The range of resources that a species uses (ie its niche breadth) might determine the
geographical area it can occupy, but consensus on whether a niche breadth–range size …

Biological records are one of the most important sources of data for a large number of
research areas. For example, their application has made valuable contributions to climate …

Species differ in their biological susceptibility to extinction, but the set of traits determining
susceptibility varies across taxa. It is yet unclear which patterns are common to all taxa, and …

We examined the hypothesis that ecological niche models (ENM s) more accurately predict
species distributions when they incorporate information on population genetic structure, and …

Ensemble forecasting is advocated as a way of reducing uncertainty in species distribution
modeling (SDM). This is because it is expected to balance accuracy and robustness of SDM …

Air temperatures have increased globally over the past decades, while rainfall changes
have been more variable, but are taking place. In South Africa, substantial climate-related …

Climate change is likely to impact multiple dimensions of biodiversity. Species range shifts
are expected and may drive changes in the composition of species assemblages. In some …

Aim Climate change can lead to decreased climatic suitability within species' distributions,
increased fragmentation of climatically suitable space, and/or emergence of newly suitable …

Opportunistic and unstructured observations of biodiversity crowdsourced from volunteers,
community, and citizen scientists make up an increasingly large proportion of our global …

Species conservation plans frequently rely on information that spans political and
administrative boundaries, especially when predictions are needed of future habitat under …