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A 40-year, continent-wide, multispecies assessment of relevant climate predictors for species distribution modelling

article

A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions

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A general scaling law reveals why the largest animals are not the fastest.

scientific article

A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

scientific article published in 2014

A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

scientific article

A global inventory of mountains for bio-geographical applications

A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

A global, remote sensing-based characterization of terrestrial habitat heterogeneity for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

scientific article published in 2015

A hierarchical inventory of the world's mountains for global comparative mountain science

publication published on 01 April 2022

A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

scientific article published in 2023

A near half-century of temporal change in different facets of avian diversity

scientific article

A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios

scientific article published in 2018

A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions

article

Accumulation over evolutionary time as a major cause of biodiversity hotspots in conifers

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

scientific article

An Assessment of Methods and Remote-Sensing Derived Covariates for Regional Predictions of 1 km Daily Maximum Air Temperature

article by Benoit Parmentier et al published 16 September 2014 in Remote Sensing

Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges

scientific article published on 07 April 2022

Animal-borne sensors as a biologically informed lens on a changing climate

scientific article published on 18 September 2023

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

scientific article

Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Artificial Intelligence's Role in Global Camera Trap Data Management and Analytics via Wildlife Insights

scientific article published in 2019

Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

scientific article published in 2023

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Avian distributions under climate change: towards improved projections

scientific article

BILBI: Supporting global biodiversity assessment through high-resolution macroecological modelling

scientific article published on 26 July 2020

Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Bioclimatic and physical characterization of the world's islands

scientific article

Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

Biodiversity of African birds

doctoral thesis by W. Jetz

Biogeography of body size in Pacific island birds

scholarly article by Alison G Boyer & Walter Jetz published May 2010 in Ecography

Biological Earth observation with animal sensors

scientific article published in 2022

Biotic and abiotic controls of Argentine ant invasion success at local and landscape scales.

scientific article

Bird dietary guild richness across latitudes, environments and biogeographic regions

scholarly article by Daniel Kissling et al published 27 May 2011 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments

scientific article published in 2012

COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change

scientific article published on 29 May 2023

Characterizing and predicting species distributions across environments and scales: Argentine ant occurrences in the eye of the beholder

article

Colloquium paper: homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts?

scientific article

Comment on "An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world".

scientific article

Comparative Methods as a Statistical Fix: The Dangers of Ignoring an Evolutionary Model ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Conservation Biology

scientific article 2012-03-27

Conservation biogeography of the US-Mexico border: a transcontinental risk assessment of barriers to animal dispersal

scholarly article by Jesse R Lasky et al published 3 May 2011 in Diversity and Distributions

Conservation macrogenetics: harnessing genetic data to meet conservation commitments

scientific article published in November 2023

Continental‐scale 1 km hummingbird diversity derived from fusing point records with lateral and elevational expert information

scientific article published on 06 February 2021

Contrasting environmental and regional effects on global pteridophyte and seed plant diversity

article

Corrigendum: Mapping tree density at a global scale.

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species

scientific article published on 9 July 2022

Country‐level checklists and occurrences for the world's Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)

scientific article published in 2022

Cross-scale variation in species richness-environment associations

scientific article published in 2010

Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen‐science resource for monitoring avian diversity

scientific article published on 3 June 2024

Detecting the Multiple Facets of Biodiversity

scientific article

Detecting the Multiple Facets of Biodiversity: (Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31, 527-538, July 2016).

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Dietary guild composition and disaggregation of avian assemblages under climate change

scientific article

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Disentangling scale dependencies in species environmental niches and distributions

scientific article published on 06 December 2017

Disparities between observed and predicted impacts of climate change on winter bird assemblages

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale

scientific article published in 2023

Downscaling the environmental associations and spatial patterns of species richness

scientific article

ECOLOGY. Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

scientific article published on June 2015

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Ecological causes of uneven diversification and richness in the mammal tree of life: Supplementary Information

Ecological correlates and conservation implications of overestimating species geographic ranges.

scientific article published in February 2008

Ecology. Essential biodiversity variables

scientific article

Effects of light and prey availability on nocturnal, lunar and seasonal activity of tropical nightjars

scientific article published on 21 October 2003

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

scientific article published in 2014

Energetic Constraints on Species Coexistence in Birds

scientific article

Energetic determinants of abundance in winter landbird communities

scientific article published on 04 June 2004

Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds

scientific article

Environment, migratory tendency, phylogeny and basal metabolic rate in birds

scientific article

Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

scholarly article by Walter Jetz & Dustin R. Rubenstein published March 2011 in Current Biology

Environmental and historical constraints on global patterns of amphibian richness

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2007)

Environmental constraints on the compositional and phylogenetic beta-diversity of tropical forest snake assemblages.

scientific article

Environmental uncertainty and the global biogeography of cooperative breeding in birds

scientific article

Environment‐ and trait‐mediated scaling of tree occupancy in forests worldwide

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Evolutionarily distinct amphibians are disproportionately lost from human-modified ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

Extinctions and the loss of ecological function in island bird communities

article published in 2014

Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

scholarly article by João Filipe Riva Tonini et al published December 2016 in Biological Conservation

Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change

scientific article published in June 2008

Geographic range size and determinants of avian species richness

scientific article published on August 2002

Geometric constraints explain much of the species richness pattern in African birds

scientific article (publication date: 8 May 2001)

Getting the GIST: Testing an integrative data structure for linking taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation

scientific article published in 2022

Global and national trends, gaps, and opportunities in documenting and monitoring species distributions

scientific article published on 12 August 2021

Global associations between terrestrial producer and vertebrate consumer diversity

scientific article published in January 2009

Global daily 1 km land surface precipitation based on cloud cover-informed downscaling

article by Dirk N. Karger et al published 26 November 2021 in Scientific Data

Global distribution and conservation of evolutionary distinctness in birds

scientific article

Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective

scientific article

Global elevational diversity and diversification of birds

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Global functional and phylogenetic structure of avian assemblages across elevation and latitude

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database

scientific article

Global gradients in vertebrate diversity predicted by historical area-productivity dynamics and contemporary environment

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

article by Ryan P. Powers & Walter Jetz published 4 March 2019 in Nature Climate Change

Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity

scientific article

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

scientific article

Global patterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages

Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions

scientific article

Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Global shortfalls in documented actions to conserve biodiversity

scientific article published on 5 June 2024

Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050

scientific article published on 25 April 2024

Hierarchical multi-grain models improve descriptions of species' environmental associations, distribution, and abundance

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Historical Biogeography Using Species Geographical Ranges

scientific article

Humboldt Core - toward a standardized capture of biological inventories for biodiversity monitoring, modeling and assessment

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets

scientific article

Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms

scientific article published on 27 July 2021

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

scientific article published in 2019

Insularity and the determinants of lizard population density

scientific article published in June 2007

Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

scientific article

Integrating occurrence data and expert maps for improved species range predictions

article

Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets

scientific article published in 2023

Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

scientific article published in 2023

Large conservation gains possible for global biodiversity facets

scientific article

Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Linking global turnover of species and environments

scientific article

Lizard community structure along environmental gradients

scientific article published on 28 August 2009

Local and global approaches to spatial data analysis in ecology

scientific article published in 2005

Macroecology meets IPBES

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Macroecology meets IPBES

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Macroevolutionary dynamics of climatic niche space

scientific article published in 2022

Mapping the biodiversity of tropical insects: species richness and inventory completeness of African sphingid moths

article by Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia et al published 22 January 2013 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Mapping tree density at a global scale

scientific article

Measure and Reduce the Harm Caused by Biological Invasions

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review

article

Model-based integration of observed and expert-based information for assessing the geographic and environmental distribution of freshwater species

article

Molecules and fossils tell distinct yet complementary stories of mammal diversification

scientific article

Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

article by Laetitia M. Navarro et al published December 2017 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

scientific article

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

scientific article

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

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More than "more individuals": the nonequivalence of area and energy in the scaling of species richness

scientific article

Multiscale scenarios for nature futures

scientific article published in 2017

Near-global freshwater-specific environmental variables for biodiversity analyses in 1 km resolution

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Non-warning odors trigger innate color aversions--as long as they are novel

scientific article published in 2001

On the decline of biodiversity due to area loss

scientific article

PASTIS: an R package to facilitate phylogenetic assembly with soft taxonomic inferences

scientific article published in 2013

Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace’s Line

scientific article published on 06 July 2023

Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology.

scientific article published in September 2009

Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate.

scientific article published in April 2006

Phenotypic population divergence in terrestrial vertebrates at macro scales

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs)

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Phylogenetic comparative approaches for studying niche conservatism.

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2011)

Phylogenetic endemism in terrestrial mammals

scholarly article by Dan F. Rosauer & Walter Jetz published 30 September 2014 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Phylogenetically informed spatial planning is required to conserve the mammalian tree of life

scientific article published in October 2017

Policy-relevant indicators for invasive alien species assessment and reporting

scientific article published on 30 August 2021

Positional errors in species distribution modelling are not overcome by the coarser grains of analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of birds

scientific article

Projected impacts of climate change on regional capacities for global plant species richness

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2010)

Projected range contractions of montane biodiversity under global warming

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Quantifying the evidence for co-benefits between species conservation and climate change mitigation in giant panda habitats

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information

article

Range-wide latitudinal and elevational temperature gradients for the world's terrestrial birds: implications under global climate change

scientific article

Regional pools and environmental controls of vertebrate richness

scientific article

Relative roles of ecological and energetic constraints, diversification rates and region history on global species richness gradients

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Remotely Sensed High-Resolution Global Cloud Dynamics for Predicting Ecosystem and Biodiversity Distributions

scientific article

SAviTraits 1.0: Seasonally varying dietary attributes for birds

scientific article published on 28 July 2023

Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Scale-sensitivity in the measurement and interpretation of environmental niches

scientific article published in 2023

Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

scientific article published on 22 March 2021

Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Space versus phylogeny: disentangling phylogenetic and spatial signals in comparative data.

scientific article published in January 2009

Spatial scaling of functional structure in bird and mammal assemblages

scientific article

Species distribution models affected by positional uncertainty in species occurrences can still be ecologically interpretable

scientific article published on 27 April 2023

Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation

scientific article

Species' range model metadata standards: RMMS

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Systematic land cover bias in Collection 5 MODIS cloud mask and derived products — A global overview

article

Targeted, collaborative biodiversity conservation in the global ocean can benefit fisheries economies

preprint

Taxonomic and functional diversity change is scale dependent.

scientific article

Temperature-Dependent Evolutionary Speed Shapes the Evolution of Biodiversity Patterns Across Tetrapod Radiations

scientific article published in 2022

The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action

scientific article published in 2023

The Scaling of Animal Space Use

scientific article

The broad-scale ecology of energy expenditure of endotherms

scientific article published in 2005

The build-up of the present-day tropical diversity of tetrapods

scientific article published on 9 May 2023

The coincidence of rarity and richness and the potential signature of history in centres of endemism

scientific article published in 2004

The effect of range changes on the functional turnover, structure and diversity of bird assemblages under future climate scenarios

scientific article

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

scientific article published on 10 March 2023

The global distribution of frugivory in birds

scientific article published in 2009

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The global diversity of birds in space and time

scientific article (publication date: 15 November 2012)

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The limits of direct community modeling approaches for broad-scale predictions of ecological assemblage structure

scientific article published in 2016

The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds

article

The potential of ecoregional range maps for boosting taxonomic coverage in ecology and conservation

scientific article published on 3 October 2023

The worldwide variation in avian clutch size across species and space

scientific article

Thermal and energetic constraints on ectotherm abundance: a global test using lizards

scientific article published in January 2008

Toward a set of essential biodiversity variables for assessing change in mountains globally

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

scientific article published in 2021

Towards a general framework for predicting threat status of data-deficient species from phylogenetic, spatial and environmental information

scientific article

Tracking of climatic niche boundaries under recent climate change

scientific article

Type and spatial structure of distribution data and the perceived determinants of geographical gradients in ecology: the species richness of African birds

scientific article published in 2007

Uncertainty, priors, autocorrelation and disparate data in downscaling of species distributions

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Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales

scientific article

Unravelling the structure of species extinction risk for predictive conservation science

scientific article published on 13 October 2010

Using multi-timescale methods and satellite-derived land surface temperature for the interpolation of daily maximum air temperature in Oregon

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Vulnerability of terrestrial island vertebrates to projected sea-level rise

scientific article

Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet ⬇️

scholarly article

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