Turtles and tortoises are in trouble

CB Stanford, JB Iverson, AGJ Rhodin, PP van Dijk… - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
Turtles and tortoises (chelonians) have been integral components of global ecosystems for
about 220 million years and have played important roles in human culture for at least …

Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: the promise of biophysical ecology

NJ Briscoe, SD Morris, PD Mathewson… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

Reversing defaunation: restoring species in a changing world

PJ Seddon, CJ Griffiths, PS Soorae, DP Armstrong - Science, 2014 - science.org
The rate of biodiversity loss is not slowing despite global commitments, and the depletion of
animal species can reduce the stability of ecological communities. Despite this continued …

Forecasting species range dynamics with process‐explicit models: matching methods to applications

NJ Briscoe, J Elith, R Salguero‐Gómez… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Knowing where species occur is fundamental to many ecological and environmental
applications. Species distribution models (SDMs) are typically based on correlations …

NicheMapR–an R package for biophysical modelling: the microclimate model

MR Kearney, WP Porter - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microclimatic variables are necessary for a wide range of pure and applied problems in
environmental science. In ecology, microclimatic conditions are prerequisites for modelling …

Managing consequences of climate‐driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science

TC Bonebrake, CJ Brown, JD Bell… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is driving a pervasive global redistribution of the planet's species. Species
redistribution poses new questions for the study of ecosystems, conservation science and …

The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: implications for adaptation to a changing climate

C Soravia, BJ Ashton, A Thornton… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

Using species distribution modelling to determine opportunities for trophic rewilding under future scenarios of climate change

S Jarvie, JC Svenning - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Trophic rewilding, the (re) introduction of species to promote self-regulating biodiverse
ecosystems, is a future-oriented approach to ecological restoration. In the twenty-first century …

Unpacking the mechanisms captured by a correlative species distribution model to improve predictions of climate refugia

NJ Briscoe, MR Kearney, CA Taylor… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Climate refugia are regions that animals can retreat to, persist in and potentially then expand
from under changing environmental conditions. Most forecasts of climate change refugia for …

Microclimate modelling at macro scales: a test of a general microclimate model integrated with gridded continental‐scale soil and weather data

MR Kearney, A Shamakhy, R Tingley… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The microclimate experienced by organisms is determined by local weather conditions. Yet
the environmental data available for predicting the effect of climate on the distribution and …