[HTML][HTML] Neglected and underutilized fruit species in Sri Lanka: prioritisation and understanding the potential distribution under climate change

SS Ratnayake, L Kumar, CS Kariyawasam - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Neglected and underutilized fruit species (NUFS) can make an important contribution to the
economy, food security and nutrition requirement for Sri Lanka. Identifying suitable areas for …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing Sumatran Peat vulnerability to fire under various condition of ENSO phases using machine learning approaches

LB Prasetyo, Y Setiawan, AA Condro, K Kustiyo… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, catastrophic wildfire episodes within the Sumatran peatland have
contributed to a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions. The El-Nino Southern …

Pervasive impacts of climate change on the woodiness and ecological generalism of dry forest plant assemblages

MR Moura, FAO do Nascimento, LN Paolucci… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate emergency is a significant threat to biodiversity in the 21st century, but species will
not be equally affected. In summing up the responses of different species at the local scale …

Spatial priorities for agricultural development in the Brazilian Cerrado: may economy and conservation coexist?

L Lemes, AFA de Andrade, R Loyola - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
The ever-increasing requirement of land for food production causes habitat loss and
biodiversity decline. Human activities like agriculture are responsible for increases in global …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of three most charismatic mammalian species distribution across a multiple-use tropical forest landscape of Sumatra, Indonesia

DA Rahman, Y Santosa, I Purnamasari, AA Condro - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Charismatic Sumatran mammals (ie, the elephant, orangutan, and tiger)
play a pivotal role in maintaining ecosystem balance. Nevertheless, these species have …

[HTML][HTML] SDM profiling: A tool for assessing the information-content of sampled and unsampled locations for species distribution models

CJ Marsh, Y Gavish, M Kuemmerlen, S Stoll… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Species distribution models (SDMs) are key tools in biodiversity and conservation, but
assessing their reliability in unsampled locations is difficult, especially where there are …

Potential distribution of aquatic invasive alien plants, Eichhornia crassipes and Salvinia molesta under climate change in Sri Lanka

CS Kariyawasam, L Kumar, SS Ratnayake - Wetlands Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Eichhornia crassipes and Salvinia molesta are two of the world's worst aquatic invasive
alien plant Species (AIAPS) that have a major impact on the environment, agricultural …

Niche analyses and the potential distribution of four invasive bumblebees worldwide

TP López‐Aguilar, J Montalva, B Vilela… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of bees for agricultural production in distinct parts of the world and poor
management have led to invasion processes that affect biodiversity, significantly impacting …

Naturalization of introduced plants is driven by life‐form‐dependent cultivation biases

BC Dong, Q Yang, NL Kinlock… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Most naturalized plants are escapees from cultivation. Inventories of cultivated
introduced species thus offer unique, still underutilized, opportunities to assess …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing conservation measures through fine-tuned species distribution models for an Italian endangered endemic anuran

I Bernabo, M Biondi, V Cittadino, E Sperone… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate and land cover changes are the two most important stressors causing the decline of
amphibians' populations worldwide. Within the Mediterranean area, one of the global …