The Research Status and Prospect of Global change Ecology in the Past 30 Years Based on CiteSpace

Over the past two decades, natural history collections (NHCs) have played an increasingly prominent role in global change research, but they have still greater potential, especially for the most diverse group of animals on Earth: insects. Here, we review the role of NHCs in advancing our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary responses of insects to recent global changes. Insect NHCs have helped document changes in insects' geographical distributions, phenology, phenotypic and genotypic traits over time periods up to a century. Recent work demonstrates the enormous potential of NHCs data for examining insect responses at multiple temporal, spatial and phylogenetic scales. Moving forward, insect NHCs offer unique opportunities to examine the morphological, chemical and genomic information in each specimen, thus advancing our understanding of the processes underlying species’ ecological and evolutionary responses to rapid, widespread global changes. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the anthropocene’.

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A 21st Century Vision for Neotropical Snake Systematics

Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología ◽

10.22201/fc.25942158e.2018.1.10 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 58

Author(s):

Robert Alexander Pyron

Keyword(s):

Species Richness ◽

Natural History ◽

Global Change ◽

South America ◽

Ecosystem Function ◽

Museum Specimens ◽

Fine Grained ◽

The Past ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Recent Synthesis

We live in an unprecedented age for systematics and biodiversity studies. Ongoing global change is leading to a future with reduced species richness and ecosystem function (Pereira, Navarro, & Martins, 2012). Yet, we know more about biodiversity now than at any time in the past. For squamates in particular, we have range maps for all species (Roll et al., 2017), phylogenies containing estimates for all species (Tonini, Beard, Ferreira, Jetz, & Pyron, 2016), and myriad ecological and natural-history datasets for a large percentage of species (Meiri et al., 2013; Mesquita et al., 2016). For neotropical snakes, a recent synthesis of museum specimens and verified localities offers a fine-grained perspective on their ecogeographic distribution in Central and South America, and the Caribbean (Guedes et al., 2018).

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RESPONSE OF BEETLES TO GLOBAL CHANGE: THE PAST IS A CLUE TO THE FUTURE

Environmental Geosciences ◽

10.1046/j.1526-0984.1999.08046.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 150-151

Author(s):

Allan C. Ashworth

Keyword(s):

Global Change ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

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Surfactant-based promotion to gas hydrate formation for energy storage

Journal of Materials Chemistry A ◽

10.1039/c9ta07071k ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (38) ◽

pp. 21634-21661 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Yan He ◽

Meng-Ting Sun ◽

Chen Chen ◽

Guo-Dong Zhang ◽

Kun Chao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Gas Hydrate ◽

Methane Hydrate ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Hydrate Formation ◽

Research Status ◽

The Past ◽

Gas Hydrate Formation

Surfactant-promoted methane hydrate formation during the past 2–3 decades has been reviewed, aiming toward achieving a comprehensive evaluation on the current research status and effective guidance on the research prospects.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.739023349.793582216 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Luz Boyero

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Global Change ◽

Global Database ◽

Global Change Ecology ◽

Riverine Systems

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Global change ecology

Trends in Ecology & Evolution ◽

10.1016/j.tree.2006.03.004 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 21 (6) ◽

pp. 348-351 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

William H. Schlesinger

Keyword(s):

Global Change ◽

Global Change Ecology

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A Scientometric Analysis of Worldwide Intercropping Research Based on Web of Science Database between 1992 and 2020

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13052430 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 2430

Author(s):

Wen Lv ◽

Xining Zhao ◽

Pute Wu ◽

Jialong Lv ◽

Hailong He

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

Agroforestry Systems ◽

Future Research ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Main Research ◽

Research Status ◽

The Past ◽

The Usa ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

India And China

Intercropping has been practiced worldwide in both traditional and sustainable agriculture to feed the growing population. This study aims to analyze the research status and evolution of intercropping, to identify the influential authors, research centers, and articles, and to reveal the main research topics between 1992 and 2020 based on the Web of Science Core Collection database. The results show that the volume of publications in this field has increased rapidly over the past three decades. The analysis identifies the top three authors (i.e., Meine Van Noordwijk, Wenyu Yang, and Teja Tscharntke), top three contributing organizations (i.e., the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), the Chinese Academy of Science, and the INRA), and three most productive countries (i.e., the USA, India, and China). Co-occurrence analysis demonstrates that studies on intercropping can be divided into four clusters as centered by keywords of intercropping/maize, biodiversity/conservation, agroforestry, and carbon, respectively. Lal 2004 is the most influential study with the greatest number of citations and Agroforestry Systems is the most utilized journal. Perspectives on future studies were also given. This study helps researchers to clarify the current research status in the field of intercropping and put forward its future research.

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