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Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, September 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
45 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
230 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 230 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 15%
Student > Master 30 13%
Researcher 24 10%
Student > Bachelor 22 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 80 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 56 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 2%
Other 14 6%
Unknown 87 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 70. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2025.
All research outputs
#770,712
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from Nature Ecology & Evolution
#1,088
of 2,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,572
of 465,542 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Ecology & Evolution
#19
of 41 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,842 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 130.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 465,542 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 41 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its contemporaries.