The global decline of amphibian populations, driven by anthropogenic activities, is a
pressing conservation issue, with salamanders being of particular concern, as these species …

The aims of this study are to describe the ecological classification of land in Italy and to show
how the resulting land units can act as reliable frameworks for coarse scale environmental …

Global climate change is a major threat to biodiversity, posing increasing pressures on
species to adapt in situ or shift their ranges. A protected area network is one of the main …

A large fraction of the current environmental crisis derives from the large rates of human-
driven biodiversity loss. Biodiversity conservation questions human practices towards …

Rapid climate change represents one of the top threats to biodiversity, causing declines and
extinctions of many species. Range shifts are a key response, but in many cases are …

Aim Climate change is affecting the geographic distributions of many species and
researchers are increasingly relying on species distribution models (SDMs) to forecast …

The golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata, is one of the world's 100 most notorious
invasive alien species. Knowledge about the critical climate variables that limit the global …

The popularity of species distribution models (SDM s) and the associated stacked species
distribution models (S‐SDM s), as tools for community ecologists, largely increased in recent …

Evaluation of the effectiveness of protected areas networks for conserving diversity is a
demanding topic in biological conservation. In the last few years, there has been an …

Global climate is rapidly changing and while many studies have investigated the potential
impacts of this on the distribution of montane plant species and communities, few have …