Felix May
Prof. Dr.

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Prof. Dr. Felix May
- Sustainability Science
- Ecosystems Research
Research areas
- 2020
- Published
Woody plant diversity, composition and structure in relation to environmental variables and land-cover types in Lake Wanchi watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia
Angessa, A. T., Lemma, B., Yeshitela, K., Fischer, J., May, F. & Shumi, G., 01.12.2020, In: African Journal of Ecology. 58, 4, p. 627-638 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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A cross-scale assessment of productivity–diversity relationships
Craven, D., van der Sande, M. T., Meyer, C., Gerstner, K., Bennett, J. M., Giling, D. P., Hines, J., Phillips, H. R. P., May, F., Bannar-Martin, K. H., Chase, J. M. & Keil, P., 01.11.2020, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29, 11, p. 1940-1955 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss
Chase, J. M., Blowes, S. A., Knight, T. M., Gerstner, K. & May, F., 13.08.2020, In: Nature. 584, 7820, p. 238-243 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Scale-dependent effects of conspecific negative density dependence and immigration on biodiversity maintenance
May, F., Wiegand, T., Huth, A. & Chase, J. M., 01.07.2020, In: Oikos. 129, 7, p. 1072-1083 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Mediterranean marine protected areas have higher biodiversity via increased evenness, not abundance
Blowes, S. A., Chase, J. M., Di Franco, A., Frid, O., Gotelli, N. J., Guidetti, P., Knight, T. M., May, F., McGlinn, D. J., Micheli, F., Sala, E. & Belmaker, J., 01.03.2020, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 57, 3, p. 578-589 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology
Shoemaker, L. G., Sullivan, L. L., Donohue, I., Cabral, J. S., Williams, R. J., Mayfield, M. M., Chase, J. M., Chu, C., Harpole, W. S., Huth, A., HilleRisLambers, J., James, A. R. M., Kraft, N. J. B., May, F., Muthukrishnan, R., Satterlee, S., Taubert, F., Wang, X., Wiegand, T., Yang, Q. & Abbott, K. C., 01.02.2020, In: Ecology. 101, 2, 17 p., e02922.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2019
- Published
FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
Chase, J. M., Liebergesell, M., Sagouis, A., May, F., Blowes, S. A., Berg, Å., Bernard, E., Brosi, B. J., Cadotte, M. W., Cayuela, L., Chiarello, A. G., Cosson, J.-F., Cresswell, W., Dami, F. D., Dauber, J., Dickman, C. R., Didham, R. K., Edwards, D. P., Farneda, F. Z., Gavish, Y., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Guadagnin, D. L., Henry, M., López-Baucells, A., Kappes, H., Mac Nally, R., Manu, S., Martensen, A. C., McCollin, D., Meyer, C. F. J., Neckel-Oliveira, S., Nogueira, A., Pons, J.-M., Raheem, D. C., Ramos, F. N., Rocha, R., Sam, K., Slade, E., Stireman III, J. O., Struebig, M. J., Vasconcelos, H. & Ziv, Y., 01.12.2019, In: Ecology. 100, 12, 1 p., e02861.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species–area relationship
Chase, J. M., Gooriah, L., May, F., Ryberg, W. A., Schuler , M. S., Craven, D. & Knight, T. M., 30.04.2019, In: Frontiers of Biogeography . 11, 1, 17 p., e40844.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Intraspecific trait variation increases species diversity in a trait-based grassland model
Crawford, M., Jeltsch, F., May, F., Grimm, V. & Schlägel, U. E., 01.03.2019, In: Oikos. 128, 3, p. 441-455 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The geometry of habitat fragmentation: Effects of species distribution patterns on extinction risk due to habitat conversion
May, F., Rosenbaum, B., Schurr, F. M. & Chase, J. M., 03.2019, In: Ecology and Evolution. 9, 5, p. 2775-2790 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change
McGlinn, D. J., Xiao, X., May, F., Gotelli, N. J., Engel, T., Blowes, S. A., Knight, T. M., Purschke, O., Chase, J. M. & McGill, B. J., 01.02.2019, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 2, p. 258-269 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2018
Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities
Chase, J. M., McGill, B. J., McGlinn, D. J., May, F., Blowes, S. A., Xiao, X., Knight, T. M., Purschke, O. & Gotelli, N. J., 01.11.2018, In: Ecology Letters. 21, 11, p. 1737-1751 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
mobsim: An R package for the simulation and measurement of biodiversity across spatial scales
May, F., Gerstner, K., McGlinn, D. J., Xiao, X. & Chase, J. M., 01.06.2018, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 6, p. 1401-1408 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests
Bohn , F. J., May, F. & Huth, A., 26.03.2018, In: Biogeosciences. 15, 6, p. 1795 - 1813 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Spatial scaling of extinction rates: Theory and data reveal nonlinearity and a major upscaling and downscaling challenge
Keil, P., Pereira, H. M., Cabral, J. S., Chase, J. M., May, F., Martins, I. S., Winter, M. & Hurlbert, A., 01.01.2018, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27, 1, p. 2-13 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2017
Two Mediterranean annuals feature high within-population trait variability and respond differently to a precipitation gradient
Bergholz, K., May, F., Ristow, M., Giladi, I., Ziv, Y. & Jeltsch, F., 01.12.2017, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 25, p. 48-58 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
What drives the spatial distribution and dynamics of local species richness in tropical forest?
Wiegand, T., May, F., Kazmierczak, M. & Huth, A., 27.09.2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 284, 1863, 1 p., 2017.1503.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Environmental heterogeneity drives fine-scale species assembly and functional diversity of annual plants in a semi-arid environment
Bergholz, K., May, F., Giladi, I., Ristow, M., Ziv, Y. & Jeltsch, F., 01.02.2017, In: Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 24, p. 138-146 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2016
Do abundance distributions and species aggregation correctly predict macroecological biodiversity patterns in tropical forests?
May, F., Wiegand, T., Lehmann, S., Huth, A. & Fortin, M., 01.05.2016, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25, 5, p. 575-585 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Monodominance in tropical forests: modelling reveals emerging clusters and phase transitions
Kazmierczak, M., Backmann, P., Fedriani, J. M., Fischer, R., Hartmann, A. K., Huth, A., May, F., Müller, M. S., Taubert, F., Grimm, V. & Groeneveld, J., 01.04.2016, In: Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 13, 117, 9 p., 2016.0123.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review