Amphibians are undergoing a global conservation crisis, and they are one of the most
underrepresented groups of vertebrates in the global network of protected areas (PAs). In …

Aim Biologists increasingly recognize the roles of humans in ecosystems. Subsequently,
many have argued that biodiversity conservation must be extended to environments that …

Climate and land use changes drive shifts in species distributions, causing variations in
species richness. Yet the influence of shifts in species distributions on functional diversity at …

As anthropogenic transformation of Earth's ecology accelerates, and its impacts on the
sustainability of humanity and the rest of nature become more obvious, geographers and …

The biodiversity collapse strongly affects the amphibian group and many factors have been
pointed out as catalytic agents. It is estimated that several events in the amphibian …

The 'Data Deficient'(DD) category of the IUCN Red List assembles species that cannot be
placed in another category due to insufficient information. This process generates …

Multiple environmental factors are known to shape species distributions at the global scale,
including climate and topography, but understanding current extents of occurrence and …

Understanding biological community distribution patterns and their drivers across different
scales is one of the major goals of community ecology in a rapidly changing world …

PCPS is an R package for exploring phylogenetic eigenvectors across metacommunities. It
offers a set of functions for analyzing principal coordinates of phylogenetic structure (PCPS) …

There is a great need to understand the effects of man-made land transformation on
freshwater biodiversity, because agricultural landscapes provide habitat for many aquatic …