Publications by authors named "Robin R Decker"
Article Synopsis
- Dispersal is important for plants, but we still don’t fully understand how it affects their survival and spread.
- It’s tough to predict how seeds move around because it depends on many different factors like the environment and time.
- To really get better at studying seed dispersal, we need to consider all the different ways plants grow and change over time, and work together across different fields of science.
A recent comment from Knouft () has suggested that our original article (Dallas et al. ) was an 'inappropriate application of biodiversity data'. Here, we affirm our results, and address the more general point about biodiversity data use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pervasive idea that species should be most abundant in the centre of their geographic range or centre of their climatic niche is a key assumption in many existing ecological hypotheses and has been declared a general macroecological rule. However, empirical support for decreasing population abundance with increasing distance from geographic range or climatic niche centre (distance-abundance relationships) remains fairly weak. We examine over 1400 bird, mammal, fish and tree species to provide a thorough test of distance-abundance relationships, and their associations with species traits and phylogenetic relationships.
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