The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview

X Mi, G Feng, Y Hu, J Zhang, L Chen… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation

RA Pyron, GC Costa, MA Patten… - Biological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic niche conservatism (PNC) typically refers to the tendency of closely related
species to be more similar to each other in terms of niche than they are to more distant …

The community ecology of invasive species: where are we and what's next?

L Gallien, M Carboni - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Alien species are continually introduced in most regions of the world, but not all survive and
coexist with the resident native species. Approaches analyzing the functional (or …

Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles

WL Allen, SE Street, I Capellini - Ecology letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Competing theoretical models make different predictions on which life history strategies
facilitate growth of small populations. While 'fast'strategies allow for rapid increase in …

Forecasting potential invaders to prevent future biological invasions worldwide

AN Pili, B Leroy, JG Measey, JE Farquhar… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ever‐increasing and expanding globalisation of trade and transport underpins the
escalating global problem of biological invasions. Developing biosecurity infrastructures is …

A global assessment of alien amphibian impacts in a formal framework

GJ Measey, G Vimercati, FA De Villiers… - Diversity and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The environmental and socio‐economic impacts of alien species need to be quantified
in a way that makes impacts comparable. This allows managers to prioritize their control or …

Do consensus models outperform individual models? Transferability evaluations of diverse modeling approaches for an invasive moth

GP Zhu, AT Peterson - Biological Invasions, 2017 - Springer
Transferability is key to many of the most novel and interesting applications of ecological
niche models, such that maximizing predictive power of model transfers is crucial. Here, we …

Risk of introduction and establishment of alien vertebrate species in transboundary neighboring areas

Q Zhang, Y Wang, X Liu - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Cross-border neighboring areas could be particularly vulnerable to biological invasions due
to short geographic distances and frequent interactions, although the invasion risk remains …

Risk of biological invasions is concentrated in biodiversity hotspots

X Li, X Liu, F Kraus, R Tingley… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the locations of potential invasion hotspots and the extent to which they
overlap with biodiversity hotspots is crucial for prioritizing efforts to reduce the impacts of …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating intraspecific variation into species distribution models improves climate change analyses of a widespread West African tree species …

S Biaou, GN Gouwakinnou, F Noulèkoun… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is predicted to affect species distribution worldwide. Most of the methods
used to evaluate such impact so far assume that species respond to the environmental …