Deconstructing the geography of human impacts on species' natural distribution

C Waldock, B Wegscheider, D Josi, BB Calegari… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
It remains unknown how species' populations across their geographic range are constrained
by multiple coincident natural and anthropogenic environmental gradients. Conservation …

Climate Change and Human Activities, the Significant Dynamic Drivers of Himalayan Goral Distribution (Naemorhedus goral)

SM Haq, M Waheed, R Ahmad, RW Bussmann… - Biology, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The objective of our study was to gain a deep understanding about the
role of predicted climate change on the range restricted and high-mountain dwelling animal …

Mind the Gap: A Review of Disjunctions in Coastal Marine Species

V Pagowski, F Micheli - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Many coastal marine species have discontinuous distributions or genetic breakpoints
throughout their geographical ranges. These spatial and genetic disjunctions occur in …

Landscape characteristics in relation to ecosystem services supply: the case of a Mediterranean Forest on the Island of Cyprus

G Kefalas, RS Lorilla, P Xofis, K Poirazidis… - Forests, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
The Mediterranean area is one of the most significantly altered biodiversity hotspots on the
Earth's surface; it has been intensively affected by anthropogenic activity for millennia …

Impacts of Climate Change on the Biogeography and Ecological Structure of Zelkova schneideriana Hand.-Mazz. in China

C Wang, Y Zhang, Q Sheng, Z Zhu - Plants, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
This study utilized the platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions, biomod2, to
predict and quantitatively analyze the distribution changes of Zelkova schneideriana Hand …

Defining the role of Sabellaria alveolata reefs as nursery areas for juvenile fish: first evidence from drone-based imagery and underwater visual census data

D Ventura, SF Dubois, E Cardella, F Colloca… - Marine Ecology …, 2024‏ - int-res.com
The biogenic reefs built by the honeycomb worm Sabellaria alveolata constitute priority
habitats along Atlanto-Mediterranean coastal areas. Despite their wide extent and important …

Multi-generational dispersal and dynamic patch occupancy reveals spatial and temporal stability of seascapes

CH Clubley, TAM Silva, LE Wood, LB Firth… - Science of the Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The success of non-native species (NNS) invasions depends on patterns of dispersal and
connectivity, which underpin genetic diversity, population establishment and growth. In the …

Rapid evaluation of habitat connectivity change to safeguard multispecies persistence in human-transformed landscapes

J Oehri, SLR Wood, E Touratier, B Leung… - Biodiversity and …, 2024‏ - Springer
Following the adoption of the Post-2020 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(KM-GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) there is a clear science-policy …

Assigning trend‐based conservation status despite high uncertainty

RSA White, RJ Stoffels, AL Whitehead - Conservation Biology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of temporal trends in species' occupancy are essential for conservation policy and
planning, but limitations to the data and models often result in very high trend uncertainty. A …

Identifying Priority areas for Conservation of an endangered sand Lizard using Landscape-based Habitat Suitability models

C Block, J Pedrana, OA Stellatelli, LE Vega… - …, 2023‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
Predicting the probability of species occurrence based on environmental variables across
landscapes makes it possible to determine suitable habitats and constitutes an important …