Species environmental niches are central to ecology, evolution, and global change
research, but their characterization and interpretation depend on the spatial scale …

Individual decisions regarding how, why and when organisms interact with one another and
with their environment scale up to shape patterns and processes in communities. Recent …

The performance of species distribution models (SDMs) is known to be affected by analysis
grain and positional error of species occurrences. Coarsening of the analysis grain has …

Background Laser scanning technology has opened new horizons for the research of forest
dynamics, because it provides a largely automated and non-destructive method to rapidly …

There is a lack of guidance on the choice of the spatial grain of predictor and response
variables in species distribution models (SDM). This review summarizes the current state of …

Energy, nutrients and organisms move over landscapes, connecting ecosystems across
space and time. Meta‐ecosystem theory investigates the emerging properties of local …

The representation of a land cover type (ie habitat) within an area is often used as an
explanatory variable in species distribution models. However, it is possible that a simple …

Species distribution and ecological niche models (SDMs and ENMs) are popular tools used
in a wide variety of research and conservation applications. However, their use in …

Context Addressing ecosystem degradation in the Anthropocene will require ecological
restoration across large spatial extents. Identifying areas where natural regeneration will …

Species' geographical distributions and abundances are a central focus of current
ecological research. Although multiple studies have been conducted on their elucidation …