Characteristics of Australia's alien flora vary with invasion stage
(no abstract available)
Well-intentioned initiatives hinder understanding biodiversity conservation: Cloaked iNaturalist information for threatened species
To protect threatened species, iNaturalist, one of the most important repositories of geographic information on species' geographic distributions, deliberately adds uncertainty to otherwise precise occurrence records of threatened species. This “clouded” or “cloaked” information is shared with other…
Potential Geographic Range of the Endangered Reed Parrotbill Paradoxornis heudei under Climate Change
The phenomenon of global climate change can impact the geographic range and biodiversity, thereby heightening the vulnerability of rare species to extinction. The reed parrotbill (Paradoxornis heudei David, 1872) is endemic to central and eastern China, it is mainly distributed in the middle and low…
Subtropical high-montane forest climate refuges in Brazil
Climate change represents one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity. We investigate how climate change will affect the future potential distribution of tree species in subtropical high montane habitats in the Atlantic Forest and identify potential climate refuges for these species. The most…
Octopuses in the south-west Pacific region: a review of fisheries, ecology, cultural importance and management
Octopuses present a difficult resource to manage because of their relatively short life spans, rapid growth rates, high natural mortality and seasonal fluctuations in abundance. With exploitation efforts increasing worldwide, particularly in the Pacific Island region, substantial knowledge gaps in t…
Tracing the future of epidemics: Coincident niche distribution of host animals and disease incidence revealed climate‐correlated risk shifts of main z…
Climate has critical roles on the origin, pathogenesis and transmission of infectious zoonotic diseases. However, large‐scale epidemiologic trend and specific response pattern of zoonotic diseases under future climate scenarios are poorly understood. Here, we projected the distribution shifts of tra…
N‐SDM : a high‐performance computing pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling
Predicting contemporary and future species distributions is relevant for science and decision making, yet the development of high‐resolution spatial predictions for numerous taxonomic groups and regions is limited by the scalability of available modelling tools. Uniting species distribution modellin…
ACD-containing chaperones reveal the divergent thermo-tolerance in penaeid shrimp
The α-crystallin domain-containing (ACD-containing) gene family, which includes typical small heat shock proteins (sHSPs), is the most ubiquitous and diverse family of putative chaperones in all organisms, including eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In the present study, approximately 54–117 ACD-containin…
Aquaculture Mapping in the Context of Climate Change
The development of aquaculture is facing unprecedented pressures from climate change, resource constraints, environmental pollution, energy consumption, and other factors. For coping with these challenges and for ensuring sustainable development of aquaculture, spatial planning in aquaculture activi…
Predictive modeling of ungulate–vehicle collision in the Republic of Korea
Abstract Context Studies of ungulate–vehicle collision (UVC) may suffer from inadequate or scattered datasets, due to difficulties in acquiring data over vast temporal and spatial scales. Predictive modeling on UVC using a reliable data is useful to reduce the collisions. Objectives This s…
The Preclassic military macaw ( Ara militaris ) from the Cueva de Avendaños (Chihuahua, Mexico) was not locally procured
The oldest macaw specimen in Pre‐Hispanic Mexico and the southwestern United States was recovered in Cueva de Avendaños, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the base of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It dates to the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period (1929–2057 cal BP). The head is the only preserved element of…
The expansion of agriculture has shaped the recent evolutionary history of a specialized squash pollinator
The expansion of agriculture is responsible for the mass conversion of biologically diverse natural environments into managed agroecosystems dominated by a handful of genetically homogeneous crop species. Agricultural ecosystems typically have very different abiotic and ecological conditions from th…
Of Bats and Empires: The Egyptian Rousette Bat and the Kingdom of Aksum
In this chapter, we examine the relevant ecology of the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB), which is the highly mobile and adaptable zoonotic reservoir host of the Marburg virus. We develop an ERB species behavioral profile that we use as the basis of guardrail ecological modeling to begin to build the fou…
Phylogeny and taxonomic status evaluation of Dark-sided Narrow-mouthed Frog, Microhyla heymonsi, (Anura: Microhylidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia
Microhyla heymonsi (Dark-sided narrow-mouthed frog) was once known to be widespread along the continent of Asia from Taiwan to the mainland of east and southeast to Nicobar Islands and Sumatra. Recent studies identified that this species is cryptic species consisting of M. heymonsi itself and severa…
Global Biodiversity Informatics Facility (GBIF): an exhaustive list of gbif record ids, dataset keys, and their associated Occurrence IDs, Institution…
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) indexes thousands of biodiversity datasets from Natural History Collections, citizen science initiatives (e.g., iNaturalist, eBird), and other sources. As part of the index process, GBIF associates at least two identifiers with indexed records: a r…
Implementation of biotic interactions in niche analyses unravels the patterns underneath community composition in clownfishes
Aim Biotic interactions are key to understanding the ecology of species and communities. As such, integrating biotic interactions into ecological niche modelling methods has been a central topic of research for the last decade. Yet, the role of biotic interactions remains overlooked. Mutualistic sys…
Genome‐wide SNPs reveal recurrent waves of speciation in niche‐pockets, in Europe's most venomous snake
Within the Balkan Peninsula, topographic and climatic agents have promoted biodiversity and shaped the speciation history of many ectotherms. Here, we targeted an iconic European reptile, the nose‐horned viper species‐complex (Vipera ammodytes), and explored its spatial and temporal evolution. We (1…
High temperature frequently increases facilitation between aquatic foundation species: a global meta‐analysis of interaction experiments between angio…
Many studies have quantified ecological impacts of individual foundation species (FS). However, emerging data suggest that FS often co‐occur, potentially inhibiting or facilitating one another, thereby causing indirect, cascading effects on surrounding communities. Furthermore, global warming is acc…
Spatiotemporal patterns of research on Southern Hemisphere amphidromous galaxiids: A semi–quantitative review
Amphidromy is a distinctive life‐history strategy of some fish species that involves spawning in fresh or brackish water followed by dispersal to sea by newly hatched larvae, where they develop for a short period. Individuals then return to freshwater as juveniles, where they feed and grow, before m…
European bee diversity: Taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns
Aim Wild bees still face striking shortfalls in knowledge of biodiversity in key regions of the world. This includes Europe, where despite a long tradition of data gathering, the continental scale distribution patterns of wild bees have not been systematically analysed to date. This study aims to ch…
GBIF falls short of providing a representative picture of the global distribution of insects
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is the largest databank on primary biodiversity data. We examined the completeness and geographical biases for all insect data on GBIF to determine its representativeness. Our results demonstrate that GBIF is far from providing a reliable represent…
Las aves del municipio de Gabriel Zamora
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The relationships of plant species occupancy to niches and traits vary with spatial scale
Aim Support for different underlying mechanisms of species occupancy is inconsistent, yet this could be related to spatial scale. Since abiotic filtering typically acts at broader scales than biotic interactions, we hypothesise that occupancy could be more driven by species' abiotic niche (i.e. tole…
A database of freshwater macroinvertebrate occurrence records across Cuba
In light of the ongoing freshwater biodiversity crisis, detailed knowledge regarding the spatial distribution of freshwater species is urgently required, especially in biodiversity hotspots. Here we present a database of georeferenced occurrence records of four freshwater invertebrate taxa groups ac…
Modeling Ganges river dolphin distribution and prioritizing areas for efficient conservation planning- a range-wide assessment
The Endangered Ganges river dolphin is a flagship species that inhabits the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems. Exposed to a multitude of environmental stresses and anthropogenic perturbations, the species has experienced severe population decline and shrinking of potential…