Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity by Francesco Maria Sabatini, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Ute Jandt, Milan Chytrý, Richard Field, Michael Kessler, Jonathan Lenoir, Franziska Schrodt, Susan K. Wiser, Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan, Fabio Attorre, Luis Cayuela, Michele De Sanctis, Jürgen Dengler, Sylvia Haider, Mohamed Z. Hatim, Adrian Indreica, Florian Jansen, Aníbal Pauchard, Robert K. Peet, Petr Petřík, Valério D. Pillar, Brody Sandel, Marco Schmidt, Zhiyao Tang, Peter van Bodegom, Kiril Vassilev, Cyrille Violle, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Priya Davidar, Jiri Dolezal, Bruno Hérault, Antonio Galán-de-Mera, Jorge Jiménez, Stephan Kambach, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Holger Kreft, Felipe Lezama, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Justin K. N’Dja, Oliver L. Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Petr Sklenář, Karina Speziale, Ben J. Strohbach, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Hua-Feng Wang, Karsten Wesche, Helge Bruelheide

“…This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.…”
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GIFT—An R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits by Pierre Denelle, Patrick Weigelt, Holger Kreft

“…These checklists include a total of 371,148 land plant species, mostly vascular plants, of which 354,848 have accepted species names, and species‐level data for 109 functional traits. …”
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Diurnal temperature range as a key predictor of plants’ elevation ranges globally by Arnaud Gallou, Alistair S. Jump, Joshua S. Lynn, Richard Field, Severin D. H. Irl, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jan-Chang Chen, Chang-Hung Chou, Andreas Hemp, Yohannes Kidane, Christian König, Holger Kreft, Alireza Naqinezhad, Arkadiusz Nowak, Jan-Niklas Nuppenau, Panayiotis Trigas, Jonathan P. Price, Carl A. Roland, Andreas H. Schweiger, Patrick Weigelt, Suzette G. A. Flantua, John-Arvid Grytnes

“…We test these contrasting predictions by relating 88,000 elevation range sizes of vascular plants in 44 mountains to short- and long-term temperature variation. …”
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The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide by Daijun Liu, Philipp Semenchuk, Franz Essl, Bernd Lenzner, Dietmar Moser, Tim M. Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, Dino Biancolini, César Capinha, Wayne Dawson, Ellie E. Dyer, Benoit Guénard, Evan P. Economo, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Mark van Kleunen, Wolfgang Nentwig, Carlo Rondinini, Hanno Seebens, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Andy Purvis, Stefan Dullinger

“…Here, we use a worldwide collection of assemblages from five taxa - ants, birds, mammals, spiders and vascular plants - to assess whether the incidence, frequency and proportions of naturalised non-native species depend on type and intensity of land use. …”
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Phylogenetic diversity and the structure of host-epiphyte interactions across the Neotropics by Marcio R. Pie, Fernanda S. Caron, Thom Dallimore, Helena Einzmann, Peter Hietz, Michael Kessler, Flavio Nunes Ramos, João Pedro Costa Elias, Holger Kreft, Thorsten Krömer, Maria Judith Carmona Higuita, Daniel Zuleta, Giesta Machado, André Luís de Gasper, Gerhard Zotz, Glenda Mendieta Leiva, Derio Antonio Jimenez-Lopez, Alex Fernando Mendes, Pedro Brancalion, Sara Mortara, Christopher Thomas Blum, Mariana Victória Irume, Nayely Martínez-Meléndez Nayely, Ana Maria Benavides, Carlos Renato Boelter, Sven Batke

“…Here, we use a large-scale dataset of 4,440 vascular plant species to explore the relationship between the evolutionary distinctiveness (ED) (as measured by the ’species evolutionary history’ (SEH)) of host species and the phylogenetic diversity (PD) of their associated epiphyte species. …”
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Asynchronous exposure to global warming: freshwater resources and terrestrial ecosystems by Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, Sebastian Ostberg, Jens Heinke, Martin Kowarsch, Holger Kreft, Zbigniew W Kundzewicz, Johann Rastgooy, Rachel Warren, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

“…Concurrently, substantial habitat transformations would occur in biogeographic regions that contain 1% (in zones affected at 2 ° C), 10% (3.5 ° C) and 74% (5 ° C) of present endemism-weighted vascular plant species, respectively. The results suggest nonlinear growth of impacts along with Δ T _g and highlight regional disparities in impact magnitudes and critical Δ T _g levels.…”
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