Mountains in western China, hosted rich biodiversity and millions of people and inhabitant
with vital ecosystem services, had experienced the most serious biodiversity loss with fragile …

In pursuit of a more robust provenance in the field of species distribution modelling, an
extensive literature search was undertaken to find the typical default values, and the range …

Untangling drivers of systems and uncertainty for species distribution models (SDMs) is
important to provide reliable predictions that are useful for conservation campaigns. This is …

Predicting climatic niche of species and projecting their potential range shifts in geographic
distribution under future climate scenarios is essential for assessing impacts of climate …

Global climate change can harm the food production globally by varying intensity and
frequency of rainfall, occurrence of extreme weather and increment in greenhouse gases …

Landslides are important geomorphic events that sculpt river basins by eroding hillslopes
and providing sediments to coastal areas. However, landslides are also hazardous events …

Changes in coastal habitats due to sea-level rise provide an uncertain, yet significant threat
to shoreline dependent birds. Rising sea levels can cause habitat fragmentation and loss …

The representation of a land cover type (ie habitat) within an area is often used as an
explanatory variable in species distribution models. However, it is possible that a simple …

Annually, millions of hectares of forest lands around the world are destroyed by fires. To
minimize the fire-caused losses, more studies on the risk prediction of forest fires need to be …

Management of natural resources in coastal ecosystems is a complex process that is made
more challenging by the need for stakeholders to confront the prospect of sea level rise and …