Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

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Authors

VERHEYEN Kris FRENNE Pieter De BAETEN Lander WALLER Donald M HÉDL Radim PERRING Michael P BLONDEEL Haben BRUNET Jörg CHUDOMELOVÁ Markéta DECOCQ Guillaume LOMBAERDE Emiel De DEPAUW Leen DIRNBÖCK Thomas DURAK Tomasz ERIKSSON Ove GILLIAM Frank S HEINKEN Thilo HEINRICHS Steffi HERMY Martin JAROSZEWICZ Bogdan JENKINS Michael A JOHNSON Sarah E KIRBY Keith J KOPECKÝ Martin LANDUYT Dries LENOIR Jonathan LI Daijiang MACEK Martin MAES Sybryn L MÁLIŠ František MITCHELL Fraser J G NAAF Tobias PETERKEN George PETŘÍK Petr RECZYŃSKA Kamila ROGERS David A SCHEI Fride HOistad SCHMIDT Wolfgang STANDOVÁR Tibor ŚWIERKOSZ Krzysztof UJHÁZY Karol CALSTER Hans Van VELLEND Mark VILD Ondřej WOODS Kerry WULF Monika BERNHARDT-RÖMERMANN Markus

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Bioscience
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/67/1/73/2661833/Combining-Biodiversity-Resurveys-across-Regions-to
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw150
Field Ecology
Keywords legacy data; (quasi-)permanent plots; community ecology; ground-layer vegetation; temperate forest
Description More and more ecologists have started to resurvey communities sampled in earlier decades to determine long-term shifts in community composition and infer the likely drivers of the ecological changes observed. However, to assess the relative importance of and interactions among multiple drivers, joint analyses of resurvey data from many regions spanning large environmental gradients are needed. In this article, we illustrate how combining resurvey data from multiple regions can increase the likelihood of driver orthogonality within the design and show that repeatedly surveying across multiple regions provides higher representativeness and comprehensiveness, allowing us to answer more completely a broader range of questions. We provide general guidelines to aid the implementation of multiregion resurvey databases. In so doing, we aim to encourage resurvey database development across other community types and biomes to advance global environmental change research.
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