Abstract Despite islands contributing only 6.7% of land surface area, they harbor~ 20% of
the Earth's biodiversity, but unfortunately also~ 50% of the threatened species and 75% of …

Climate change may be an important threat to global biodiversity, potentially leading to the
extinction of numerous species. But how many? There have been various attempts to …

Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Research in Macaronesia has led to substantial advances in ecology, evolution and
conservation biology. We review the scientific developments achieved in this region, and …

Islands harbour evolutionary and ecologically unique biota, which are currently
disproportionately threatened by a multitude of anthropogenic factors, including habitat loss …

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 …

Aim Understanding how grain size affects our ability to characterize species responses to
ongoing climate change is of crucial importance in the context of an increasing awareness …

Aim A fundamental challenge to protected area‐based conservation is that protected areas
are typically established under assumptions of environmental stationarity. With a rapidly …

Extinction risk is not randomly distributed among species but depends on species traits, their
relationship to climate and land use, and corresponding threats by global change. While …

The study of elevational patterns is a valuable method for inferring the influence of the
climate and other variables in the regional distributions of species. Bryophytes are ideal for …