Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

Species distribution modeling (SDM: statistical and/or mechanistic approaches to the
assessment of range determinants and prediction of species occurrence) offers new …

Climate and topography are among the most fundamental drivers of plant diversity. Here, we
assessed the importance of climate and topography in explaining diversity patterns of …

Spatial environmental heterogeneity (EH) is an important driver of species diversity, and its
influence on species richness has been analysed for numerous taxa, in diverse ecological …

Habitat structure is important in explaining species diversity patterns for many animal
groups. If we could map habitat structure over large spatial scales, we could use habitat …

Environmental gradients (EG) related to climate, topography and vegetation are among the
most important drivers of broad scale patterns of species richness. However, these different …

Global climate changes during the Quaternary reveal much about broader evolutionary
effects of environmental change. Detailed regional studies reveal how evolutionary lineages …

Functionally, ectomycorrhizal (ECM) and saprotrophic (SAP) fungi belong to different guilds,
and they play contrasting roles in forest ecosystem C-cycling. SAP fungi acquire C by …

We identified hotspots of terrestrial vertebrate species diversity in Europe and adjacent
islands. Moreover, we assessed the extent to which by the end of the 21st century such …

Endemic species and species with small ranges are ecologically and evolutionarily distinct
and are vulnerable to extinction. Determining which abiotic and biotic factors structure …