Modelling of species distributions, range dynamics and communities under imperfect detection: advances, challenges and opportunities

G Guillera‐Arroita - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Building useful models of species distributions requires attention to several important issues,
one being imperfect detection of species. Data sets of species detections are likely to suffer …

How does climate change cause extinction?

AE Cahill, ME Aiello-Lammens… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be a major cause of species extinctions in the
next 100 years. But what will actually cause these extinctions? For example, will it be limited …

Climate-related local extinctions are already widespread among plant and animal species

JJ Wiens - PLoS biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Current climate change may be a major threat to global biodiversity, but the extent of species
loss will depend on the details of how species respond to changing climates. For example, if …

A global parasite conservation plan

CJ Carlson, S Hopkins, KC Bell, J Doña… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Found throughout the tree of life and in every ecosystem, parasites are some of the most
diverse, ecologically important animals on Earth—but in almost all cases, the least protected …

Climate‐related range shifts–a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

J Lenoir, JC Svenning - Ecography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Poleward and upward shifts are the most frequent types of range shifts that have been
reported in response to contemporary climate change. However, the number of reports …

The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species' distributions

DAW Miller, K Pacifici, JS Sanderlin… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the advance of methods for estimating species distribution models has come an interest
in how to best combine datasets to improve estimates of species distributions. This has …

Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data

NJB Isaac, AJ van Strien, TA August… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Policy‐makers increasingly demand robust measures of biodiversity change over short time
periods. Long‐term monitoring schemes provide high‐quality data, often on an annual …

Widespread shifts in the coastal biota of northern California during the 2014–2016 marine heatwaves

E Sanford, JL Sones, M García-Reyes, JHR Goddard… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract During 2014–2016, severe marine heatwaves in the northeast Pacific triggered well-
documented disturbances including mass mortalities, harmful algal blooms, and declines in …

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

M Gottfried, H Pauli, A Futschik, M Akhalkatsi… - Nature climate …, 2012 - nature.com
Climate impact studies have indicated ecological fingerprints of recent global warming
across a wide range of habitats,. Although these studies have shown responses from …

Species' traits as predictors of range shifts under contemporary climate change: A review and meta‐analysis

SA MacLean, SR Beissinger - Global Change Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature seeks to explain variation in range shifts using species'
ecological and life‐history traits, with expectations that shifts should be greater in species …