotheses for comparing rarefaction curves

article

Elevational Patterns of Diversity and Abundance of Eusocial Paper Wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica

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Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths

article by Jan Beck et al published 9 December 2016 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Environment-induced changes in selective constraints on social learning during the peopling of the Americas.

scientific article

Estimating the Richness of a Population When the Maximum Number of Classes Is Fixed: A Nonparametric Solution to an Archaeological Problem ⬇️

scientific article published on May 29, 2012

Estimating the species accumulation curve using mixtures.

scientific article

Excelsotarsonemus kaliszewskii, a new genus and new species from Costa Rica (Acari: Tarsonemidae)

scientific article published in June 1995

Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains

FLOWER MITES OF TRINIDAD II. THE GENUS PROCTOLAELAPS (ACARI: ASCIDAE)

scholarly article published in 1991

Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics

scientific article

Group selection is implicated in the evolution of female-biased sex ratios

scientific article published in Nature

HUTCHINSONIAN RATIOS AND STATISTICAL POWER.

scientific article

How ants drop out: ant abundance on tropical mountains

scientific article

Humboldt's enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Hutchinson's duality: the once and future niche ⬇️

scientific article

INTERPOLATING, EXTRAPOLATING, AND COMPARING INCIDENCE-BASED SPECIES ACCUMULATION CURVES

article by Robert K. Colwell et al published October 2004 in Ecology

Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation

scientific article

Lawrence B. Slobodkin (1928–2009): Integrating Theory, Models, and Experiments in Ecology.

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Making Sense of Ecological Complexity: A Personal and Conceptual Restrospective

scientific article published in 1992

Managing consequences of climate-driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science

scientific article

Mechanism, Process, and Causation in Ecological Models: A Reply to McGill and Potochnik

scientific article published on 23 December 2017

Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map

scientific article (publication date: February 2006)

Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints

scientific article

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

scientific article published in Science

Moth body size increases with elevation along a complete tropical elevational gradient for two hyperdiverse clades

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

New Genus and Two New Species of Melicharini from Venezuela (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae)

Nonbiological Gradients in Species Richness and a Spurious Rapoport Effect

article

On the Measurement of Niche Breadth and Overlap

scientific article published in July 1971

Organization of Contiguous Communities of Amphibians and Reptiles in Thailand ⬇️

scientific article published in February 1977

Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology.

scientific article published in September 2009

Phylogenetic uncertainty revisited: Implications for ecological analyses.

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Predicting continental-scale patterns of bird species richness with spatially explicit models

scientific article

Process, Mechanism, and Modeling in Macroecology

scientific article

Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

article

Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

scientific article published in 2022

Proportional mixture of two rarefaction/extrapolation curves to forecast biodiversity changes under landscape transformation

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness

scientific article published in 2001

Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2013)

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

article

Rensch’s Rule Crosses the Line: Convergent Allometry of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Hummingbirds and Flower Mites

scientific article (publication date: November 2000)

Repeated Evolution of Unorthodox Feeding Styles Drives a Negative Correlation between Foot Size and Bill Length in Hummingbirds

scientific article published in 2023

Seasonal and daily climate variation have opposite effects on species elevational range size.

scientific article

Seen once or more than once: applying Good–Turing theory to estimate species richness using only unique observations and a species list

scientific article published in 2017

Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis

scientific article

Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Species loss revisited

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Species richness and evolutionary niche dynamics: a spatial pattern-oriented simulation experiment

scientific article

Specimen‐Based Modeling, Stopping Rules, and the Extinction of the Ivory‐Billed Woodpecker ⬇️

scientific article published on July 28, 2011

Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators

scientific article published on April 2009

THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS

scientific article published in 2002

THE INFLUENCE OF BAND SUM AREA, DOMAIN EXTENT, AND RANGE SIZES ON THE LATITUDINAL MID-DOMAIN EFFECT

scientific article published in 2005

The Mid‐Domain Effect: There’s a Baby in the Bathwater

article by Robert K. Colwell et al published November 2005 in The American Naturalist

The Planned Introduction of Genetically Engineered Organisms: Ecological Considerations and Recommendations

scientific article published in 1989

The arboreal ants of a Neotropical rain forest show high species density and comprise one third of the ant fauna

The coincidence of rarity and richness and the potential signature of history in centres of endemism

scientific article published in 2004

The distributions of morphologically specialized hummingbirds coincide with floral trait matching across an Andean elevational gradient

The mid-domain effect and species richness patterns:what have we learned so far?

scientific article published on 13 February 2004

The river domain: why are there more species halfway up the river?

article

The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2007

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

scientific article

The world’s hotspot of linguistic and biocultural diversity under threat

preprint

Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

scientific article

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

article

Turning Up the Heat on a Hotspot: DNA Barcodes Reveal 80% More Species of Geometrid Moths along an Andean Elevational Gradient

scientific article

Understanding historical and current patterns of species richness of babblers along a 5000-m subtropical elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2014

Unveiling the species-rank abundance distribution by generalizing the Good-Turing sample coverage theory

scientific article published on May 2015

Vulnerability and resilience of tropical forest species to land-use change.

scientific article

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