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Trends in marine species distribution models: a review of methodological advances and future challenges

Ecography, EarlyView.
Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are quantitative tools in biogeography and macroecology. Building upon the ecological niche concept, they correlate environmental covariates to species presence to model habitat suitability and predict species distributions.
Moritz Klaassen, Tiago A. Marques, Filipe Alves, Marc Fernandez   +3 more
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Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution

Pathogens, 2018
This review considers current knowledge surrounding species boundaries of the Armillaria root-rot pathogens and their distribution. In addition, a phylogenetic tree using translation elongation factor subunit 1-alpha (tef-1α) from isolates across ...
Martin P.A. Coetzee, Brenda D. Wingfield, Michael J. Wingfield   +2 more
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Differential response to abiotic stress controls species distributions at biogeographic transition zones [PDF]

, 2017
Understanding range limits is critical to predicting species responses to climate change. Subtropical environments, where many species overlap at their range margins, are cooler, more light-limited and variable than tropical environments.
Sommer, B, Beger, M, Harrison, PL, Babcock, RC, Pandolfi, JM   +4 more
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Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics

Ecography, EarlyView.
Freshwater environments are intertwined with human activities and the consequence has been environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Fish provide key ecological and economic benefits, and fish abundance and diversity can be affected by human activities resulting in functional diversity (FD) changes that might scale up to ecosystem impacts ...
Romullo Guimarães de Sá Ferreira Lima, Bruno Eleres Soares, Marc Cadotte, Míriam Pilz Albrecht   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxa‐dependent temporal trends in the abundance and size of sea urchins in subtropical eastern Australia

Ecology and Evolution
Subtropical reefs host a dynamic mix of tropical, subtropical, and temperate species that is changing due to shifts in the abundance and distribution of species in response to ocean warming.
Emily McLaren, Brigitte Sommer, John M. Pandolfi, Maria Beger, Maria Byrne   +4 more
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Reply to ‘Dissimilarity measures affected by richness differences yield biased delimitations of biogeographic realms’

Nature Communications, 2018
Recently, we classified the oceans into 30 biogeographic realms based on species’ endemicity. Castro-Insua et al. criticize the choices of dissimilarity coefficients and clustering approaches used in our paper, and reanalyse the data using alternative ...
Mark J. Costello, Peter Tsai, Alan Kwok Lun Cheung, Zeenatul Basher, Chhaya Chaudhary   +4 more
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(Micro)evolutionary changes and the evolutionary potential of bird migration

, 2018
Seasonal migration is the yearly long-distance movement of individuals between their breeding and wintering grounds. Individuals from nearly every animal group exhibit this behavior, but probably the most iconic migration is carried out by birds, from ...
A Helbig, A Helbig, A Johnsen, AC Perdeck, AJ Helbig, AP Møller, BM Winger, BM Winger, Butlin R et al, The Marie Curie Speciation Network, C Bell, D Schluter, DE Irwin, DL Rabosky, E Schüz, E Schüz, E Yohannes, ESC Scordato, F Pulido, F Pulido, F Pulido, G Bazzi, G Rolshausen, G Voelker, GM Hewitt, GM Hewitt, GW Cox, H Rundle, HA Hochbaum, J Belliure, J Rappole, J Rolland, JA Rönn von, JB Phillips, JC Müller, JH Brown, JH Rappole, JS Lugo Ramos, K Ruegg, KA Hobson, KE Delmore, KE Delmore, KE Delmore, KE Delmore, KE Delmore, KE Plummer, KG O’Malley, M Caprioli, M Liedvogel, M Liedvogel, M Liedvogel, M Lundberg, N Chernetsov, N Chernetsov, N Saino, N Saino, P Berthold, P Berthold, P Berthold, P Berthold, P Berthold, P Nosil, PP Marra, PR Grant, R Dor, R Dor, R Mettler, R Zink, RJ Safran, RM Zink, S Bearhop, S Lamichhaney, S Rohwer, S Zhan, T Alerstam, T Veen, TD Price, V Salewski, VL Friesen, W Wiltschko, W Wiltschko, W Wiltschko, WW Cochran   +81 more
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The scaling of seed‐dispersal specialization in interaction networks across levels of organization

Ecography, EarlyView.
Natural ecosystems are characterized by a specialization pattern where few species are common while many others are rare. In ecological networks involving biotic interactions, specialization operates as a continuum at individual, species, and community levels. Theory predicts that ecological and evolutionary factors can primarily explain specialization.
Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Pedro Luna, Wesley Dáttilo, Fabricio Villalobos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differential temporal beta‐diversity patterns of native and non‐native arthropod species in a fragmented native forest landscape [PDF]

, 2018
An important factor that hinders the management of non‐native species is a general lack of information regarding the biogeography of non‐natives, and, in particular, their rates of turnover.
Borges, Paulo A. V., Carvalho, Rui, Matthews, Thomas J., Nunes, Rui, Sadler, Jon   +4 more
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source