Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter

A Estrada, PA Garber, AB Rylands, C Roos… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

JA Pilowsky, RK Colwell, C Rahbek, DA Fordham - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have
the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and …

Global protected areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

C Mi, L Ma, M Yang, X Li, S Meiri, U Roll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we
collated distributional data for> 14,000 (~ 70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles …

A climate risk index for marine life

DG Boyce, DP Tittensor, C Garilao, S Henson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change is impacting virtually all marine life. Adaptation strategies will require a
robust understanding of the risks to species and ecosystems and how those propagate to …

Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk

JP Bird, R Martin, HR Akçakaya, J Gilroy… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Birds have been comprehensively assessed on the International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN) Red List more times than any other taxonomic group. However, to date …

Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

M Pfeifer, V Lefebvre, CA Peres, C Banks-Leite… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Forest edges influence more than half of the world's forests and contribute to worldwide
declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, predicting these declines is …

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 …

Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

MC Urban, G Bocedi, AP Hendry, JB Mihoub, G Pe'Er… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND As global climate change accelerates, one of the most urgent tasks for the
coming decades is to develop accurate predictions about biological responses to guide the …

Advances in monitoring and modelling climate at ecologically relevant scales

I Bramer, BJ Anderson, J Bennie, AJ Bladon… - Advances in ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Most ecological studies of the effects of climate on species are based on average conditions
above ground level (measured by meteorological stations) averaged across 100 km 2 or …

Forecasting species range dynamics with process‐explicit models: matching methods to applications

NJ Briscoe, J Elith, R Salguero‐Gómez… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Knowing where species occur is fundamental to many ecological and environmental
applications. Species distribution models (SDMs) are typically based on correlations …