Open access article led by Lucie Kuczynski shows that caution is required when analysing temporal trends in species richness: net imbalance between colonisation and extinction will bias towards positive slopes as shown by data and neutral simulations. As long as environmental conditions change, the absence of a trend in richness is no good news as it deviates negatively from the expected increase.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02078-w

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