The effects of climate change on tropical birds

ÇH Şekercioğlu, RB Primack, J Wormworth - Biological conservation, 2012 - Elsevier
Birds are among the most widely studied organisms on earth and represent an important
indicator group for learning about the effects of climate change–particularly in regard to the …

Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California

G Rapacciuolo, SP Maher, AC Schneider… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding recent biogeographic responses to climate change is fundamental for
improving our predictions of likely future responses and guiding conservation planning at …

The relationship between spectral and plant diversity: Disentangling the influence of metrics and habitat types at the landscape scale

M Perrone, M Di Febbraro, L Conti, J Divíšek… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity monitoring is crucial for ecosystem conservation, but ground data collection is
limited by cost, time, and scale. Remote sensing is a convenient approach providing …

Ecological correlates of elevational range shifts in tropical birds

MHC Neate-Clegg, SEI Jones, JA Tobias… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Globally, birds have been shown to respond to climate change by shifting their elevational
distributions. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the tropics, where elevational …

Analysis of climate paths reveals potential limitations on species range shifts

R Early, DF Sax - Ecology letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1125–1133 Abstract Forecasts of species endangerment under
climate change usually ignore the processes by which species ranges shift. By analysing the …

Residence time, expansion toward the equator in the invaded range and native range size matter to climatic niche shifts in non‐native species

Y Li, X Liu, X Li, B Petitpierre… - Global Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Identifying climatic niche shifts and their drivers is important for the accurate prediction
of the risk of biological invasions. The niches of non‐native plants and birds have recently …

Disentangling the role of climate, topography and vegetation in species richness gradients

MR Moura, F Villalobos, GC Costa, PCA Garcia - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Environmental gradients (EG) related to climate, topography and vegetation are among the
most important drivers of broad scale patterns of species richness. However, these different …

Topographic determinants of mobile vertebrate predator hotspots: current knowledge and future directions

PJ Bouchet, JJ Meeuwig, CP Salgado Kent… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Despite being identified as a driver of mobile predator aggregations (hotspots) in both
marine and terrestrial environments, topographic complexity has long remained a …

Abiotic and biotic constraints across reptile and amphibian ranges

HR Cunningham, LJ Rissler, LB Buckley… - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing macroecological hypothesis posits that species range limits are primarily
determined by abiotic factors (eg climate) at poleward boundaries and biotic factors (eg …

Humidity levels drive reproductive modes and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

FR da Silva, M Almeida‐Neto… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The diversity of reproductive modes among amphibians constitutes a striking example
of how differences in the biology of species provide important explanations for species …