The 19 BIOCLIM variables available from the WorldClim databases have become the most
widely used set of climatic variables for creating species distribution models (SDMs) and …

Background Estimates of the geographical distribution of Culex mosquitoes in the Americas
have been limited to state and provincial levels in the United States and Canada and based …

Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) pose a major threat to human and animal health, with more
than 80% of the global population being at risk of acquiring at least one major VBD. Being …

The performance of species distribution models (SDMs) is known to be affected by analysis
grain and positional error of species occurrences. Coarsening of the analysis grain has …

The Asian giant hornet (AGH, Vespa mandarinia) is the world's largest hornet, occurring
naturally in the Indomalayan region, where it is a voracious predator of pollinating insects …

Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) is a species with great economic interest
worldwide and is classified as vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. Deforestation and …

Plants and pollinators might respond differently to changes in climate, and thus plant-
pollinator relationships are vulnerable to spatial, temporal, morphological and recognition …

Climate change may modify environmental conditions creating suitable environments for
phytopathogen vectors in places that were not suitable before. The present study aimed to …

Ecological niche modelling is useful in estimating the environmental requirements of
species and, by extension, can also estimate their distributional areas. For most cacti …

Climate change is currently considered one of the main phenomena affecting marine
species through expansion or contraction of their distribution. Being ectothermic organisms …