Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe

Francesca Pilotto(Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M), Ingolf Kühn(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research), Rita Adrian(Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries), Renate Alber, Audrey Alignier(Institut Agro Rennes-Angers), Christopher Andrews(UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Jaana Bäck(University of Helsinki), Luc Barbaro(Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement), D. A. Beaumont(Rothamsted Research), Natalie Beenaerts(Hasselt University), Sue Benham(Forest Research), David S. Boukal(Czech Academy of Sciences), Vincent Bretagnolle(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Elisa Camatti(Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Roberto Canullo(Università di Camerino), P.G. Cardoso(Universidade do Porto), Bruno J. Ens(Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology), Gert Everaert(Flanders Marine Institute), Vesela Evtimova(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Heidrun Feuchtmayr(UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Ricardo García‐González(Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología), Daniel Gómez García(Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología), Ulf Grandin(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Jerzy M. Gutowski(Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa), Liat Hadar(Alzheimer's Association of Israel), L. Halada(Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences), Melinda Halassy(Institute of Ecology and Botany), H. Hummel(Utrecht University), Kaisa-Leena Huttunen(University of Oulu), Bogdan Jaroszewicz(Białowieża National Park), Thomas C. Jensen(Norwegian Institute for Nature Research), Henrik Kalivoda(Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences), Inger Kappel Schmidt(University of Copenhagen), Ingrid Kröncke(Senckenberg am Meer), Reima Leinonen(Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment), Filipe Martinho(University of Coimbra), Henning Meesenburg(Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt), Julia Meyer(Senckenberg am Meer), Stefano Minerbi(Ospedale di Bolzano), Don Monteith(UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Boris P. Nikolov(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Daniel Oró(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Dāvis Ozoliņš(University of Latvia), Bachisio Mario Padedda(University of Sassari), D. Pallett(UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Marco Pansera(Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Miguel Â. Pardal(University of Coimbra), Bruno Petriccione, Tanja Pipan(University of Nova Gorica), Juha Pöyry(Finnish Environment Institute), Stefanie Schäfer(UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Marcus Schaub(Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research), Susanne C. Schneider(Norwegian Institute for Water Research), Agnija Skuja(University of Latvia), Karline Soetaert(Utrecht University), Gunta Spriņģe(University of Latvia), Radoslav Stanchev(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Jenni A. Stockan(James Hutton Institute), Stefan Stoll(Trier University of Applied Sciences), Lisa Sundqvist(Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), Anne Thimonier(Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research), Gert Van Hoey(Flanders Marine Institute), Gunther Van Ryckegem(Research Institute for Nature and Forest), Marcel E. Visser(Netherlands Institute of Ecology), Samuel Vorhauser, Peter Haase(Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M)
Nature Communications
July 13, 2020
10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y
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Abstract

Local biodiversity trends over time are likely to be decoupled from global trends, as local processes may compensate or counteract global change. We analyze 161 long-term biological time series (15-91 years) collected across Europe, using a comprehensive dataset comprising ~6,200 marine, freshwater and terrestrial taxa. We test whether (i) local long-term biodiversity trends are consistent among biogeoregions, realms and taxonomic groups, and (ii) changes in biodiversity correlate with regional climate and local conditions. Our results reveal that local trends of abundance, richness and diversity differ among biogeoregions, realms and taxonomic groups, demonstrating that biodiversity changes at local scale are often complex and cannot be easily generalized. However, we find increases in richness and abundance with increasing temperature and naturalness as well as a clear spatial pattern in changes in community composition (i.e. temporal taxonomic turnover) in most biogeoregions of Northern and Eastern Europe.

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