Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

作者：Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne, Lander Baeten, Donald M. Waller, Radim Hédl, Michael P. Perring, Haben Blondeel, Jörg Brunet, Markéta Chudomelová, Guillaume Decocq, Emiel De Lombaerde, Leen Depauw, Thomas Dirnböck, Tomasz Durak, Ove Eriksson, Frank S. Gilliam, Thilo Heinken, Steffi Heinrichs, Martin Hermy, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Michael A. Jenkins, Sarah E. Johnson, K. J. Kirby, Martin Kopecký, Dries Landuyt, Jonathan Lenoir, Daijiang Li, Martin Macek, Sybryn L. Maes, Frantíšek Máliš, Fraser Mitchell, Tobias Naaf, G. F. Peterken, Petr Petřík, Kamila Reczyńska, David A. Rogers, Fride Høistad Schei, Wolfgang Schmidt, Tibor Standovár, Krzysztof Świerkosz, Karol Ujházy, Hans Van Calster, Mark Vellend, Ondřej Vild, Kerry D. Woods, Monika Wulf, Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann · 发表于：BioScience · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1093/biosci/biw150 · 被引用次数：108 · 研究领域：Species Distribution and Climate Change、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

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 paper 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 implementation of multi-region resurvey databases. In so doing, we aim to encourage resurvey database development across other community types and biomes to advance global environmental change research.