A global assessment of research on urban ecology of reptiles: Patterns, gaps and future directions

PHR Brum, SRA Gonçalves, C Strüssmann… - Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global urban expansion has multiple impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Still, urban centres may play an important role in the conservation of reptiles, an …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping multigroup responses to land cover legacy for urban biodiversity conservation

F Guilherme, JR Vicente, MA Carretero… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban biodiversity plays a crucial role in the functioning of urban ecosystems and
significantly impacts the well-being and quality of life for city residents. By focusing on the …

Land use changes threaten bird taxonomic and functional diversity across the Mediterranean basin: a spatial analysis to prioritize monitoring for conservation

J Fusco, E Walker, J Papaïx, M Debolini… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Land use changes rank among the highest threats to biodiversity, but assessment of their
ecological impact is impaired by data paucity in vast regions of the world. For birds, land use …

[HTML][HTML] Are human-induced changes good or bad to dynamic landscape connectivity?

E Morin, NT Razafimbelo, JL Yengué, Y Guinard… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Land managers must find a compromise between rapidly changing landscapes and
biodiversity conservation through ecological networks. Estimating ecological networks is a …

Modelling functional response of reptiles to fire in two Mediterranean forest types

B Chergui, JM Pleguezuelos, S Fahd… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fire is one of the main disturbances to terrestrial environments, transforming habitat
structure and affecting community composition. Coupled with fire, forest type and vegetation …

Loss of pollinator specialization revealed by historical opportunistic data: Insights from network-based analysis

F Jacquemin, C Violle, F Munoz, G Mahy, P Rasmont… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We are currently facing a large decline in bee populations worldwide. Who are the winners
and losers? Generalist bee species, notably those able to shift their diet to new or alternative …

The effect of climate and human pressures on functional diversity and species richness patterns of amphibians, reptiles and mammals in Europe

MA Tsianou, M Lazarina, DE Michailidou… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ongoing biodiversity crisis reinforces the urgent need to unravel diversity patterns and
the underlying processes shaping them. Although taxonomic diversity has been extensively …

Projecting shifts in the distributions of Chinese endemic vertebrate species under climate and land-use change

Y Deng, E Goodale, A Dong, D Jiang… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human-induced climate and land-use change impact species' habitats and survival ability. A
growing body of research uses species distribution models (SDMs) to predict potential …

Jointly estimating spatial sampling effort and habitat suitability for multiple species from opportunistic presence‐only data

C Botella, A Joly, P Bonnet, F Munoz… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Building reliable species distribution models (SDMs) from presence‐only information
requires a good understanding of the spatial variation in the sampling effort. However, in …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution status and influence of climate change on patterns of distribution of hornbills in Sri Lanka

IL Wijerathne, DR Vidanapathirana… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
There is ample evidence for the impacts of recent climatic changes on ecology. Climate
plays a major role in the population dynamic of birds. Hornbills are confined to Asia and …