Adding ecological and evolutionary processes to restoration biodiversity offset models using neutral theory

Biodiversity offsets are being implemented or planned across all continents and biogeographical realms. Due to their popularity, new offset projects have developed faster than empirical evidence of their ecological effectiveness, so policy has been informed by quantitative models. However, these models have yet to incorporate ecological and evolutionary processes, which vary globally. Here we use the unified neutral theory of biodiversity to integrate speciation and dispersal into models of restoration biodiversity offsets.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2019-05-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ddi.12943
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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