Land use/cover change (LUCC), as an important factor in global change, is a topic that has
recently received considerable attention in the prospective modeling domain. There are …

Indices quantifying the functional aspect of biodiversity are essential in understanding
relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental constraints …

A number of studies indicate that tropical arthropods should be particularly vulnerable to
climate warming. If these predictions are realized, climate warming may have a more …

Microorganisms drive much of the Earth's nitrogen (N) cycle, but we still lack a global
overview of the abundance and composition of the microorganisms carrying out soil N …

Understanding the causes of spatial variation in species richness is a major research focus
of biogeography and macroecology. Gridded environmental data and species richness …

In the last two decades, interest in species distribution models (SDMs) of plants and animals
has grown dramatically. Recent advances in SDMs allow us to potentially forecast …

Regression analysis is one of the most‐used statistical methods. Often part of the research
question is the identification of the most important regressors or an importance ranking of the …

Species distribution modelling is central to both fundamental and applied research in
biogeography. Despite widespread use of models, there are still important conceptual …

Aim Niche‐based species distribution models (SDMs) are commonly used to predict impacts
of global change on biodiversity, but the reliability of these predictions in space and time …

Species distribution models (SDM) are commonly used to obtain hypotheses on either the
realized or the potential distribution of species. The reliability and meaning of these …