Why is "Species richness" trending?

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• Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature
• Scaling species richness: When vegetation surveys don't match in plot area - besjournals
• Geographic range shapes influence species richness in global hotspots - Science | AAAS
• What is biodiversity? [2026 update] - thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org
• Spatial patterns of tree species richness (A) and structural diversity (B) in China’s natural forests - eurekalert.org
• Species Richness Gradients Vary Across Phylogenetic Scales - Machac - 2025 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library
• Spatial patterns and future potential of tree species richness and structural diversity in China’s forests - Nature
• Insect herbivores increase plant species richness in a long‐term grassland experiment - besjournals
• Mechanistic prediction of community composition across resource conditions and species richness - Nature
• Species richness variation in marine and terrestrial fauna across widespread, fragmented territories: assessing inherent challenges of data scarcity at local and regional scales - Nature
• Integrative Assessment of Hong Kong Chironomidae (Diptera) Shows High Species Richness Linked to Spatial and Environmental Factors - Wiley Online Library
• Global evidence for a positive relationship between tree species richness and ecosystem photosynthesis - Nature
• Beyond species richness: Grazing and fertilisation shape temperate grassland stability through distinct diversity effects - besjournals
• Species richness prediction and priority conservation planning for rare Michelia species in China - Nature
• Optimal sheep grazing intensity for bumblebee Bombus species richness and abundance on traditional Norwegian summer farms - besjournals
• Greater tree species richness results in increased ecosystem photosynthesis in forests globally - Nature
• Drivers and metacommunity perspective of differences in regional species richness between main chironomid taxa inhabiting temperate zone rivers | Scientific Reports - Nature
• Proximity to forests, fire and plantation characteristics influence understory plant species richness more than phylogenetic diversity in African mahogany plantations - Nature
• Species richness and Spatial distribution of three Pieridae subfamilies across mainland China under past and future climates - Nature
• Nonnative tree invaders lead to declines in native tree species richness - PNAS
• Dietary species richness for healthy people and ecosystems - Nature
• Taxonomic and Trophic Groups Mediate Latitudinal Variation in Saproxylic Beetle Species Richness and Body Size Across Western Palaearctic Oak Forests - Wiley Online Library
• Plant community restoration time is a key factor affecting plant nutrient and species richness - Nature
• Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments - Nature
• Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts - Nature
• Global warming is causing a more pronounced dip in marine species richness around the equator - PNAS
• Effect of habitat complexity attributes on species richness - St. Pierre - 2014 - Ecosphere - ESA Journals
• Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient - Nature
• Enhanced effects of species richness on resistance and resilience of global tree growth to prolonged drought - PNAS
• Species Richness and Abundance of Benthic Invertebrates Are Multiplied by Beaver (Castor sp.) Activities in Small Floodplains - Wiley Online Library
• Ranking the world’s biodiversity - Butler Nature
• Diversity matters: Species richness keeps ecosystems running - Phys.org
• Global patterns and drivers of species and genera richness of Fabaceae - Frontiers
• Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment - Science | AAAS
• Bridging Satellite Productivity and Global Biodiversity: Unveiling Insights through Dynamic Habitat Indices - Science Partner Journals
• Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation - PNAS
• Current and past climate co-shape community-level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic - Wiley Online Library
• Niche partitioning in a periphyton metacommunity peaks at intermediate species richness in midsized rivers - ESA Journals
• Chromosomal evolution, environmental heterogeneity, and migration drive spatial patterns of species richness in Calochortus (Liliaceae) - PNAS
• Idiosyncratic patterns of local species richness and turnover define global biodiversity hotspots - PNAS
• Relationships between species richness and biomass production are context dependent in grasslands differing in land-use and seed addition | Scientific Reports - Nature
• Alpine Tundra Species Richness - National Park Service (.gov)
• Comparing avian species richness estimates from structured and semi-structured citizen science data - Nature
• Bird clades with less complex appendicular skeletons tend to have higher species richness - Nature
• Patterns of species richness and the center of diversity in modern Indo-Pacific larger foraminifera | Scientific Reports - Nature
• Reptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran | Scientific Reports - Nature
• Analysis of global tree population explains baffling trends in species richness - Purdue University - College of Agriculture
• Latitudinal gradients of species richness in the deep-sea benthos of the North Atlantic - PNAS
• Multiscale assessment of patterns of avian species richness - PNAS
• Environment and time drive the links between the species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality from multitrophic freshwater mesocosms - Frontiers
• Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness - Nature
• Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming - Nature
• Species richness and resource availability: A phylogenetic analysis of insects associated with trees - PNAS
• Reptile species richness and its predicted geographic change | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS (.gov)
• Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora | Communications Biology - Nature
• Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare - Wiley
• Integrative models explain the relationships between species richness and productivity in plant communities - Nature
• Is species richness increasing? An intense ecological debate | The Brink - Boston University
• Distribution patterns of fern species richness along elevations the Tibetan Plateau in China: regional differences and effects of climate change variables - Frontiers
• Spatial patterns of vascular plant species richness in Poland - a data set - Nature
• Impact of Nitrogen Deposition on the Species Richness of Grasslands - Science | AAAS
• The key to temperate savanna restoration is to increase plant species richness reasonably - Frontiers
• Bird species richness and diversity responses to land use change in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya - Nature
• Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras - Nature
• Regional heterogeneity in coral species richness and hue reveals novel global predictors of reef fish intra-family diversity - Nature
• Climate-niche species richness change with and without dispersal - USGS (.gov)
• The effect of ecosystem diversity on bird species richness and abundance by Liam Conran '22 - Saint Michael's College
• Species richness and traits predict overyielding in stem growth in an early-successional tree diversity experiment - ESA Journals
• Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool - Nature
• Reptile climate-niche species richness change with full dispersal - USGS (.gov)
• Vertical stratification of insect abundance and species richness in an Amazonian tropical forest - Nature
• Functional identity drives tree species richness-induced increases in litterfall production and forest floor mass in young tree communities - Wiley
• Drivers of understory species richness in reconstructed boreal ecosystems: a structural equation modeling analysis - Nature
• Are Numbers of Species a True Measure of Ecosystem Health? - e360.yale.edu
• The landscape ecological view of vertebrate species richness in urban areas across biogeographic realms - Nature
• The effect of environmental heterogeneity on species richness depends on community position along the environmental gradient - Nature
• Urban aliens and threatened near-naturals: Land-cover affects the species richness of alien- and threatened species in an urban-rural setting - Nature
• Geographic Pattern of Bryophyte Species Richness in China: The Influence of Environment and Evolutionary History - Frontiers
• Plant species richness mediates the responses of microbial necromass carbon accumulation to climate aridity in alpine meadows - besjournals
• Temporal Dynamics of Species Richness and Composition in a Peri-Urban Tropical Frog Community in Central Brazil - Wiley Online Library
• Spatial pattern of woody plant species richness and composition in primary warm temperate evergreen forest in Kasugayama Hill, Japan - Nature
• Abiotic variables drive different aspects of fish community trait variation and species richness across the continental United States - besjournals
• Predicting microbial species richness - PNAS
• Genetic databases don’t fairly capture species richness of Global South, new data show - Science | AAAS
• Consumer species richness and nutrients interact in determining producer diversity | Scientific Reports - Nature
• Diminishing influence of negative relationship between species richness and evenness on the modeling of grassland α-diversity metrics - Frontiers
• Species richness and composition are not sufficient for determining the functionality of ancient ecosystems - PNAS
• Higher species richness enhances yield stability in intensively managed grasslands with experimental disturbance - Nature
• Species richness and beta diversity patterns of multiple taxa along an elevational gradient in pastured grasslands in the European Alps - Nature
• Species richness alone does not predict cultural ecosystem service value - PNAS
• Analysis of global tree population explains baffling trends in species richness - Phys.org
• Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities - Wiley Online Library
• Fungal and bacterial species richness in biodeteriorated seventeenth century Venetian manuscripts - Nature
• Decline in small mammal species richness in coastal‐central California, 1997–2013 - Wiley Online Library
• Comment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality” - Science | AAAS
• Climate-niche species richness map for 2070-2100 - USGS (.gov)
• Upscaling species richness and abundances in tropical forests - Science | AAAS
• Species richness and vulnerability to disturbance propagation in real food webs - Nature
• Factors Affecting Mammalian Occupancy and Species Richness in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal - Wiley Online Library
• Predicting spatial variations of tree species richness in tropical forests from high-resolution remote sensing - ESA Journals