Assessing whether the climatic niche of a species may change between different geographic
areas or time periods has become increasingly important in the context of ongoing global …

Biological invasions are caused by human-mediated extra-range dispersal and, unlike
natural extra-range dispersal, are often the result of multiple introductions from multiple …

Aim Concerns over how global change will influence species distributions, in conjunction
with increased emphasis on understanding niche dynamics in evolutionary and community …

Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-develo** field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

Understanding the ecological impacts of climate change is a crucial challenge of the twenty-
first century. There is a clear lack of general rules regarding the impacts of global warming …

“Space-for-time” substitution is widely used in biodiversity modeling to infer past or future
trajectories of ecological systems from contemporary spatial patterns. However, the …

Within the field of species distribution modelling an apparent dichotomy exists between
process‐based and correlative approaches, where the processes are explicit in the former …

In the face of the growing challenges brought about by human activities, effective planning
and decision-making in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, restoration, and …

Statistical species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the potential
changes in species distributions under climate change scenarios. We suggest that we need …

Improving our understanding of species ranges under rapid climate change requires
application of our knowledge of the tolerance and adaptive capacity of populations to …