Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict

B Abrahms, NH Carter, TJ Clark-Wolf… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change and human–wildlife conflict are both pressing challenges for biodiversity
conservation and human well-being in the Anthropocene. Climate change is a critical yet …

Ecological niche models and species distribution models in marine environments: A literature review and spatial analysis of evidence

SM Melo-Merino, H Reyes-Bonilla, A Lira-Noriega - Ecological Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the use of ecological niche models (ENMs) and species distribution models
(SDMs) to explore the patterns and processes behind observed distribution of species has …

Impacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable

H Welch, MS Savoca, S Brodie, MG Jacox… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves cause widespread environmental, biological, and socio-economic
impacts, placing them at the forefront of 21st-century management challenges. However …

Hot spots of unseen fishing vessels

H Welch, T Clavelle, TD White, MA Cimino… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing incurs an annual cost of up to US $25
billion in economic losses, results in substantial losses of aquatic life, and has been linked to …

Machine learning in marine ecology: an overview of techniques and applications

P Rubbens, S Brodie, T Cordier… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine learning covers a large set of algorithms that can be trained to identify
patterns in data. Thanks to the increase in the amount of data and computing power …

Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world's largest fish, the whale shark

FC Womersley, NE Humphries… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Marine traffic is increasing globally yet collisions with endangered megafauna such as
whales, sea turtles, and planktivorous sharks go largely undetected or unreported …

The niche through time: Considering phenology and demographic stages in plant distribution models

D Zurell, NE Zimmermann, P Brun - Journal of Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to infer species–environment
relationships, predict spatial distributions and characterise species' environmental niches …

Trade‐offs in covariate selection for species distribution models: a methodological comparison

SJ Brodie, JT Thorson, G Carroll, EL Hazen… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are a common approach to describing species' space‐
use and spatially‐explicit abundance. With a myriad of model types, methods and …

Widespread habitat loss and redistribution of marine top predators in a changing ocean

CD Braun, N Lezama-Ochoa, N Farchadi… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The Northwest Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico are among the fastest warming ocean
regions, a trend that is expected to continue through this century with far-reaching …

The sounds of life: How digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants

K Bakker - 2022 - torrossa.com
Compared with our cousins on the Tree of Life, humans are poor listeners. 1 Below the
lower end of human hearing lies deep infrasound: the realm of thunder and tornadoes …