Search Results - "Journal of biogeography"

Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder-event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection by Ree, Richard H., Sanmartín, Isabel

“…Phylogenese studies of geographic range evolution are increasingly using statistical model selection methods to choose among variants of the…”
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Why mountains matter for biodiversity by Perrigo, Allison, Hoorn, Carina, Antonelli, Alexandre

“…Mountains are arguably Earth's most striking features. They play a major role in determining global and regional climates, are the source of most rivers, act…”
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Without quality presence–absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance by Leroy, Boris, Delsol, Robin, Hugueny, Bernard, Meynard, Christine N., Barhoumi, Chéïma, Barbet-Massin, Morgane, Bellard, Céline

“…The discriminating capacity (i.e. ability to correctly classify presences and absences) of species distribution models (SDMs) is commonly evaluated with…”
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Making better Maxent models of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation by Radosavljevic, Aleksandar, Anderson, Robert P, Araújo, Miguel

“…AIM: Models of species niches and distributions have become invaluable to biogeographers over the past decade, yet several outstanding methodological issues…”
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A quantitative synthesis of the importance of variables used in MaxEnt species distribution models by Bradie, Johanna, Leung, Brian

“…Aim: To synthesize the species distribution modelling (SDM) literature to inform which variables have been used in MaxEnt models for different taxa and to…”
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Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis by Fahrig, Lenore

“…I challenge (1) the assumption that habitat patches are natural units of measurement for species richness, and (2) the assumption of distinct effects of…”
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Selecting thresholds for the prediction of species occurrence with presence-only data by Liu, Canran, White, Matt, Newell, Graeme

“…Aim: Species distribution models have been widely used to tackle ecological, evolutionary and conservation problems. Most species distribution modelling…”
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The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos by Flantua, Suzette G.A., O'Dea, Aaron, Onstein, Renske E., Giraldo, Catalina, Hooghiemstra, Henry

“…Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods…”
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GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography by Weigelt, Patrick, König, Christian, Kreft, Holger

“…Aim To understand how functional traits and evolutionary history shape the geographic distribution of plant life on Earth, we need to integrate high‐quality…”
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Why are there so many species in the tropics? by Brown, James H.

“…Known for centuries, the geographical pattern of increasing biodiversity from the poles to the equator is one of the most pervasive features of life on Earth…”
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Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the Solanaceae by Dupin, Julia, Matzke, Nicholas J., Särkinen, Tiina, Knapp, Sandra, Olmstead, Richard G., Bohs, Lynn, Smith, Stacey D.

“…Aim The tomato family Solanaceae is distributed on all major continents except Antarctica and has its centre of diversity in South America. Its worldwide…”
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Model complexity affects species distribution projections under climate change by Brun, Philipp, Thuiller, Wilfried, Chauvier, Yohann, Pellissier, Loïc, Wüest, Rafael O., Wang, Zhiheng, Zimmermann, Niklaus E.

“…Aim Statistical species distribution models (SDMs) are the most common tool to predict the impact of climate change on biodiversity. They can be tuned to fit…”
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The International Tree‐Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) revisited: Data availability and global ecological representativity by Zhao, Shoudong, Pederson, Neil, D'Orangeville, Loïc, HilleRisLambers, Janneke, Boose, Emery, Penone, Caterina, Bauer, Bruce, Jiang, Yuan, Manzanedo, Rubén D.

“…Aim The International Tree‐Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) is the most comprehensive database of tree growth. To evaluate its usefulness and improve its accessibility…”
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The historical connections between the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest revisited by Ledo, Roger Maia Dias, Colli, Guarino Rinaldi

“…Aim: To assess ancient biotic connections between the Amazon Forest (AmF) and the Atlantic Forest (AtF) based on environmental niche modelling (ENM),…”
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A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of "The Theory of Island Biogeography" by Patiño, Jairo, Whittaker, Robert J., Borges, Paulo A.V., Fernández-Palacios, José María, Ah-Peng, Claudine, Araújo, Miguel B., Ávila, Sergio P., Cardoso, Pedro, Cornuault, Josselin, de Boer, Erik J., de Nascimento, Lea, Gil, Artur, González-Castro, Aarón, Gruner, Daniel S., Heleno, Ruben, Hortal, Joaquín, Illera, Juan Carlos, Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N., Matthews, Thomas J., Papadopoulou, Anna, Pettorelli, Nathalie, Price, Jonathan P., Santos, Ana M. C., Steinbauer, Manuel J., Triantis, Kostas A., Valente, Luis, Vargas, Pablo, Weigelt, Patrick, Emerson, Brent C.

“…Aims The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely…”
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The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth by Bowman, David M. J. S., Balch, Jennifer, Artaxo, Paulo, Bond, William J., Cochrane, Mark A., D'Antonio, Carla M., DeFries, Ruth, Johnston, Fay H., Keeley, Jon E., Krawchuk, Meg A., Kull, Christian A., Mack, Michelle, Moritz, Max A., Pyne, Stephen, Roos, Christopher I., Scott, Andrew C., Sodhi, Navjot S., Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire-making species, but 'natural' (i.e. independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on…”
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Outstanding plant endemism levels strongly support the recognition of campo rupestre provinces in mountaintops of eastern South America by Colli‐Silva, Matheus, Vasconcelos, Thais N. C., Pirani, José Rubens

“…Aim The Brazilian campo rupestre is a vegetation associated to ancient mountaintops in eastern South America, spread mainly over disjunct areas of the…”
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Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy by Dormann, Carsten F., Schymanski, Stanislaus J., Cabral, Juliano, Chuine, Isabelle, Graham, Catherine, Hartig, Florian, Kearney, Michael, Morin, Xavier, Römermann, Christine, Schröder, Boris, Singer, Alexander

“…Within the field of species distribution modelling an apparent dichotomy exists between process-based and correlative approaches, where the processes are…”
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Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities by Burgin, Connor J., Dorman, Wendy A., Anderson, Robert C., Vigneron, Jessica G., Barve, Vijay, Dombrowik, Victoria L., Guralnick, Robert, Maypole, J. Krish, Schuerkmann, Anna, Torselli, Michael A., Lacher, Thomas, Wilson, Don E., Abba, Agustín M., Astúa, Diego, Braulik, Gill, Braun, Janet K., Busher, Peter E., Camacho, M. Alejandra, Chiquito, Elisandra, Csorba, Gábor, Cuéllar Soto, Erika, Davenport, Tim R. B., Deméré, Thomas, Dickman, Christopher R., Eldridge, Mark D. B., Fernandez‐Duque, Eduardo, Francis, Charles M., Frankham, Greta, Freitas, Thales, Friend, J. Anthony, Garbino, Guilherme S. T., Giannini, Norberto, Giarla, Thomas, Gongora, Jaime, Goodman, Steven M., Hackländer, Klaus, Hafner, Mark S., Hawkins, Melissa, Heritage, Steven, Hinckley, Arlo, Hintsche, Stefan, Holden, Mary, Holekamp, Kay E., Honeycutt, Rodney L., Humle, Tatyana, Ibáñez Ulargui, Carlos, Janecka, Jan, Janecka, Mary, Juškaitis, Rimvydas, Juste, Javier, Kays, Roland, Kilpatrick, C. William, Kingston, Tigga, Kryštufek, Boris, Lee, Thomas E., Novaes, Roberto Leonan M., Lissovsky, Andrey, López‐Antoñanzas, Raquel, MacLeod, Colin D., Mares, Michael A., Marsh, Helene, Mattioli, Stefano, Meijaard, Erik, Monadjem, Ara, Morton, F. Blake, Musser, Grace, Norris, Ryan W., Ojeda, Agustina, Ordóñez‐Garza, Nicté, Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J., Pennay, Michael, Prado, Joyce, Queiroz, Helder L., Richardson, Matthew, Rossiter, Stephen J., Rubenstein, Daniel I., Ruelas, Dennisse, Schai‐Braun, Stéphanie, Schank, Cody J., Schwitzer, Christoph, Sheeran, Lori K., Shekelle, Myron, Shenbrot, Georgy, Superina, Mariella, Taber, Andrew B., Talebi, Maurício, Vu Dinh, Thong, Ting, Nelson, Tirira, Diego G., Tsang, Susan, Veron, Geraldine, Wallis, Janette, Wells, Rod, Whittaker, Danielle, Williamson, Elizabeth A., Wittemyer, George, Woinarski, John, Zinner, Dietmar, Upham, Nathan S., Jetz, Walter

“…Aim Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology,…”
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Biodiversity in the Mexican highlands and the interaction of geology, geography and climate within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt by Mastretta-Yanes, Alicia, Moreno-Letelier, Alejandra, Piñero, Daniel, Jorgensen, Tove H., Emerson, Brent C.

“…Aim: (1) To synthesize data on the physical and phylogeographical history of the Mexican highlands, with a focus on the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB), and…”
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