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    Global Ecology and Biogeography: Volume 24, Issue 12

    1363-1526
    December 2015
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Research Review

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Engineer pioneer plants respond to and affect geomorphic constraints similarly along water–terrestrial interfaces world-wide

Dov Corenblit,  Andreas Baas,  Thorsten Balke,  Tjeerd Bouma,  François Fromard,  Virginia Garófano-Gómez,  Eduardo González,  Angela M. Gurnell,  Borbála Hortobágyi,  Frédéric Julien,  Daehyun Kim,  Luc Lambs,  J. Anthony Stallins,  Johannes Steiger,  Eric Tabacchi,  Romain Walcker, 
  • Pages: 1363-1376
  • First Published: 15 September 2015

Research Papers

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Functional trait variation along environmental gradients in temperate and Mediterranean trees

Albert Vilà-Cabrera,  Jordi Martínez-Vilalta,  Javier Retana, 
  • Pages: 1377-1389
  • First Published: 23 September 2015
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Phylogenetic community structure when competition and environmental filtering determine abundances

Mara A. Freilich,  Sean R. Connolly, 
  • Pages: 1390-1400
  • First Published: 07 September 2015
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Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

Safaa Wasof,  Jonathan Lenoir,  Per Arild Aarrestad,  Inger Greve Alsos,  W. Scott Armbruster,  Gunnar Austrheim,  Vegar Bakkestuen,  H. John B. Birks,  Kari Anne Bråthen,  Olivier Broennimann,  Jörg Brunet,  Hans Henrik Bruun,  Carl Johan Dahlberg,  Martin Diekmann,  Stefan Dullinger,  Mats Dynesius,  Rasmus Ejrnæs,  Jean-Claude Gégout,  Bente Jessen Graae,  John-Arvid Grytnes,  Antoine Guisan,  Kristoffer Hylander,  Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir,  Jutta Kapfer,  Kari Klanderud,  Miska Luoto,  Ann Milbau,  Mari Moora,  Bettina Nygaard,  Arvid Odland,  Harald Pauli,  Virve Ravolainen,  Stefanie Reinhardt,  Sylvi Marlen Sandvik,  Fride Høistad Schei,  James D. M. Speed,  Jens-Christian Svenning,  Wilfried Thuiller,  Liv Unn Tveraabak,  Vigdis Vandvik,  Liv Guri Velle,  Risto Virtanen,  Pascal Vittoz,  Wolfgang Willner,  Thomas Wohlgemuth,  Niklaus E. Zimmermann,  Martin Zobel,  Guillaume Decocq, 
  • Pages: 1401-1412
  • First Published: 15 September 2015
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The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world's cities is scale dependent

Jun Yang,  Frank A. La Sorte,  Petr Pyšek,  Pengbo Yan,  David Nowak,  Joe McBride, 
  • Pages: 1413-1423
  • First Published: 15 September 2015
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Birds, butterflies and flowers in the tropics are not more colourful than those at higher latitudes

Rhiannon L. Dalrymple,  Darrell J. Kemp,  Habacuc Flores-Moreno,  Shawn W. Laffan,  Thomas E. White,  Frank A. Hemmings,  Marianne L. Tindall,  Angela T. Moles, 
  • Pages: 1424-1432
  • First Published: 10 September 2015
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The geography of snake reproductive mode: a global analysis of the evolution of snake viviparity

Anat Feldman,  Aaron M. Bauer,  Fernando Castro-Herrera,  Laurent Chirio,  Indraneil Das,  Tiffany M. Doan,  Erez Maza,  Danny Meirte,  Cristiano de Campos Nogueira,  Zoltán Tamás Nagy,  Omar Torres-Carvajal,  Peter Uetz,  Shai Meiri, 
  • Pages: 1433-1442
  • First Published: 15 September 2015
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Predicting richness and composition in mountain insect communities at high resolution: a new test of the SESAM framework

Manuela D'Amen,  Jean-Nicolas Pradervand,  Antoine Guisan, 
  • Pages: 1443-1453
  • First Published: 28 July 2015
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Using ecophysiological traits to predict climatic and activity niches: lethal temperature and water loss in Mediterranean ants

Xavier Arnan,  Nico Blüthgen, 
  • Pages: 1454-1464
  • First Published: 19 August 2015
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Assessing the general patterns of forest structure: quantifying tree and forest allometric scaling relationships in the United States

Laura I. Duncanson,  Ralph O. Dubayah,  Brian J. Enquist, 
  • Pages: 1465-1475
  • First Published: 06 September 2015
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Between-taxon matching of common and rare species richness patterns

C. J. Reddin,  J. H. Bothwell,  J. J. Lennon, 
  • Pages: 1476-1486
  • First Published: 17 September 2015
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The quality of organic matter shapes the functional biogeography of bacterioplankton across boreal freshwater ecosystems

Clara Ruiz-González,  Juan Pablo Niño-García,  Jean-François Lapierre,  Paul A. del Giorgio, 
  • Pages: 1487-1498
  • First Published: 02 August 2015

Meta-Analysis

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The biogeography of fertilization mode in the sea

Keyne Monro,  Dustin J. Marshall, 
  • Pages: 1499-1509
  • First Published: 05 August 2015

Macroecological Methods

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BHPMF – a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

Franziska Schrodt,  Jens Kattge,  Hanhuai Shan,  Farideh Fazayeli,  Julia Joswig,  Arindam Banerjee,  Markus Reichstein,  Gerhard Bönisch,  Sandra Díaz,  John Dickie,  Andy Gillison,  Anuj Karpatne,  Sandra Lavorel,  Paul Leadley,  Christian B. Wirth,  Ian J. Wright,  S. Joseph Wright,  Peter B. Reich, 
  • Pages: 1510-1521
  • First Published: 14 July 2015

List of Referees

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List of Referees

  • Pages: 1522-1524
  • First Published: 03 November 2015

Volume 24 Title Page

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Global Ecology and Biogeography: A Journal of Macroecology

  • Pages: 1525-1526
  • First Published: 03 November 2015