Climate change and invasive species: a physiological performance comparison of invasive and endemic bees in Fiji

CRB Da Silva, JE Beaman, JB Dorey… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Anthropogenic climate change and invasive species are two of the greatest threats to
biodiversity, affecting the survival, fitness and distribution of many species around the globe …

Phylogenetic biome conservatism as a key concept for an integrative understanding of evolutionary history: Galliformes and Falconiformes as study cases

JS Pelegrin, JL Cantalapiedra… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Biomes are climatically and biotically distinctive macroecological units that formed over
geological time scales. Their features consolidate them as 'evolutionary scenarios', with their …

Canopy specialist Hylaeus bees highlight sampling biases and resolve Michener's mystery

JB Dorey, OK Davies, KN Magnacca… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Large parts of the Pacific were thought to host low bee diversity. In Fiji alone, our recent
estimates of native bee diversity have rapidly increased by a factor of five (from 4 to> 22) …

Current status of bees in Fiji-geographical distribution and role in pollination of crop plants

ZT Naaz, R Bibi, JB Dorey - Oriental Insects, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid decline of bee populations over the last decade is thought to be driven by a
combination of environmental change, habitat loss, invasive species, co-introduced disease …

Niche conservatism drives the elevational diversity gradient in major groups of free-living soil unicellular eukaryotes

LD Fernández, CVW Seppey, D Singer, B Fournier… - Microbial Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Ancestral adaptations to tropical-like climates drive most multicellular biogeography and
macroecology. Observational studies suggest that this niche conservatism could also be …

Phylogeography of Aplocheilus panchax in Indonesia, with special focus on the Bangka Island population

D Mustikasari, A Nuryanto, S Suryaningsih - Biodiversitas Journal of …, 2022 - smujo.id
Mustikasari D, Nuryanto A, Suryaningsih S. 2022. Phylogeography of Aplocheilus panchax
in Indonesia, with special focus on the Bangka Island population. Biodiversitas 23: 2035 …

Holocene population expansion of a tropical bee coincides with early human colonization of Fiji rather than climate change

JB Dorey, SVC Groom, A Velasco‐Castrillón… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is substantial debate about the relative roles of climate change and human activities
on biodiversity and species demographies over the Holocene. In some cases, these two …

The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation

JA Nations, BA Kohli, H Handika, AS Achmadi… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Communities that occupy similar environments but vary in the richness of closely related
species can illuminate how functional variation and species richness interact to fill …

Semi‐quantitative metabarcoding reveals how climate shapes arthropod community assembly along elevation gradients on Hawaii Island

JY Lim, J Patiño, S Noriyuki, L Cayetano… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial variation in climatic conditions along elevation gradients provides an important
backdrop by which communities assemble and diversify. Lowland habitats tend to be …

Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity

L Herrera-Alsina, R Parvanova, J Guirguis… - Evolution …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Despite the high importance and risk of mountain ecosystems in global biodiversity
conservation, the mechanisms giving rise to and maintaining elevational biodiversity …