BACKGROUND As global climate change accelerates, one of the most urgent tasks for the
coming decades is to develop accurate predictions about biological responses to guide the …

Humans fundamentally affect dispersal, directly by transporting individuals and indirectly by
altering landscapes and natural vectors. This human-mediated dispersal (HMD) modifies …

Although it is widely accepted that future climatic change—if unabated—is likely to have
major impacts on biodiversity,, few studies have attempted to quantify the number of species …

Urbanisation exposes wildlife to new challenging conditions and environmental pressures.
Some mammalian species have adapted to these novel environments, but it remains …

Species across the planet are shifting their ranges to track suitable climate conditions in
response to climate change. Given that protected areas have higher quality habitat and often …

Species differ in their biological susceptibility to extinction, but the set of traits determining
susceptibility varies across taxa. It is yet unclear which patterns are common to all taxa, and …

Understanding changes in species distributions is essential to disentangle the mechanisms
that drive their responses to anthropogenic habitat modification. Here we analyse the past …

Trait-based approaches are an alternative to species-based approaches for functionally
linking individual organisms with community structure and dynamics. In the trait-based …

Process‐based models are becoming increasingly used tools for understanding how
species are likely to respond to environmental changes and to potential management …

In an era of global change, the process of biotic homogenisation by which regional biotas
become more similar through time has attracted considerable attention from ecologists …