Dylan Craven
A5015005562- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Data Observatory Foundation
2023-2025
Universidad Mayor
2019-2025
The Dia Foundation for Research on Ageing Societies
2025
Fundación Chile
2023
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
2014-2022
University of Göttingen
2018-2022
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2017-2022
Instituto de Ecología
2021
Universidad Veracruzana
2021
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2021
Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.
Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during secondary succession and their recovery is interrelated using 77 sites across tropics. are highly resilient low-intensity land use; after 20 years, attain 78% (33 100%) old-growth values. Recovery 90% values fastest for soil (<1 decade) plant functioning (<2.5 decades), intermediate structure species diversity (2.5...
Our ability to understand and predict the response of ecosystems a changing environment depends on quantifying vegetation functional diversity. However, representing this diversity at global scale is challenging. Typically, in Earth system models, characterization plant has been limited grouping related species into types (PFTs), with all trait variation PFT collapsed single mean value that applied globally. Using largest database state art Bayesian modeling, we created fine-grained maps...
Global change drivers are rapidly altering resource availability and biodiversity. While there is consensus that greater biodiversity increases the functioning of ecosystems, extent to which buffers ecosystem productivity in response changes remains unclear. We use data from 16 grassland experiments across North America Europe manipulated plant species richness one two essential resources-soil nutrients or water-to assess direction strength interaction between diversity alteration on...
Abstract Our planet is facing significant changes of biodiversity across spatial scales. Although the negative effects local (α diversity) loss on ecosystem stability are well documented, consequences at larger scales, in particular biotic homogenization, that is, reduced species turnover space (β diversity), remain poorly known. Using data from 39 grassland experiments, we examine β diversity simulated landscapes while controlling for potentially confounding and abiotic factors. results...
Abstract In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 1 , large knowledge gaps persist how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated tropical landscapes 2 . Here, we present findings from a large-scale, 5-year restoration experiment an oil palm landscape enriched with 52 tree islands, encompassing assessments of ten indicators 19 functioning. Overall, functioning, as well multidiversity multifunctionality, were higher islands compared conventionally...
Abstract Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the strengthening of is caused by temporal shifts in species-level overyielding (i.e., higher diverse communities compared with monocultures) remains unclear. Here, using data from 65 grassland and forest biodiversity experiments, we show that strength at scale underpinned changes species yield. These trends are shaped plant ecological strategies, which can be quantitatively delimited functional...
ABSTRACT Large‐scale reforestation is promoted as an important strategy to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. A persistent challenge for efforts restore ecosystems at scale how accelerate ecological processes, particularly natural regeneration. Yet, despite being recognized barrier the recovery of diverse plant communities in tropical agricultural landscapes, impacts dispersal limitation on regeneration secondary forests—and especially this changes these forests grow older—are...
Both local- and landscape-scale processes drive succession of secondary forests in human-modified tropical landscapes. Nonetheless, until recently successional changes composition diversity have been predominantly studied at the patch level. Here, we used a unique dataset with 45 randomly selected sites across mixed-use landscape central Panama to study forest simultaneously on local scales both life stages (seedling, sapling, juvenile adult trees) forms (shrubs, trees, lianas, palms). To...
Abstract In a recent Forum paper, Wardle ( Journal of Vegetation Science , 2016) questions the value biodiversity–ecosystem function BEF ) experiments with respect to their implications for biodiversity changes in real world communities. The main criticism is that previous focus on random species assemblages within each level diversity has ‘limited understanding how natural communities respond loss.’ He concludes broader spectrum approaches considering both non‐random gains and losses...
Abstract Soil resource partitioning and dispersal limitation have been shown to shape the tree community structure of mature tropical forests, but are poorly studied in context forest succession. We examined relative contributions both ecological processes variation species composition young secondary forests at different spatial scales, if importance these two changed during At level, we association between abundances soil fertility differed early late successional and/or over course used...
The relationship between an island’s size and the number of species on that island—the island species–area (ISAR)—is one most well-known patterns in biogeography forms basis for understanding biodiversity loss response to habitat fragmentation. Nevertheless, there is contention about exactly how estimate ISAR influence three primary ecological mechanisms drive it — random sampling, disproportionate effects, heterogeneity. Key this estimates are often confounded by sampling measures (i.e.,...
Significance Tropical forests disappear rapidly through deforestation but also have the potential to regrow naturally a process called secondary succession. To advance successional theory, it is essential understand how these and their assembly vary across broad spatial scales. We do so by synthesizing continental-scale patterns in succession using functional trait approach. show that start pathway of varies with climatic water availability. In dry forests, driven drought tolerance traits...