Research on global environmental change requires new data processing and analysis tools
that can integrate heterogeneous geospatial data from real-time in situ measurement …

Many tropical mountain ecosystems (TME) are severely disturbed, requiring ecological
restoration to recover biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, the extent of …

The deep ocean is the largest and least-explored ecosystem on Earth, and a uniquely
energy-poor environment. The distribution, drivers and origins of deep-sea biodiversity …

Ensuring that protected areas (PAs) maintain the biodiversity within their boundaries is
fundamental in achieving global conservation goals. Despite this objective, wildlife …

The Palaearctic B ombus ruderatus (in 1982/1983) and B ombus terrestris (1998) have both
been introduced into S outh A merica (C hile) for pollination purposes. We here report on the …

Caves are typified by their permanent darkness and a shortage of nutrients. Consequently,
bacteria play an important role in sustaining such subsurface ecosystems by dominating …

This document describes classes and methods designed to deal with different types of
spatio-temporal data in R implemented in the R package spacetime, and provides examples …

Key features: Unique in its combination of serving as an introduction to spatial statistics and
to modeling agricultural and ecological data using R Provides exercises in each chapter to …

Aim We aimed to assess the contribution of marginal habitats to the tree species richness of
the Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest) biodiversity hotspot. In addition, we aimed to determine …

A long‐standing hypothesis in biogeography is that a species' abundance is highest at the
centre of its geographical or environmental space and decreases toward the edges. Several …