Rock slope failure is commonly regarded as the most significant phase in the evolution of an unstable rock slope. However, many rock slopes do not fail in a single event but rather in several individual ones. Such polyphase rock slope failures impose a challenge, as their post-failure evolution is hard to predict, and the time interval between the failure events, their magnitude, and running-out distance can differ significant...

Aim Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity vary across the globe, and considerable effort has been made to describe their relationships. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research has traditionally focused on how experimentally controlled species richness affects net primary productivity ( S → NPP) at small spatial grains. In contrast, the influence of productivity on richness (NPP → S ) has been explored at many grains...

Most current research on land‐use intensification addresses its potential to either threaten biodiversity or to boost agricultural production. However, little is known about the simultaneous effects of intensification on biodiversity and yield. To determine the responses of species richness and yield to conventional intensification, we conducted a global meta‐analysis synthesizing 115 studies which collected data for both vari...

Aim To develop a physiologically based model of the plant niche for use in species distribution modelling. Location Europe. Methods We link the Thornley transport resistance (TTR) model with functions which describe how the TTR’s model parameters are influenced by abiotic environmental factors. The TTR model considers how carbon and nutrient uptake, and the allocation of these assimilates, influence growth. We use indirect sta...