SDMs are not new to conservation, but their popularity has increased dramatically in recent
years. This step-by-step review provides an overview of the efficacy of SDMs in guiding …

One of the major challenges in ecology is to predict how multiple global environmental
changes will affect future ecosystem patterns (eg plant community composition) and …

Characterizing the fire regime in regions prone to extreme wildfire behavior is essential for
providing comprehensive insights on potential ecosystem response to fire disturbance in the …

Biodiversity loss and habitat degradation are big challenges to be tackled by conservation
planning since their effects on both ecological and social-economic systems are remarkably …

The current challenge in a context of major environmental changes is to anticipate the
responses of species to future landscape and climate scenarios. In the Mediterranean basin …

Disturbances such as wildfires are an integral part of forest ecosystems, but climate change
is increasing their extent, frequency, intensity and severity, compromising forest ecosystem …

In many regions of Europe, large-scale socio-economic changes have led to the
abandonment of rural activities and a gradual takeover of natural vegetation. It is important …

Boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are currently listed as threatened in
Canada, with populations in the province of Alberta expected to decline as much as 50 …

We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-
prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to …

Many studies project future bird ranges by relying on correlative species distribution models.
Such models do not usually represent important processes explicitly related to climate …