Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate for
the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling …

Background Changes in Earth's climate over time can be measured in many ways. The
different metrics available represent alternative dimensions of climate change, each with …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

Aim Beta diversity (variation of the species composition of assemblages) may reflect two
different phenomena, spatial species turnover and nestedness of assemblages, which result …

A precise knowledge of the spatial distribution of taxa is essential for decision-making
processes in land management and biodiversity conservation, both for present and under …

The effects of climate change on biodiversity should depend in part on climate displacement
rate (climate-change velocity) and its interaction with species' capacity to migrate. We …

Amphibian population declines far exceed those of other vertebrate groups, with 30% of all
species listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature,,. The …

Climate refugia, locations where taxa survive periods of regionally adverse climate, are
thought to be critical for maintaining biodiversity through the glacial–interglacial climate …