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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
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutive immune function variation across the non‐breeding season in an extreme long‐distance migrant

Journal of Avian Biology
Migratory animals often display remarkable adaptations in order to successfully complete their journeys. While there is substantial evidence on immunomodulation during breeding and at stopover sites en route, the immune status of migratory birds upon ...
José O. Valdebenito, Valeria Araya, Enzo Basso, Gabriela Biscarra, Camila Gherardi‐Fuentes, Natalia Martínez‐Curci, Daniela P. Nualart, John Quiroga, Jorge Ruiz, Luis Vargas‐Chacoff, Jonathan Vergara‐Amado, Juan G. Navedo   +11 more
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Geodiversity is an inseparable but underutilized aspect of ecological connectivity assessments under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Conservation has shifted towards a climate change adaptation approach in which expected species range shifts are increasingly considered to mitigate effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. As part of this, ecological connectivity needs to be ensured to support gene flow and viable populations in the face of changing ...
Aino‐Maija Määttänen, Maria Hällfors, Julia Kemppinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Environmental and geomorphological drivers of frog diversity on islands worldwide

Ecography, EarlyView.
Island biogeography models primarily rely on island physical features and isolation to explain their biodiversity patterns. While newer models have incorporated functional traits to understand plant distribution, few empirical studies have tried to disentangle geometric constraints from niche‐based processes to predict multiple diversity facets of ...
Raoni Rebouças, Matheus de T. Moroti, Tamilie Carvalho, Márcio Martins, Luís Felipe Toledo, Diogo B. Provete   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lagged responses in the composition of small mammal communities to a century of climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change has widespread effects on the distribution, abundance and behavior of species around the world, leading to the reshuffling of ecological communities. However, it remains unclear whether individual species' range shifts scale up to result in communities whose rate of change lag, lead, or track the rate of climate change. We capitalized on
Ethan Abercrombie, Jonathan A. Myers, Richard L. Usdin, Adam B. Smith   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

It\u27s the Supreme Law of the Land : Using the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to Protect Isolated Wetlands Left High and Dry by SWANCC [PDF]

, 2005
Flanagan, Erin R.
core   +2 more sources

Long unobserved and recently discovered: towards a better understanding of protected‐area species dynamics using curated species lists

Ecography, EarlyView.
Protected areas are designed to shield populations from harmful human impacts. However, in the face of global climate change, a static approach to conservation within these areas is neither feasible nor desirable. One key measure of ecological change at this scale is the arrival of new species and the local extinction of others. Despite strong interest
Thomas Mesaglio, Elizabeth Wenk, Hervé Sauquet, William K. Cornwell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends

Ecography, EarlyView.
Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land‐use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land‐use gradients and other space‐for‐time comparisons. Much depends on whether the chosen baseline has already undergone shifts in species composition because of ...
Ariane Dellavalle, Adam J. M. Devenish, Crinan Jarrett, Nathaniel N. D. Annorbah, Augustus Asamoah, Kwame Boafo, Poppy E. Lane, Jake Owen, Alexandra C. Morel, Mark F. Hulme, Andreanna J. Welch, Ken Norris, Fiona J. Sanderson, Joseph A. Tobias   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the origins and evolution of nymphalid butterflies (Lepidoptera) in the Atlantic Forest

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding the relative roles of diversification and dispersal is key to explaining large‐scale biogeographical patterns. Although both processes are known to shape biodiversity, their relative contributions remain understudied for many organisms. Here, we examine how these processes have jointly contributed to the exceptional diversity and endemism
Mar Repullés, Nicolas Chazot, Leidys Murillo‐ Ramos, Marianne Espeland, Karina Lucas Silva‐ Brandão, Alexandre Antonelli, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Pável Matos‐ Maraví   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source