Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French AlpsEcography - Tập 36 Số 3 - Trang 393-402 - 2013
Francesco de Bello, Sandra Lavorel, Sébastien Lavergne, Cécile H. Albert, Isabelle Boulangeat, Florent Mazel, Wilfried Thuiller
Understanding the influence of the environment on the functional structure of ecological communities is essential to predict the response of biodiversity to global change drivers. Ecological theory suggests that multiple environmental factors shape local species assemblages by progressively filtering species from the regional species pool to local communities. These successive filters shou...... hiện toàn bộ
Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluationEcography - Tập 31 Số 2 - Trang 161-175 - 2008
Steven J. Phillips, Miroslav Dudík
Accurate modeling of geographic distributions of species is crucial to various applications in ecology and conservation. The best performing techniques often require some parameter tuning, which may be prohibitively time‐consuming to do separately for each species, or unreliable for small or biased datasets. Additionally, even with the abundance of good quality data, users interested in th...... hiện toàn bộ
spThin: an R package for spatial thinning of species occurrence records for use in ecological niche modelsEcography - Tập 38 Số 5 - Trang 541-545 - 2015
Matthew Aiello‐Lammens, Robert A. Boria, Aleksandar Radosavljević, Bruno Vilela, Robert P. Anderson
Spatial thinning of species occurrence records can help address problems associated with spatial sampling biases. Ideally, thinning removes the fewest records necessary to substantially reduce the effects of sampling bias, while simultaneously retaining the greatest amount of useful information. Spatial thinning can be done manually; however, this is prohibitively time consuming for large ...... hiện toàn bộ
Modelling spatial patterns in harbour porpoise satellite telemetry data using maximum entropyEcography - Tập 33 Số 4 - Trang 698-708 - 2010
Susi Manuela Clermont Edrén, Mary S. Wisz, Jonas Teilmann, Runé Dietz, Johan Söderkvist
The distribution of harbour porpoises in EU waters is poorly understood, and modelled predictions of their distributions could inform the strategic spatial planning of future exploitation of the marine environment to avoid potential conflicts. We analysed satellite telemetry data from 39 harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in inner Danish waters using a modelling...... hiện toàn bộ
Niche conservatism among non‐native vertebrates in Europe and North AmericaEcography - Tập 38 Số 3 - Trang 321-329 - 2015
Diederik Strubbe, Olivier Beauchard, Erik Matthysen
Niche conservatism, the hypothesis that niches remain constant through time and space, is crucial for the study of biological invasions as it underlies native‐range based predictions of invasion risk. Niche changes between native and non‐native populations are increasingly reported. However, it has been argued that these changes arise mainly because in their novel range, species occupy onl...... hiện toàn bộ
Where is positional uncertainty a problem for species distribution modelling?Ecography - Tập 37 Số 2 - Trang 191-203 - 2014
Babak Naimi, Nicholas Hamm, T.A. Groen, Andrew K. Skidmore, Albertus G. Toxopeus
Species data held in museum and herbaria, survey data and opportunistically observed data are a substantial information resource. A key challenge in using these data is the uncertainty about where an observation is located. This is important when the data are used for species distribution modelling (SDM), because the coordinates are used to extract the environmental variables and thus, pos...... hiện toàn bộ
sdm: a reproducible and extensible R platform for species distribution modellingEcography - Tập 39 Số 4 - Trang 368-375 - 2016
Babak Naimi, Miguel B. Araújo
sdm is an object‐oriented, reproducible and extensible, platform for species distribution modelling. It uses individual species and community‐based approaches, enabling ensembles of models to be fitted and evaluated, to project species potential distributions in space and time. It provides a standardized and unified structure for handling species distributions data and modelling techniques...... hiện toàn bộ
Contemporary richness of holarctic trees and the historical pattern of glacial retreatEcography - Tập 30 Số 2 - Trang 173-182 - 2007
Daniel Montoya, Miguel Á. Rodrı́guez, Miguel Á. Zavala, Bradford A. Hawkins
The length of time land has been available for colonization by plants and other organisms could provide a partial explanation of the contemporary richness gradients of trees. According to this hypothesis, increasing times of land availability entail higher chances of recolonization, which eventually have positive effects on tree richness. To test this, we generated a dataset of the Holarct...... hiện toàn bộ