Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use

By M. Vellend, K. Verheyen, Kathryn M. Flinn, H. Jacquemyn, A. Kolb, H. Van Calster, G. Peterken, B. Graae, Jesse Bellemare, Olivier Honnay and 4 more. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Disturbance alters beta‐diversity but not the relative importance of community assembly mechanisms (2015, background): “Depending on how disturbance modifies environmental conditions and colonization from the species pool, it could alter b-diversity through either environmental filtering or stochastic colonization and extinction processes that create ecological drift (e.g. Chase 2007; Vellend et al. 2007; Jiang & Pat”
Understory succession in post-agricultural oak forests: Habitat fragmentation affects forest specialists and generalists differently (2011, background): “This has potentially large effects on environmental sorting, and may result in floristic homogenization (Gilliam, 2007; Vellend et al., 2007).”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, methodology): “Taxonomic similarity across sub-regions was examined via three widely adopted indexes – Jaccard, Raup and Cick (RC) and Bray–Curtis distance (see Verheyen et al., 2004; Vellend et al., 2007), plus randomization techniques to control for potential influences from unbalanced numbers of species.”
A latent threat to biodiversity: consequences of small-scale heterogeneity loss (2010, background): “Different ecological theories also frequently emphasise different aspects of biodiversity at different scales, e.g., eutrophication and habitat homogenisation affecting c-diversity (Velland et al. 2007), biodiversity-ecological functioning experiments focussing on a-diversity ( Tilman et al. 1996; ”
Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. (2011, background): “Although dRC still depends on c (a topic for further research), analyses based on dRC allow one to identify changes in b diversity (increases in variation as measured by dJ) that are driven by changes in a alone (Vellend et al. 2007).”
Biotic homogenization at the community scale: disentangling the roles of urbanization and plant invasion (2013, methodology): “A plot-based beta-diversity index was calculated using the average pairwise Jaccard’s distance of each study plot compared to all other plots of the same group (Vellend et al., 2007), that is, to either all Robinia or all Betula plots.”
The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine‐scale spatial patterning of ground‐layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests (2011, background): “In contrast, historical filters, such as disturbance or land-use history, can weaken relationships between species distributions and environmental gradients (Vellend et al. 2007) resulting in spatial patterns associated with colonization (Matlack 1994; Verheyen et al.”