Marta Rueda

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between environmental predictors and the geographical distribution of species richness, body size, range size and abundance in 97 multi-factorial data sets and concluded that the ecological importance of regression coefficients cannot be evaluated with confidence irrespective of whether spatially explicit or non-spatial modeling is used.

TL;DR: Tropical niche conservatism in the face of long-term climate change, probably initiated in the Late Cretaceous associated with the rise of the Rocky Mountains, is a strong driver of the phylogenetic structure of the angiosperm component of forest communities across the USA.

TL;DR: It is shown that herbivore-induced change in dominance, independent of site productivity or precipitation (a proxy for productivity), is the best predictor of Herbivore effects on biodiversity in grassland and savannah sites.

TL;DR: Stability was associated more strongly with the degree of synchrony among dominant species than with species richness, which is consistent with theory predicting that the effect of richness on stability weakens when synchrony is higher than expected under random fluctuations, which was the case in most communities.

TL;DR: Using a recently developed quantitative method, the world's zoogeographical regions are evaluated following Alfred Russel Wallace's criteria as closely as possible.