Reversing defaunation: restoring species in a changing world

PJ Seddon, CJ Griffiths, PS Soorae, DP Armstrong - Science, 2014 - science.org
The rate of biodiversity loss is not slowing despite global commitments, and the depletion of
animal species can reduce the stability of ecological communities. Despite this continued …

Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

M Pacifici, WB Foden, P Visconti, JEM Watson… - Nature climate …, 2015 - nature.com
The effects of climate change on biodiversity are increasingly well documented, and many
methods have been developed to assess species' vulnerability to climatic changes, both …

Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling

MB Araújo, AT Peterson - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species'
occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once …

Migratory behavior and winter geography drive differential range shifts of eastern birds in response to recent climate change

CS Rushing, JA Royle… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Over the past half century, migratory birds in North America have shown divergent
population trends relative to resident species, with the former declining rapidly and the latter …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011 - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

The compadre Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

R Salguero‐Gómez, OR Jones, CR Archer… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Schedules of survival, growth and reproduction are key life‐history traits. Data on how these
traits vary among species and populations are fundamental to our understanding of the …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Birds and climate change: impacts and conservation responses

JW Pearce-Higgins, RE Green - 2014 - books.google.com
From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can
provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems …

Range S hifter: a platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes

G Bocedi, SCF Palmer, G Pe'er… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid environmental changes are threatening biodiversity and exposing species to novel
ecological and evolutionary pressures. The scientific community increasingly recognizes the …

RangeShifter 2.0: An extended and enhanced platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes

G Bocedi, SCF Palmer, AK Malchow, D Zurell… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Process‐based models are becoming increasingly used tools for understanding how
species are likely to respond to environmental changes and to potential management …