Conservation science strives to inform management decisions. Applying niche models in
concert with future climate projections to project species vulnerability to extinction, range …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

Aim To synthesize the species distribution modelling (SDM) literature to inform which
variables have been used in MaxEnt models for different taxa and to quantify how frequently …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are excellent tools to understand the factors that affect
the potential distribution of several organisms at different scale. In this study, we analyzed …

Climate is one of the main factors driving species distributions and global biodiversity
patterns. Obtaining accurate predictions of species' range shifts in response to ongoing …

Climate warming is one of the most important threats to biodiversity. Ectothermic organisms
such as amphibians and reptiles are especially vulnerable as climatic conditions affect them …

In freshwater habitats, invasive species and the increase of cyanobacterial blooms have
been identified as a major cause of biodiversity loss. The invasive cyanobacteria …

Understanding species distribution plays an important role in conservation as well as
evolutionary biology. In this study, we applied a species distribution model to predict hotspot …

Global climate change poses a new challenge for species and can even push some species
toward an extinction vortex. The most affected organisms are those with narrow tolerance to …

Archaeolacerta bedriagae is a rock-dwelling lizard endemic to the Corso-Sardinian insular
system. We investigated the phylogeography of the species by using the mitochondrial ND4 …