Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change

JA Lawlor, L Comte, G Grenouillet, J Lenoir… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Shifts in species distributions are a common ecological response to climate change, and
global temperature rise is often hypothesized as the primary driver. However, the directions …

The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)

CJ Brandon, WD Pearse, JP Herrera - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding why some species are more susceptible to extinction than others is critical for
implementing effective conservation strategies. Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) …

Inferring current and Last Glacial Maximum distributions are improved by physiology‐relevant climatic variables in cold‐adapted ectotherms

M Guillon, F Martínez‐Freiría, N Lucchini… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Ecological niche‐based models (ENM) frequently rely on bioclimatic variables (BioV) to
reconstruct biogeographic scenarios for species evolution, ignoring mechanistic relations …

Local climate change velocities and evolutionary history explain multidirectional range shifts in a North American butterfly assemblage

CRB da Silva, SE Diamond - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species are often expected to shift their distributions either poleward or upslope to evade
warming climates and colonise new suitable climatic niches. However, from 18‐years of …

Investigating odonates' response to climate change in Great Britain: A tale of two strategies

D O'Neill, L Shaffrey, J Neumann… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species are largely thought to maintain broadly static niches over time, an assumption
underpinning much theoretical ecology including the implementation of ecological models to …

[HTML][HTML] Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?

ME Loik - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Mountains present challenging habitats for biological conservation assessment and
intervention. Atmospheric warming is pressuring populations, communities and ecosystems …

Moths are less attracted to light traps than they used to be

I Battles, E Burkness, MS Crossley, CB Edwards… - Journal of Insect …, 2024 - Springer
As evidence of global insect declines continues to mount, insect conservationists are
becoming increasingly interested in modeling the demographic history of at-risk species …

[HTML][HTML] The genome sequence of Ashworth's Rustic, Xestia ashworthii (Doubleday, 1855)

JF Mulley, DC Lees… - Wellcome Open …, 2023 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Xestia ashworthii (Ashworth's
Rustic; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae). The genome sequence is 726.3 …

Local climate change velocities explain multidirectional range shifts in a North American butterfly assemblage

CRB da Silva, SE Diamond - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Species are often expected to shift their distributions poleward to evade warming climates.
However, from 18 years of fixed transect monitoring data on 88 species of butterfly in the …

Modelling range expansion in heterogeneous environments

D Scott - 2024 - livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
As climates warm, species have been observed to shift their range either in latitude or
elevation to maintain their thermal conditions (climate tracking). Those that fail to track their …