This decreasing trend in β-diversity was explained by an increasing trend in local (α) diversity by range expansion of half the study species.
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A long-term macroecological analysis of the recovery of a waterbird metacommunity after site protection.
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We also found a positive temporal trend in nestedness and a decreasing trend in species turnover among sites (β-diversity), indicating that sites are increasingly more alike to each other (i.e. increased biotic homogenization).