The role of mountain ranges in the diversification of birds

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie, C Rahbek - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
Avian faunas vary greatly among montane areas; those at high latitudes are biologically
impoverished, whereas those of some low-latitude mountains are biologically very complex …

Spatial predictions at the community level: from current approaches to future frameworks

M D'Amen, C Rahbek, NE Zimmermann… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A fundamental goal of ecological research is to understand and model how
processes generate patterns so that if conditions change, changes in the patterns can be …

Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

MR Moura, W Jetz - Nature ecology & evolution, 2021‏ - nature.com
Much of biodiversity remains undiscovered, causing species and their functions to remain
unrealized and potentially lost in ignorance. Here we use extensive species-level data in a …

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

ED Lorenzen, D Nogués-Bravo, L Orlando, J Weinstock… - Nature, 2011‏ - nature.com
Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic
extinctions of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary period remain contentious …

Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras

TS Fristoe, M Chytrý, W Dawson, F Essl… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Understanding drivers of success for alien species can inform on potential future invasions.
Recent conceptual advances highlight that species may achieve invasiveness via …

Species are not most abundant in the centre of their geographic range or climatic niche

T Dallas, RR Decker, A Hastings - Ecology letters, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The pervasive idea that species should be most abundant in the centre of their geographic
range or centre of their climatic niche is a key assumption in many existing ecological …

Ecological niche structure and rangewide abundance patterns of species

E Martínez-Meyer, D Díaz-Porras… - Biology …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spatial abundance patterns across species' ranges have attracted intense attention in
macroecology and biogeography. One key hypothesis has been that abundance declines …

Species out of sight: elucidating the determinants of research effort in global reptiles

JJM Guedes, MR Moura… - Ecography, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
More than two million species have been described so far, but our knowledge on most taxa
remains scarce or inexistent, and the available biodiversity data is often taxonomically …

Sampling scales define occupancy and underlying occupancy–abundance relationships in animals

R Steenweg, M Hebblewhite, J Whittington, P Lukacs… - Ecology, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Occupancy–abundance (OA) relationships are a foundational ecological phenomenon and
field of study, and occupancy models are increasingly used to track population trends and …

The social costs of keystone species collapse: Evidence from the decline of vultures in india

E Frank, A Sudarshan - American Economic Review, 2024‏ - aeaweb.org
Scientific evidence has documented we are undergoing a mass extinction of species,
caused by human activity. However, allocating conservation resources is difficult due to …