[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity hotspots: A shortcut for a more complicated concept

C Marchese - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
In an era of human activities, global environmental changes, habitat loss and species
extinction, conservation strategies are a crucial step toward minimizing biodiversity loss. For …

Incorporating climate change into spatial conservation prioritisation: A review

KR Jones, JEM Watson, HP Possingham… - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
To ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity, conservation strategies must account for
the entire range of climate change impacts. A variety of spatial prioritisation techniques have …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

SL Maxwell, RA Fuller, TM Brooks, JEM Watson - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
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Vertebrate biodiversity losses point to a sixth mass extinction

ML McCallum - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2015 - Springer
The human race faces many global to local challenges in the near future. Among these are
massive biodiversity losses. The 2012 IUCN/SSC Red List reported evaluations of~ 56% of …

Evaluating presence‐only species distribution models with discrimination accuracy is uninformative for many applications

DL Warren, NJ Matzke, TL Iglesias - Journal of Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution models are used across evolution, ecology, conservation and
epidemiology to make critical decisions and study biological phenomena, often in cases …

Heat resistance throughout ontogeny: body size constrains thermal tolerance

M Klockmann, F Günter, K Fischer - Global Change Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Heat tolerance is a trait of paramount ecological importance and may determine a species'
ability to cope with ongoing climate change. Although critical thermal limits have …

Predicting climate heating impacts on riverine fish species diversity in a biodiversity hotspot region

T Makki, H Mostafavi, AA Matkan, R Valavi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Co-occurring biodiversity and global heating crises are systemic threats to life on Earth as
we know it, especially in relatively rare freshwater ecosystems, such as in Iran. Future …

Predicting plant conservation priorities on a global scale

TA Pelletier, BC Carstens, DC Tank… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The conservation status of most plant species is currently unknown, despite the fundamental
role of plants in ecosystem health. To facilitate the costly process of conservation …

Climate and land-use change homogenise terrestrial biodiversity, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being

T Newbold, GL Adams… - Emerging Topics in …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Biodiversity continues to decline under the effect of multiple human pressures. We give a
brief overview of the main pressures on biodiversity, before focusing on the two that have a …