Movement of organisms is one of the key mechanisms sha** biodiversity, eg the
distribution of genes, individuals and species in space and time. Recent technological and …

Human societies, and their well-being, depend to a significant extent on the state of the
ecosystems that surround them. These ecosystems are changing rapidly usually in response …

Dispersal is fundamental in determining biodiversity responses to rapid climate change, but
recently acquired ecological and evolutionary knowledge is seldom accounted for in either …

Neutral landscape models (NLMs) simulate landscape patterns based on theoretical
distributions and can be used to systematically study the effect of landscape structure on …

Epidemics, flame propagation, and cardiac rhythms are classic examples of reaction–
diffusion waves that describe a switch from one alternative state to another. Only two types of …

Dynamic vegetation models (DVMs) follow a process‐based approach to simulate plant
population demography, and have been used to address questions about disturbances …

Modelling is often confronted with scaling problems, because modelling—directly or
indirectly—always implies scaling. This is because models simplify. Simplification usually …

Tanzania rangelands are a stronghold for biodiversity harbouring a variety of animal and
plant species of economic, ecological and socio-cultural importance. Efforts to protect these …

Species' geographical distributions are tracking latitudinal and elevational surface
temperature gradients under global climate change. To evaluate the opportunities to track …

Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) represents small, non-directional deviations from perfect
symmetry in morphological characters. FA is generally accepted to increase in response to …