This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

Aim Theoretical work suggests that species’ ecological niches should remain relatively
constant over long‐term ecological time periods, but empirical tests are few. We present …

Climate surfaces are digital representations of climatic variables from a region in the planet
estimated via geographical interpolation techniques. Climate surfaces have multiple …

Aim Many attempts to predict the potential range of species rely on environmental niche (or ‘bioclimate
envelope’) modelling, yet the effects of using different niche‐based …

Biodiversity studies rely heavily on estimates of species' distributions often obtained through
ecological niche modelling. Numerous software packages exist that allow users to model …

Range shifts due to climate change may cause species to move out of protected areas.
Climate change could therefore result in species range dynamics that reduce the relevance of …

Numerous human diseases—malaria, dengue, yellow fever and leishmaniasis, to name a
few—are transmitted by insect vectors with brief life cycles and biting activity that varies in both …

Despite the importance of tropical biodiversity 1 , informative species distributional data are
seldom available for biogeographical study or setting conservation priorities 2 , 3 . Modelling …

Spatial abundance patterns across species' ranges have attracted intense attention in
macroecology and biogeography. One key hypothesis has been that abundance declines with …

GIS-based modeling of a species’ environmental requirements using known occurrence
records can provide estimates of its distribution for conservation assessments when other data …