Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes sha** the microbial landscape

CA Hanson, JA Fuhrman, MC Horner-Devine… - Nature Reviews …, 2012‏ - nature.com
Recently, microbiologists have established the existence of biogeographic patterns among a
wide range of microorganisms. The focus of the field is now shifting to identifying the …

Can boreal and temperate forest management be adapted to the uncertainties of 21st century climate change?

A Park, K Puettmann, E Wilson, C Messier… - Critical Reviews in …, 2014‏ - Taylor & Francis
Considerable uncertainties remain about magnitude and character, if not general direction
of anthropogenic climate change. Global mean temperature could increase by 1.5–4.5° C or …

The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling

JM Lobo, A Jiménez‐Valverde, J Hortal - Ecography, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDM) are commonly used to obtain hypotheses on either the
realized or the potential distribution of species. The reliability and meaning of these …

Plant invasions in the landscape

M Vila, I Ibáñez - Landscape ecology, 2011‏ - Springer
Biological invasions and changes in land-use are two components of global change
affecting biodiversity worldwide. There is overriding evidence that invasions can …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011‏ - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

Could the tree diversity pattern in Europe be generated by postglacial dispersal limitation?

JC Svenning, F Skov - Ecology letters, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
The relative importance of contemporary climate and history as controls of geographical
diversity patterns is intensely debated. A key example is the controversy over the extent to …

Glacial refugia of temperate trees in Europe: insights from species distribution modelling

JC Svenning, S Normand, M Kageyama - Journal of Ecology, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 The Pleistocene is an important period for assessing the impact of climate
change on biodiversity. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 21 000 years ago), large …

Variation partitioning as a tool to distinguish between niche and neutral processes

TW Smith, JT Lundholm - Ecography, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
We assess the potential of different forms of variation partitioning to distinguish between
environmental control and dispersal limitation in communities structured by combinations of …

Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness–environment models

W Yang, K Ma, H Kreft - Journal of Biogeography, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Recent advances in the availability of species distributional and high‐resolution
environmental data have facilitated the investigation of species richness–environment …

Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

RR Dunn, D Agosti, AN Andersen, X Arnan… - Ecology …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude
and species richness is often asymmetrical between the northern and southern …