Plant diversity patterns and conservation implications under climate-change scenarios in the Mediterranean: The case of Crete (Aegean, Greece)

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, P Trigas… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Climate change poses a great challenge for biodiversity conservation. Several studies exist
regarding climate change's impacts on European plants, yet none has investigated how …

Cross-scale monitoring of habitat suitability changes using satellite time series and ecological niche models

S Arenas-Castro, N Sillero - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the biggest challenges to deal with the global crisis of biodiversity loss is the lack of
efficient and viable monitoring systems across scales. Unlike traditional in situ biodiversity …

Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats

S Smeraldo, M Di Febbraro, L Bosso, C Flaquer… - Biodiversity and …, 2018 - Springer
Phenology is a key feature in the description of species niches to capture seasonality in
resource use and climate requirements. Species distribution models (SDMs) are widespread …

An invasive pathogen drives directional niche contractions in amphibians

BC Scheele, GW Heard, M Cardillo… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Global change is causing an unprecedented restructuring of ecosystems, with the spread of
invasive species being a key driver. While population declines of native species due to …

Temporal variability is key to modelling the climatic niche

MA Perez‐Navarro, O Broennimann… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Niche‐based species distribution models (SDMs) have become a ubiquitous tool in
ecology and biogeography. These models relate species occurrences with the …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change effects on multi-taxa pollinator diversity and distribution along the elevation gradient of Mount Olympus, Greece

K Minachilis, K Kougioumoutzis, T Petanidou - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is predicted to dramatically affect mountain biodiversity and especially
mountain pollination systems due to the mutual dependence between plants and pollinators …

Potential range expansion and niche shift of the invasive Hyphantria cunea between native and invasive countries

X Tang, Y Yuan, X Liu, J Zhang - Ecological Entomology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Hyphantria cunea is a problematic invasive species that has caused considerable
damage to agricultural and forestry ecosystems in China. 2. We compared 19 bioclimate …

Environmental filtering improves ecological niche models across multiple scales

AA Castellanos, JW Huntley, G Voelker… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A clear challenge for ecological niche modelling is determining how to best mitigate the
effects of sampling bias from commonly collected biodiversity data. Recent approaches have …

The fate of páramo plant assemblages in the sky islands of the northern Andes

G Peyre, J Lenoir, DN Karger, M Gomez… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Assessing climate change impacts on biodiversity is a main scientific challenge,
especially in the tropics. We predicted the future of plant species and communities on the …

A data‐driven geospatial workflow to map species distributions for conservation assessments

RD Palacio, PJ Negret… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution maps are essential for assessing extinction risk and guiding
conservation efforts. However, most come sourced as expert‐drawn range maps with known …