Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals

S Hoffmann - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard nature's diversity. In view of expanding
human land use, increasing climate change and unmet conservation targets, area-based …

Endemic plant species conservation: Biotechnological approaches

N Coelho, S Gonçalves, A Romano - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Endemic plant species are usually more vulnerable to anthropogenic threats and natural
changes and, therefore, hold a higher extinction risk. The preservation of these species is a …

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

BG Holt, JP Lessard, MK Borregaard, SA Fritz… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of B ig D ata: to what extent can we trust public databases?

C Maldonado, CI Molina, A Zizka… - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Massive digitalization of natural history collections is now leading to a steep
accumulation of publicly available species distribution data. However, taxonomic errors and …

The rise and fall of an alien: why the successful colonizer Littorina saxatilis failed to invade the Mediterranean Sea

L Bosso, S Smeraldo, D Russo, ML Chiusano… - Biological …, 2022 - Springer
Understanding what determines range expansion or extinction is crucial to predict the
success of biological invaders. We tackled this long-standing question from an unparalleled …

Roles of raptors in a changing world: from flagships to providers of key ecosystem services

JA Donázar, A Cortés-Avizanda, JA Fargallo… - Ardeola, 2016 - BioOne
Birds of prey have been, in comparison to other avian groups, an uncommon study model,
mainly due to the limitations imposed by their conservative life strategy (low population …

[图书][B] Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionary approach

CB Cox, PD Moore, RJ Ladle - 2016 - books.google.com
Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological
and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the …

On the species abundance distribution in applied ecology and biodiversity management

TJ Matthews, RJ Whittaker - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The species abundance distribution (SAD) is an important concept in ecology, and much
work has focused on the SAD in a theoretical context. However, less focus has been placed …

Deep diversification and long-term persistence in the South American 'dry diagonal': integrating continent-wide phylogeography and distribution modeling of geckos

FP Werneck, T Gamble, GR Colli, MT Rodrigues… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The relative influence of Neogene geomorphological events and Quaternary climatic
changes as causal mechanisms on Neotropical diversification remains largely speculative …

Conservation biogeography–foundations, concepts and challenges

DM Richardson, RJ Whittaker - Diversity and Distributions, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation biogeography involves the application of biogeographical principles, theories,
and analyses to problems regarding biodiversity conservation. The field was formally …