Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series

Whether a species declines under the current biodiversity crisis could partly depend on its range size. Here, the authors use replicated metacommunity data to identify global patterns in the relationship between species’ range size and changes in occupancy through time.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Wu-Bing Xu, Shane A. Blowes, Viviana Brambilla, Cher F. Y. Chow, Ada Fontrodona-Eslava, Inês S. Martins, Daniel McGlinn, Faye Moyes, Alban Sagouis, Hideyasu Shimadzu, Roel van Klink, Anne E. Magurran, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Brian J. McGill, Maria Dornelas, Jonathan M. Chase
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37127-2