Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

D Thom, R Seidl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

Using species distribution models at local scale to guide the search of poorly known species: Review, methodological issues and future directions

M Fois, A Cuena-Lombraña, G Fenu, G Bacchetta - Ecological Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Among specific applications of species distribution models (SDMs), the use of SDMs
probabilistic maps for guiding field surveys is increasingly applied. This approach is …

Ecological niches and geographic distributions (MPB-49)

AT Peterson, J Soberón, RG Pearson… - Ecological niches and …, 2011 - degruyter.com
This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

A global assessment of invasive plant impacts on resident species, communities and ecosystems: the interaction of impact measures, invading species' traits and …

P Pyšek, V Jarošík, PE Hulme, J Pergl… - Global change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
With the growing body of literature assessing the impact of invasive alien plants on resident
species and ecosystems, a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between invasive …

Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling

MB Araújo, AT Peterson - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species'
occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once …

Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

RG Pearson, CJ Raxworthy, M Nakamura… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Techniques that predict species potential distributions by combining observed
occurrence records with environmental variables show much potential for application across …

Fire management for biodiversity conservation: key research questions and our capacity to answer them

DA Driscoll, DB Lindenmayer, AF Bennett, M Bode… - Biological …, 2010 - Elsevier
Knowing how species respond to fire regimes is essential for ecologically sustainable
management. This axiom raises two important questions:(1) what knowledge is the most …

Using species distribution models to predict new occurrences for rare plants

JN Williams, C Seo, J Thorne, JK Nelson… - Diversity and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To evaluate a suite of species distribution models for their utility as predictors of suitable
habitat and as tools for new population discovery of six rare plant species that have both …

Uses and requirements of ecological niche models and related distributional models

AT Peterson - Biodiversity informatics, 2006 - journals.ku.edu
Modeling approaches that relate known occurrences of species to landscape features to
discover ecological properties and predict geographic occurrences have seen extensive …

Abundance and the environmental niche: environmental suitability estimated from niche models predicts the upper limit of local abundance

J VanDerWal, LP Shoo, CN Johnson… - The American …, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
Ecologists seek to understand patterns of distribution and abundance of species. Studies of
distribution often use occurrence data to build models of the environmental niche of a …