Claudia Hemp

TL;DR: The study reveals that climate can modulate the effects of land use on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and points to a lowered resistance of ecosystems in climatically challenging environments to ongoing land-use changes in tropical mountainous regions.

TL;DR: This paper found that species classified as elevational specialists (upper or lower-zone specialists) are relatively more frequent in the American than Asia-Pacific tropics, with African tropics being intermediate.

TL;DR: This work quantifies cross-taxon consensus in diversity gradients and evaluates predictors of diversity from single taxa to a multi-taxa community level and points to the importance of temperature for diversification and species coexistence in plant and animal communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a field experiment of wood decomposition across 55 forest sites and 6 continents and find that the deadwood decomposition rates increase with temperature, and the strongest temperature effect is found at high precipitation levels.

TL;DR: Perceiving forests as centres of speciation reinforces the importance of conserving the remaining forest patches in the region, and indicates two radiations: the earliest one overlaps in time with the global spread of C4 grasslands and only grassland inhabiting lineages originated in this radiation.