Understanding the relationship between the geographical distribution of taxa and their
environmental conditions is a key concept in ecology and conservation. The use of …

Yunnan, located in southwestern China, harbors more than 19,000 higher plants, which
represents the highest plant diversity in the country. However, plant diversity in Yunnan …

Extinction of species, and even clades, is a normal part of the macroevolutionary process.
However, several times in Earth history the rate of species and clade extinctions increased …

Background Predicting species' potential geographical range by species distribution models
(SDMs) is central to understand their ecological requirements. However, the effects of using …

The millions of plant specimens that have been collected and stored in Chinese herbaria
over the past~ 110 years have recently been digitized and geo-referenced. Here we use this …

摘要生态位模型是一个以生态位理论为基础的新兴研究领域. 它通过采集研究对象的已知分布点
及其相关的环境数据组成训练样本, 利用数理统计或机器学习理论分析数据 …

Many studies predict that climate change will cause species movement and turnover, but few
have considered the effect of climate change on range fragmentation for current species …

While many plant species are considered threatened under anthropogenic pressure, it
remains uncertain how rapidly we are losing plant species diversity. To fill this gap, we …

China has large areas of forest vegetation that are critical to biodiversity and carbon storage.
It is important to assess vulnerability of forest vegetation to anthropogenic climate change in …

Climate change is projected to impact on biodiversity conservation and the effectiveness of
the existing protected area network in biologically rich Yunnan Province of southwestern …