Sean L. Tuck

TL;DR: A terrestrial assemblage database of unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage is analysed to quantify local biodiversity responses to land use and related changes and shows that in the worst-affected habitats, pressures reduce within-sample species richness by an average of 76.5%, total abundance by 39.5% and rarefaction-based richness by 40.3%.

TL;DR: It is affirmed that organic farming has large positive effects on biodiversity compared with conventional farming, but that the effect size varies with the organism group and crop studied, and is greater in landscapes with higher land‐use intensity.

TL;DR: The relationship between species richness across multiple higher taxa observed at 526 sites in temperate forests and vegetation indices, measures of aboveground net primary productivity, was analyzed.

TL;DR: A hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis on all available pairwise plant–soil feedback experiments conducted over the last two decades shows that, contrary to widespread assumption, relatedness is a poor predictor of plant– soil feedback effects.

TL;DR: The results reveal the species differences required for potential insurance effects including a trade-off in which species with denser wood have lower growth rates but higher survival, and average survival rates were extreme in monocultures than mixtures.