Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

BT Trew, IMD Maclean - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

An evaluation of sampling effects on multiple DNA barcoding methods leads to an integrative approach for delimiting species: a case study of the North American …

CA Hamilton, BE Hendrixson, MS Brewer… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The North American tarantula genus Aphonopelma provides one of the greatest
challenges to species delimitation and downstream identification in spiders because …

Validating climate‐change refugia: empirical bottom‐up approaches to support management actions

CW Barrows, AR Ramirez, LC Sweet… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts to conserve biodiversity increasingly focus on identifying climate‐change refugia–
areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change over time that enable species …

Environmental heterogeneity and not vicariant biogeographic barriers generate community‐wide population structure in desert‐adapted snakes

EA Myers, AT Xue, M Gehara, CL Cox… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic structure can be influenced by local adaptation to environmental heterogeneity and
biogeographic barriers, resulting in discrete population clusters. Geographic distance …

Wind, sun, and wildlife: do wind and solar energy development 'short-circuit'conservation in the western United States?

M Agha, JE Lovich, JR Ennen… - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the trade-offs between renewable energy development, land use, humans, and
wildlife, wind and solar development continues to transform the western US into a green …

Patterns of cryptic diversity and phylogeography in four freshwater copepod crustaceans in European lakes

E Kochanova, A Nair, N Sukhikh, R Väinölä, A Husby - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Comparative phylogeography has become a powerful approach in exploring hidden or
cryptic diversity within widespread species and understanding how historical and …

Climate change effects on southern California deserts

D Bachelet, K Ferschweiler, T Sheehan… - Journal of Arid …, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change has already affected southern California where regional increases in
temperature and vegetation shifts have been observed. While all the CMIP5 temperature …

Testing multiple hypotheses for the high endemic plant diversity of the Tibetan Plateau

H Yu, DC Deane, X Sui, S Fang, C Chu… - Global ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Tibetan Plateau harbours the highest alpine and endemic plant diversity in
the world, attributed to rapid diversification during the plateau uplift and Quaternary climate …

Mapping the genetic patterns of plants in the region of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: Implications for conservation strategies

H Yu, A Favre, X Sui, Z Chen, W Qi… - Diversity and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species diversity in the region of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau has been extensively
explored, whereas the distribution of genetic diversity remains poorly understood in this …

Comparative phylogeography clarifies the complexity and problems of continental distribution that drove AR Wallace to favor islands

BR Riddle - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Deciphering the geographic context of diversification and distributional dynamics in
continental biotas has long been an interest of biogeographers, ecologists, and evolutionary …