The duality between “niche” and “biotope” proposed by G. Evelyn Hutchinson provides a
powerful way to conceptualize and analyze biogeographical distributions in relation to …

The S outh A merican continent is composed of several biogeographical regions harbouring
the highest biodiversity on the globe, encompassing five of the world's biodiversity 'hot …

MaxEnt is a program for modelling species distributions from presence‐only species
records. This paper is written for ecologists and describes the MaxEnt model from a …

Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species'
occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once …

Aim To assess ancient biotic connections between the Amazon Forest (AmF) and the
Atlantic Forest (AtF) based on environmental niche modelling (ENM), palaeobiological, and …

Biodiversity hotspots, representing regions with high species endemism and conservation
threat, have been mapped globally. Yet, biodiversity distribution data from within hotspots …

Species distribution models can be affected by overprediction when dispersal movement is
not incorporated into the modelling process. We compared the efficiency of seven methods …

Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

The forest refuge hypothesis (FRH) has long been a paradigm for explaining the extreme
biological diversity of tropical forests. According to this hypothesis, forest retraction and …