Gaps in digital accessible information (DAI) on species distributions hamper prospects of
safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services, and addressing central ecological and …

Governments have agreed to expand the global protected area network from 13% to 17% of
the world's land surface by 2020 (Aichi target 11) and to prevent the further loss of known …

Forecasts of species range shifts under climate change are fraught with uncertainties and
ensemble forecasting may provide a framework to deal with such uncertainties. Here, a …

Accurate mapping of species distributions is a fundamental goal of modern biogeography,
both for basic and applied purposes. This is commonly done by plotting known species …

Remotely sensed data can help to identify both suitable habitat for individual species, and
environmental conditions that foster species richness, which is important when predicting …

1. Despite the abundance, richness and ecological importance of insects, distribution
patterns remain unknown for most groups, and this creates serious difficulties for the …

We evaluated five non-mutually exclusive hypotheses driving the biogeographic regions of
anuran species in the Amazonia. We overlaid extent-of-occurrence maps for anurans 50× 50 …

Aim To determine whether the method used to build distributional maps from raw data
influences the representation of two principal macroecological patterns: the latitudinal …

Biogeography is spatial by nature. Over the past 20 years, the literature related to the
analysis of spatially structured data has exploded, much of it focused on a perceived …

Bats are the second-most species-rich mammal group numbering more than 1270 species
globally. Our knowledge of their geographic distributions and diversity patterns however is …