Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
Survey data To assess impacts of land-use change on bird diversity, we began by collating surveys from the…
Climate change is predicted to reduce global belowground ecosystem multifunctionality
Ecosystem function data The following criteria were used to select ecosystem data for this study: (a) Ecosystem indicators…
Vegetation cover change as a growing driver of global leaf area index dynamics
DatasetsVegetation cover data The Vegetation Continuous Fields version 1 product (VCF5KYR) was adopted to provide global fine-scale fractional…
Learning the syntax of plant assemblages
A visualization of the methodology used in this paper is shown in Fig. 1, a more complete overview…
Global loss of mountain vegetated landscapes and its impact on biodiversity conservation
Mapping global mountain vegetated landscapes We first mapped MVL in 2000 as a base map from which to…
Highly protected areas buffer against aridity thresholds in global drylands
Cherlet, M. et al. World Atlas of Desertification (Publication Office of the European Union, 2018). Davies, J. et…