The range of resources that a species uses (ie its niche breadth) might determine the
geographical area it can occupy, but consensus on whether a niche breadth–range size …

What stops populations expanding into new territory beyond the edge of a range margin?
Recent models addressing this problem have brought together population genetics and …

It is predicted that climate change will cause species extinctions and distributional shifts in
coming decades, but data to validate these predictions are relatively scarce. Here, we …

Climate change is a well-documented driver of both wildlife extinction and disease
emergence, but the negative impacts of climate change on parasite diversity are …

Climate envelope models (CEMs) have been used to predict the distribution of species
under current, past, and future climatic conditions by inferring a species' environmental …

Aim Many attempts to predict the potential range of species rely on environmental niche (or
'bioclimate envelope') modelling, yet the effects of using different niche‐based …

Robert May's seminal book has played a central role in the development of ecological
science. Originally published in 1976, this influential text has overseen the transition of …

Extinction from habitat loss is the signature conservation problem of the twenty-first century.
Despite its importance, estimating extinction rates is still highly uncertain because no proven …

Climate change presents unprecedented challenges for biological conservation. Agencies
are increasingly looking to modeled projections of species' distributions under future …

The demand for accurate forecasting of the effects of global warming on biodiversity is
growing, but current methods for forecasting have limitations. In this article, we compare and …