Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals

S Hoffmann - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard nature's diversity. In view of expanding
human land use, increasing climate change and unmet conservation targets, area-based …

Significance of precise documentation of hosts and geospatial data of fungal collections, with an emphasis on plant-associated fungi

AR Rathnayaka, DS Tennakoon… - New Zealand Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In taxonomy, precision of species collection data is a cornerstone for advancing research
and its diverse applications. Despite the widespread recognition of the significance of these …

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

D Zurell, J Franklin, C König, PJ Bouchet… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across
ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready‐to‐use software packages and …

Data integration enables global biodiversity synthesis

JM Heberling, JT Miller, D Noesgaard… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The accessibility of global biodiversity information has surged in the past two decades,
notably through widespread funding initiatives for museum specimen digitization and …

Species distribution modelling supports the study of past, present and future biogeographies

J Franklin - Journal of Biogeography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution modelling (SDM), also called environmental or ecological niche
modelling, has developed over the last 30 years as a widely used tool used in core areas of …

Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices

M Grenié, E Berti, J Carvajal‐Quintero… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The process of standardizing taxon names, taxonomic name harmonization, is necessary to
properly merge data indexed by taxon names. The large variety of taxonomic databases and …

Microclimate reveals the true thermal niche of forest plant species

S Haesen, J Lenoir, E Gril, P De Frenne… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species distributions are conventionally modelled using coarse‐grained macroclimate data
measured in open areas, potentially leading to biased predictions since most terrestrial …

Optimising occurrence data in species distribution models: sample size, positional uncertainty, and sampling bias matter

V Moudrý, M Bazzichetto, R Remelgado… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) have proven valuable in filling gaps in our knowledge of
species occurrences. However, despite their broad applicability, SDMs exhibit critical …

Experimental support for genomic prediction of climate maladaptation using the machine learning approach Gradient Forests

MC Fitzpatrick, VE Chhatre… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gradient Forests (GF) is a machine learning algorithm that is gaining in popularity for
studying the environmental drivers of genomic variation and for incorporating genomic …

The niche through time: Considering phenology and demographic stages in plant distribution models

D Zurell, NE Zimmermann, P Brun - Journal of Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to infer species–environment
relationships, predict spatial distributions and characterise species' environmental niches …