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Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity by Blois, Jessica L., Williams, John W., Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Jackson, Stephen T., Ferrier, Simon

“…“Space-for-time” substitution is widely used in biodiversity modeling to infer past or future trajectories of ecological systems from contemporary spatial…”
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Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being by Pecl, Gretta T., Araújo, Miguel B., Bell, Johann D., Blanchard, Julia, Bonebrake, Timothy C., Chen, I-Ching, Clark, Timothy D., Colwell, Robert K., Danielsen, Finn, Evengård, Birgitta, Falconi, Lorena, Ferrier, Simon, Frusher, Stewart, Garcia, Raquel A., Griffis, Roger B., Hobday, Alistair J., Janion-Scheepers, Charlene, Jarzyna, Marta A., Jennings, Sarah, Lenoir, Jonathan, Linnetved, Hlif I., Martin, Victoria Y., McCormack, Phillipa C., McDonald, Jan, Mitchell, Nicola J., Mustonen, Tero, Pandolfi, John M., Pettorelli, Nathalie, Popova, Ekaterina, Robinson, Sharon A., Scheffers, Brett R., Shaw, Justine D., Sorte, Cascade J. B., Strugnell, Jan M., Sunday, Jennifer M., Tuanmu, Mao-Ning, Vergés, Adriana, Villanueva, Cecilia, Wernberg, Thomas, Wapstra, Erik, Williams, Stephen E.

“…Distributions of Earth's species are changing at accelerating rates, increasingly driven by human-mediated climate change. Such changes are already altering…”
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Extracting More Value from Biodiversity Change Observations through Integrated Modeling by Ferrier, Simon

“…Monitoring programs typically focus on selected, better-known elements of biodiversity (e.g., birds and other vertebrates), and monitoring sites are sparsely…”
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A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology by Tucker, Caroline M., Cadotte, Marc W., Carvalho, Silvia B., Davies, T. Jonathan, Ferrier, Simon, Fritz, Susanne A., Grenyer, Rich, Helmus, Matthew R., Jin, Lanna S., Mooers, Arne O., Pavoine, Sandrine, Purschke, Oliver, Redding, David W., Rosauer, Dan F., Winter, Marten, Mazel, Florent

“…ABSTRACT The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines,…”
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Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide by Gray, Claudia L., Hill, Samantha L. L., Newbold, Tim, Hudson, Lawrence N., Börger, Luca, Contu, Sara, Hoskins, Andrew J., Ferrier, Simon, Purvis, Andy, Scharlemann, Jörn P. W.

“…Protected areas are widely considered essential for biodiversity conservation. However, few global studies have demonstrated that protection benefits a broad…”
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Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment by Newbold, Tim, Hudson, Lawrence N., Arnell, Andrew P., Contu, Sara, De Palma, Adriana, Ferrier, Simon, Hill, Samantha L. L., Hoskins, Andrew J., Lysenko, Igor, Phillips, Helen R. P., Burton, Victoria J., Chng, Charlotte W. T., Emerson, Susan, Di, Gao, Pask-Hale, Gwilym, Hutton, Jon, Jung, Martin, Sanchez-Ortiz, Katia, Simmons, Benno I., Whitmee, Sarah, Zhang, Hanbin, Scharlemann, Jörn P. W., Purvis, Andy

“…Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed…”
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Mapping Spatial Pattern in Biodiversity for Regional Conservation Planning: Where to from Here? by Ferrier, Simon, Funk, Vicki

“…Vast gaps in available information on the spatial distribution of biodiversity pose a major challenge for regional conservation planning in many parts of the…”
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Sample Selection Bias and Presence-Only Distribution Models: Implications for Background and Pseudo-Absence Data by Phillips, Steven J., Dudik, Miroslav, Elith, Jane, Graham, Catherine H., Lehmann, Anthony, Leathwick, John, Ferrier, Simon

“…Most methods for modeling species distributions from occurrence records require additional data representing the range of environmental conditions in the…”
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Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity by Burrows, Michael T., Schoeman, David S., Richardson, Anthony J., Molinos, Jorge García, Hoffmann, Ary, Buckley, Lauren B., Moore, Pippa J., Brown, Christopher J., Bruno, John F., Duarte, Carlos M., Halpern, Benjamin S., Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, Kappel, Carrie V., Kiessling, Wolfgang, O’Connor, Mary I., Pandolfi, John M., Parmesan, Camille, Sydeman, William J., Ferrier, Simon, Williams, Kristen J., Poloczanska, Elvira S.

“…Global maps constructed using climate-change velocities to derive spatial trajectories for climatic niches between 1960 and 2100 show past and future shifts in…”
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Climate Velocity Can Inform Conservation in a Warming World by Brito-Morales, Isaac, García Molinos, Jorge, Schoeman, David S., Burrows, Michael T., Poloczanska, Elvira S., Brown, Christopher J., Ferrier, Simon, Harwood, Tom D., Klein, Carissa J., McDonald-Madden, Eve, Moore, Pippa J., Pandolfi, John M., Watson, James E.M., Wenger, Amelia S., Richardson, Anthony J.

“…Climate change is shifting the ranges of species. Simple predictive metrics of range shifts such as climate velocity, that do not require extensive knowledge…”
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Managing consequences of climate‐driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science by Bonebrake, Timothy C., Brown, Christopher J., Bell, Johann D., Blanchard, Julia L., Chauvenet, Alienor, Champion, Curtis, Chen, I‐Ching, Clark, Timothy D., Colwell, Robert K., Danielsen, Finn, Dell, Anthony I., Donelson, Jennifer M., Evengård, Birgitta, Ferrier, Simon, Frusher, Stewart, Garcia, Raquel A., Griffis, Roger B., Hobday, Alistair J., Jarzyna, Marta A., Lee, Emma, Lenoir, Jonathan, Linnetved, Hlif, Martin, Victoria Y., McCormack, Phillipa C., McDonald, Jan, McDonald‐Madden, Eve, Mitchell, Nicola, Mustonen, Tero, Pandolfi, John M., Pettorelli, Nathalie, Possingham, Hugh, Pulsifer, Peter, Reynolds, Mark, Scheffers, Brett R., Sorte, Cascade J. B., Strugnell, Jan M., Tuanmu, Mao‐Ning, Twiname, Samantha, Vergés, Adriana, Villanueva, Cecilia, Wapstra, Erik, Wernberg, Thomas, Pecl, Gretta T.

“…ABSTRACT Climate change is driving a pervasive global redistribution of the planet's species. Species redistribution poses new questions for the study of…”
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Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations by Jetz, Walter, McGeoch, Melodie A., Guralnick, Robert, Ferrier, Simon, Beck, Jan, Costello, Mark J., Fernandez, Miguel, Geller, Gary N., Keil, Petr, Merow, Cory, Meyer, Carsten, Muller-Karger, Frank E., Pereira, Henrique M., Regan, Eugenie C., Schmeller, Dirk S., Turak, Eren

“…Species distributions and abundances are undergoing rapid changes worldwide. This highlights the significance of reliable, integrated information for guiding…”
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Environmental and historical imprints on beta diversity: insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients by Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Sanders, Nathan J., Normand, Signe, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Ferrier, Simon, Gove, Aaron D., Dunn, Robert R.

“…A common approach for analysing geographical variation in biodiversity involves using linear models to determine the rate at which species similarity declines…”
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Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage by Weiskopf, Sarah R., Isbell, Forest, Arce-Plata, Maria Isabel, Marco, Moreno Di, Harfoot, Mike, Johnson, Justin, Lerman, Susannah B., Miller, Brian W., Morelli, Toni Lyn, Mori, Akira S., Weng, Ensheng, Ferrier, Simon

“…Natural ecosystems store large amounts of carbon globally, as organisms absorb carbon from the atmosphere to build large, long-lasting, or slow-decaying…”
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Evaluating the predictive performance of habitat models developed using logistic regression by Pearce, Jennie, Ferrier, Simon

“…The use of statistical models to predict the likely occurrence or distribution of species is becoming an increasingly important tool in conservation planning…”
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Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001–2012 by De Palma, Adriana, Hoskins, Andrew, Gonzalez, Ricardo E., Börger, Luca, Newbold, Tim, Sanchez-Ortiz, Katia, Ferrier, Simon, Purvis, Andy

“…Few biodiversity indicators are available that reflect the state of broad-sense biodiversity—rather than of particular taxa—at fine spatial and temporal…”
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Current Uses of Beta-Diversity in Biodiversity Conservation: A response to Socolar et al by Bush, Alex, Harwood, Tom, Hoskins, Andrew J., Mokany, Karel, Ferrier, Simon

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Controlled comparison of species- and community-level models across novel climates and communities by Maguire, Kaitlin C., Nieto-Lugilde, Diego, Blois, Jessica L., Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Williams, John W., Ferrier, Simon, Lorenz, David J.

“…Species distribution models (SDMs) assume species exist in isolation and do not influence one another's distributions, thus potentially limiting their ability…”
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A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function, and Ecosystem Service Models by Weiskopf, Sarah R, Myers, Bonnie J E, Arce-Plata, Maria Isabel, Blanchard, Julia L, Ferrier, Simon, Fulton, Elizabeth A, Harfoot, Mike, Isbell, Forest, Johnson, Justin A, Mori, Akira S, Weng, Ensheng, HarmáCˇková, Zuzana V, Londoño-Murcia, María Cecilia, Miller, Brian W, Pereira, Laura M, Rosa, Isabel M D

“…Global biodiversity and ecosystem service models typically operate independently. Ecosystem service projections may therefore be overly optimistic because they…”
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Dynamic macroecology and the future for biodiversity by Mokany, Karel, Harwood, Thomas D., Williams, Kristen J., Ferrier, Simon

“…Reliable projections of climate‐change impacts on biodiversity are vital in formulating conservation and management strategies that best retain biodiversity…”
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