Species distribution modelling to support forest management. A literature review

M Pecchi, M Marchi, V Burton, F Giannetti… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) techniques were originally developed in the
mid-1980s. In this century they are gaining increasing attention in the literature and in …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

ENVIREM: an expanded set of bioclimatic and topographic variables increases flexibility and improves performance of ecological niche modeling

PO Title, JB Bemmels - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution modeling is a valuable tool with many applications across ecology and
evolutionary biology. The selection of biologically meaningful environmental variables that …

Short-interval wildfire and drought overwhelm boreal forest resilience

E Whitman, MA Parisien, DK Thompson… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The size and frequency of large wildfires in western North America have increased in recent
years, a trend climate change is likely to exacerbate. Due to fuel limitations, recently burned …

The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco

V Fehlenberg, M Baumann, NI Gasparri… - Global environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
South America's tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from
agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and soybean production both drive these forest …

Sustainability of forest cover under climate change on the temperate-continental xeric limits

C Mátyás, I Berki, A Bidló, G Csóka, K Czimber… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Climate change particularly threatens the xeric limits of temperate-continental forests. In
Hungary, annual temperatures have increased by 1.2° C–1.8° C in the last 30 years and the …

Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests

JE Harvey, M Smiljanić, T Scharnweber… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The role of future forests in global biogeochemical cycles will depend on how different tree
species respond to climate. Interpreting the response of forest growth to climate change …

ClimateEU, scale-free climate normals, historical time series, and future projections for Europe

M Marchi, D Castellanos-Acuña, A Hamann, T Wang… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Interpolated climate data have become essential for regional or local climate change impact
assessments and the development of climate change adaptation strategies. Here, we …

Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and management

A Hamann, DR Roberts, QE Barber… - Global Change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The velocity of climate change is an elegant analytical concept that can be used to evaluate
the exposure of organisms to climate change. In essence, one divides the rate of climate …

Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people

C Levers, A Romero-Muñoz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Agricultural expansion into subtropical and tropical forests causes major environmental
damage, but its wider social impacts often remain hidden. Forest-dependent smallholders …