The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology Tập 26 Số 4 - Trang 867-878 - 1999
Jeffrey C. Nekola, Peter S. White
SummaryAimOur aim was to understand how similarity changes with distance in biological communities, to use the distance decay perspective as quantitative technique to describe biogeographic pattern, and to explore whether growth form, dispersal type, rarity, or support affected the rate of distance decay in similarity.... hiện toàn bộ Scale and species richness: towards a general, hierarchical theory of species diversity Tập 28 Số 4 - Trang 453-470 - 2001
Robert J. Whittaker, Katherine J. Willis, Richard Field
AimCurrent weaknesses of diversity theory include: a failure to distinguish different biogeographical response variables under the general heading of diversity; and a general failure of ecological theory to deal adequately with geographical scale. Our aim is to articulate the case for a top‐down approach to theory building, in which scale is addressed exp...... hiện toàn bộ Making better Maxent models of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation Tập 41 Số 4 - Trang 629-643 - 2014
Aleksandar Radosavljević, Robert P. Anderson
AbstractAimModels of species niches and distributions have become invaluable to biogeographers over the past decade, yet several outstanding methodological issues remain. Here we address three critical ones: selecting appropriate evaluation data, detecting overfitting, and tuning program settings to approximate optimal model compl...... hiện toàn bộ Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis Tập 40 Số 9 - Trang 1649-1663 - 2013
Lenore Fahrig
AbstractI challenge (1) the assumption that habitat patches are natural units of measurement for species richness, and (2) the assumption of distinct effects of habitat patch size and isolation on species richness. I propose a simpler view of the relationship between habitat distribution and species richness, the ‘habitat amount hypothesis’, and I suggest ways of t...... hiện toàn bộ The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth Tập 38 Số 12 - Trang 2223-2236 - 2011
David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M. D’Antonio, Ruth DeFries, Fay H. Johnston, Jon E. Keeley, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, Michelle C. Mack, Max A. Moritz, Stephen J. Pyne, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Navjot S. Sodhi, Thomas W. Swetnam
Phylogeography: retrospect and prospect Tập 36 Số 1 - Trang 3-15 - 2009
John C. Avise
AbstractPhylogeography has grown explosively in the two decades since the word was coined and the discipline was outlined in 1987. Here I summarize the many achievements and novel perspectives that phylogeography has brought to population genetics, phylogenetic biology and biogeography. I also address future directions for the field. From the introduction of mitoch...... hiện toàn bộ Model‐based uncertainty in species range prediction Tập 33 Số 10 - Trang 1704-1711 - 2006
Richard G. Pearson, Wilfried Thuiller, Miguel B. Araújo, Enrique Martínez‐Meyer, Lluís Brotóns, Colin J. McClean, Lera Miles, Pedro Segurado, Terence P. Dawson, David C. Lees
AbstractAim Many attempts to predict the potential range of species rely on environmental niche (or ‘bioclimate envelope’) modelling, yet the effects of using different niche‐based methodologies require further investigation. Here we investigate the impact that the choice of model can have on predictions, identify key reasons why model outpu...... hiện toàn bộ Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe Tập 33 Số 10 - Trang 1712-1728 - 2006
Miguel B. Araújo, Wilfried Thuiller, Richard G. Pearson
AbstractAim We explore the relationship between current European distributions of amphibian and reptile species and observed climate, and project species potential distributions into the future. Potential impacts of climate warming are assessed by quantifying the magnitude and direction of modelled distributional shifts for every species. In...... hiện toàn bộ