Presence‐only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences?

CB Yackulic, R Chandler, EF Zipkin… - Methods in Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, interest in species distribution modelling has increased following the development
of new methods for the analysis of presence‐only data and the deployment of these …

[HTML][HTML] Drought, deluge and declines: the impact of precipitation extremes on amphibians in a changing climate

SC Walls, WJ Barichivich, ME Brown - Biology, 2013 - mdpi.com
The Class Amphibia is one of the most severely impacted taxa in an on-going global
biodiversity crisis. Because amphibian reproduction is tightly associated with the presence …

Temperature variation makes ectotherms more sensitive to climate change

KP Paaijmans, RL Heinig, RA Seliga… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ectotherms are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate warming. Descriptions of
habitat temperatures and predicted changes in climate usually consider mean monthly …

Amphibian contributions to ecosystem services

DJ Hocking, KJ Babbitt - Herpetological conservation and biology, 2014 - scholars.unh.edu
Ecosystems provide essential services for human society, which include provisioning,
regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Amphibians provide provisioning services by …

Widespread rapid reductions in body size of adult salamanders in response to climate change

NM Caruso, MW Sears, DC Adams… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Reduction in body size is a major response to climate change, yet evidence in globally
imperiled amphibians is lacking. Shifts in average population body size could indicate either …

Plasticity reveals hidden resistance to extinction under climate change in the global hotspot of salamander diversity

EA Riddell, JP Odom, JD Damm, MW Sears - Science Advances, 2018 - science.org
Extinction rates are predicted to rise exponentially under climate warming, but many of these
predictions ignore physiological and behavioral plasticity that might buffer species from …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of climate change on habitat and connectivity for populations of a vulnerable, endemic salamander in Iran

MR Ashrafzadeh, AA Naghipour, M Haidarian… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the biggest threats to amphibian populations and
anthropogenic climate change may exacerbate these. The response of Iran's amphibians to …

The alarming state of freshwater biodiversity in Canada

JE Desforges, J Clarke, EJ Harmsen… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Little is known about the current state of freshwater biodiversity in Canada, one of the
countries with the greatest amount of surface waters in the world. To address this knowledge …

Do ecological niche models accurately identify climatic determinants of species ranges?

CA Searcy, HB Shaffer - The American Naturalist, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Defining species' niches is central to understanding their distributions and is thus
fundamental to basic ecology and climate change projections. Ecological niche models …

Cold-water habitats, climate refugia, and their utility for conserving salmonid fishes

DJ Isaak, MK Young - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Anthropogenic climate change is warming global temperatures, with significant implications
for salmonid fishes that depend on the availability of cold water during one or more life …