期刊
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
卷 219, 期 -, 页码 175-183出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.021
关键词
Species extinction; Invasion; Biotic homogenization; Alpha; Beta; Gamma diversity
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation [DEB-1046121, EFRI-1332342]
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (NSF) [DBI-1052875]
- NSERC
- TULIP Laboratory of Excellence grant [ANR-10-LABX-41]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [1052875, GRANTS:13818770] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Recently, a debate has developed over how biodiversity is changing across the planet. While most researchers agree species extinctions are increasing globally due to human activity, some now argue that species richness at local scales is not declining as many biologists have claimed. This argument stems from recent syntheses of time series data that suggest species richness is decreasing in some locations, increasing in others, but not changing on average. Critics of these syntheses (like us) have argued there are serious limitations of existing time-series datasets and their analyses that preclude meaningful conclusions about local biodiversity change. Specifically, authors of these syntheses have failed to account for several primary drivers of biodiversity change, have relied on data poor time-series that lack baselines needed to detect change, and have unreasonably extrapolated conclusions. Here we summarize the history of this debate, as well as key papers and exchanges that have helped clarify new issues and ideas. To resolve the debate, we suggest future researchers be more clear about the hypotheses of biodiversity change being tested, focus less on amassing large datasets, and more on amassing high-quality datasets that provide unambiguous tests of the hypotheses. Researchers should also keep track of the contributions that native versus non-native species make to biodiversity time trends, as these have different implications for conservation. Lastly, we suggest researchers be aware of pros and cons of using different types of data (e.g., time-series, spatial comparisons), taking care to resolve divergent results among sources to allow broader conclusions about biodiversity change.
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