On defining and quantifying biotic homogenization

By Julian D. Olden, T. Rooney. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Distribution of specialist and generalist species along spatial gradients of habitat disturbance and fragmentation (2008, background): “Biotic homogenization refers to the process by which the genetic, taxonomic or functional similarity of two or more species assemblage increases over space and/or time (Olden 2006b).”
Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use (2007, background): “Although the term ‘biotic homogenization’ is most often associated with decreases in beta diversity due to the spread of exotic species, decreases in beta diversity can also result from other causes ( Olden & Rooney 2006 ), such as human land use.”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, methodology): “Finally, a non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of the 12 sub-regions (pre and post 1980) was performed to graphically infer about taxonomic homogenization and floristic convergence (Olden & Rooney, 2006) experienced by the Atlantic forest subregions.”
Contrasted impacts of climate change on stream fish assemblages along an environmental gradient (2009, background): “Investigations have been carried out to verify whether the human-mediated introduction of exotic species has tended to homogenize historical assemblages from which native species were extirpated (e.g. Rahel, 2002; Olden, 2006; Olden & Rooney, 2006; Leprieur et al. , 2008b).”
Does size matter for dispersal distance (2007, background): “How fast is the ‘Homogecene’ approaching ( Olden & Rooney, 2006 )? That question may best be answered by comparison of accelerated taxonomic homogenization rates with background rates and distance functions, especially relative to natural barriers (e.g.”
A global assessment of freshwater fish introductions in mediterranean-climate regions (2013, methodology): “Jaccard's index of similarity was selected for the taxonomic data because it is the most commonly used index in taxonomic homogenisation studies (Olden & Rooney, 2006); but Baiser et al. (2012) has discussed other appropriate indices for this type of analysis.”
Implications of Time-Averaged Death Assemblages for Ecology and Conservation Biology (2013, background): “…recognizing its importance to total diversity and its likely contribution to resilience: Beta diversity is almost certain to decline with increased species introductions and with habitat conversion and homogenization (McKinney & Lockwood 1999, Olden & Rooney 2006, Qian & Ricklefs 2006).”
Taxonomic and functional homogenization of an endemic desert fish fauna (2012, methodology): “…can occur when introduced species fill similar functional roles (e.g. ecological redundancy of traits into new geographical locations) or when native species with unique functional roles (e.g. trophic specialists) decline in range or abundance (McKinney & Lockwood, 1999; Olden & Rooney, 2006).”
Widespread plant species: natives versus aliens in our changing world (2011, methodology): “Second, biotic homogenization has been traditionally analysed using classical similarity indices based on species numbers (e.g. Olden and Rooney 2006; Pino et al. 2009).”
Functional homogenization of bird communities along habitat gradients: accounting for niche multidimensionality (2010, background): “Biotic homogenization is a multifaceted concept that refers to the processes by which biotas lose their biological distinctiveness at any level of organization, whether genetic, taxonomic or functional (Olden & Rooney, 2006).”
Land cover disturbance homogenizes aquatic insect functional structure in neotropical savanna streams (2018, background): “decrease in functional diversity among species in the community (Olden and Rooney, 2006).”
Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga (2016, background): “…by a less diverse group of disturbance-adapted species; this phenomenon of increased community similarity through space and time, as anthropogenic disturbances increase, has been called biotic homogenization (adapted from Olden and Rooney 2006 who defined the term for invasive non-native species).”
Taxonomic homogenization and differentiation across Southern Ocean Islands differ among insects and vascular plants (2010, background): “Indeed, in general, the literature on homogenization (mostly taxonomic homogenization) concerns vascular plants, fish and birds, investigated in continental areas, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere (Olden & Rooney, 2006; McKinney, 2008).”
Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring (2018, background): “A second spatial consequence of concomitant changes in global, regional and local biodiversity is a reduction in spatial biodiversity (beta- diversity), that is, biotic homogenisation (Karp et al., 2012; McKinney & Lockwood, 1999; Olden & Rooney, 2006; Van der Plas et al., 2016).”
Biodiversity and extinction (2007, positive): “Evidence is growing that changes in land cover are likely to be accompanied by the ongoing homogenization of biotas, and processes in which native species are replaced by a relatively small set of alien species (McKinney and Lockwood, 1999; Olden and Poff, 2003; Clergeau et al., 2006; Olden and Roon”