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 …

Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

The aim of the ecospat package is to make available novel tools and methods to support
spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions in a coherent workflow …

Predictive studies are of paramount importance for biological invasions, one of the biggest
threats for biodiversity. To help and better prioritize management strategies, species …

The influence of genetic variation on invasion success has captivated researchers since the
start of the field of invasion genetics 50 years ago. We review the history of work on this …

Aim Correlative models that forecast extinction risk from climate change and invasion risks
following species introductions, depend on the assumption that species' current distributions …

virtualspecies is a freely available package for R designed to generate virtual species
distributions, a procedure increasingly used in ecology to improve species distribution …

The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) is classified as one of the worst invasive alien
species 1 and as the fifth costliest worldwide 2, impacting ecosystems, agriculture and …

Our understanding of how climate influences species distributions and our ability to assess
the risk of introduced species depend on the assumption that species' climatic niches remain …