Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

S Mammola, J Pétillon, A Hacala… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the
equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and …

Climate change extinctions

MC Urban - Science, 2024 - science.org
Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting
those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections …

Long-term changes in populations of rainforest birds in the Australia Wet Tropics bioregion: A climate-driven biodiversity emergency

SE Williams, A de la Fuente - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Many authors have suggested that the vulnerability of montane biodiversity to climate
change worldwide is significantly higher than in most other ecosystems. Despite the …

Ant diversity and distribution along elevation gradients in the Australian wet tropics: the importance of seasonal moisture stability

S Nowrouzi, AN Andersen, S Macfadyen, KM Staunton… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The threat of anthropogenic climate change has seen a renewed focus on understanding
contemporary patterns of species distribution. This is especially the case for the biota of …

Seasonal variation in a diverse beetle assemblage along two elevational gradients in the Australian Wet Tropics

CW Wardhaugh, MJ Stone, NE Stork - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Altered abiotic conditions resulting from human-induced climate change are already driving
changes in the spatial and temporal distributions of many organisms. For insects, how …

Is thermal limitation the primary driver of elevational distributions? Not for montane rainforest ants in the Australian Wet Tropics

S Nowrouzi, AN Andersen, TR Bishop, SKA Robson - Oecologia, 2018 - Springer
Terrestrial ectotherms are likely to be especially sensitive to rising temperatures over coming
decades. Thermal limits are used to measure climatic tolerances that potentially affect …

Evaluating the impact of future climate and forest cover change on the ability of Southeast (SE) Asia's protected areas to provide coverage to the habitats of threatened …

M Singh - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change and forest loss pose a significant threat to the long-term persistence of avian
species in Southeast (SE) Asia. In this research, we assessed the impact of present and …

Species distribution modelling of the endangered Mahogany Glider (Petaurus gracilis) reveals key areas for targeted survey and conservation

Y Chang, LV Bertola, CJ Hoskin - Austral Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mahogany Glider (Petaurus gracilis) is one of the most endangered marsupials
in Australia. Its known distribution is an approximately 120 km strip of fragmented coastal …

Predicting soil micro-variables and the distribution of an endogeic earthworm species through a model based on large-scale variables

DF Marchán, P Refoyo, M Novo, R Fernández… - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Studies on spatial patterns of distributions of soil dwelling animals have usually relied on
soil micro-variables or statistical analyses based on presence/absence data. Geographic …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and Distribution of the Dominant Ant Genus Anonychomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Australian Wet Tropics

L Leahy, BR Scheffers, SE Williams, AN Andersen - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Anonychomyrma is a dolichoderine ant genus of cool-temperate Gondwanan origin with a
current distribution that extends from the north of southern Australia into the Australasian …