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A Short Guide to the Climatic Variables of the Last Glacial Maximum for Biogeographers

scientific article

A novel method combining species distribution models, remote sensing, and field surveys for detecting and mapping subtidal seagrass meadows

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialization and diversification in swallowtail butterflies

scientific article published on 23 July 2022

Adding Biotic Interactions into Paleodistribution Models: A Host-Cleptoparasite Complex of Neotropical Orchid Bees

scientific article

Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development

scientific article published on 27 February 2023

BioExtreme hackathon en el Museum für Naturkunde de Berlín, Alemania

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis provided an immediate demographic advantage to populations of the grass <i>Alloteropsis semialata</i>

scientific article published on 22 February 2024

Causal explanations for the evolution of ‘low gear’ locomotion in insular ruminants

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Ciencia reproducible: ¿qué, por qué, cómo?

Constraint envelope analyses of macroecological patterns reveal climatic effects on Pleistocene mammal extinctions

Differential effects of temperature change and human impact on European Late Quaternary mammalian extinctions

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Drought resistance across California ecosystems: evaluating changes in carbon dynamics using satellite imagery

scientific article published in 2016

Ecological niche modelling and coalescent simulations to explore the recent geographical range history of five widespread bumblebee species in Europe

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Effects of climate change and habitat loss on a forest-dependent bee species in a tropical fragmented landscape

Effects of temporal bias on the assessment of an ecological perturbation: a case study of the Prestige oil spill

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Environmental filters reduce the effects of sampling bias and improve predictions of ecological niche models

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Estudio, gestión, conservación y restauración de ecosistemas ante el cambio global: 1º Jornadas FORECO en la Universidad de Alcalá

Evaluating the impact of historical climate and early human groups in the Araucaria Forest of eastern South America

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Forecasting distributions of an aquatic invasive species (Nitellopsis obtusa) under future climate scenarios.

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Geographical distribution patterns ofCarcharocles megalodonover time reveal clues about extinction mechanisms

scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2016)

Historical Determinants of Mammal Diversity in Africa: Evolution of Mammalian Body Mass Distribution in Africa and South America During Neogene and Quarternary Times

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Invasion risk of the pond slider turtle is underestimated when niche expansion occurs

article by João F. M. Rodrigues et al published 12 April 2016 in Freshwater Biology

Is current climatic equilibrium a guarantee for the transferability of distribution model predictions? A case study of the spotted hyena

Macroevolution and climate changes: a global multi-family test supports the resource-use hypothesis in terrestrial mammals

scientific article published on 28 February 2022

Mammal traits and soil biogeochemistry: Functional diversity relates to composition of soil organic matter

scientific article published in 2023

Matches and mismatches between conservation investments and biodiversity values in the European Union.

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Mind the uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep‐time palaeobiological studies

scientific article published on 20 October 2023

Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

scientific article published in 2019

Paleoecology of the Serengeti during the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: The mammal and fish evidence.

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Potential suitable areas of giant ground sloths dropped before its extinction in South America: the evidences from bioclimatic envelope modeling

Refugia, colonization and diversification of an arid-adapted bird: coincident patterns between genetic data and ecological niche modelling

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SEMINARIOS EN LÍNEA SOBRE ANÁLISIS ESPACIALES CON ÉNFASIS EN MODELOS DE NICHO ECOLÓGICO

scientific article published in 2017

The Niche Limitation Method (NicheLim), a new algorithm for generating virtual species to study biogeography

scholarly article by Minyi Huang et al published January 2016 in Ecological Modelling

The Pliocene marine megafauna extinction and its impact on functional diversity

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

The impact of 850,000 years of climate changes on the structure and dynamics of mammal food webs

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The potential effects of climate change on amphibian distribution, range fragmentation and turnover in China

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Using species distribution models in paleobiogeography: A matter of data, predictors and concepts

scientific article published in 2011

Vrba was right: Historical climate fragmentation, and not current climate, explains mammal biogeography

scientific article published in May 2024

Were the Late Pleistocene climatic changes responsible for the disappearance of the European spotted hyena populations? Hindcasting a species geographic distribution across time

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[Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the breast: A rare entity]

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

paleobioDB: an R package for downloading, visualizing and processing data from the Paleobiology Database

scholarly article by Sara Varela et al published 2 December 2014 in Ecography

rAvis: an R-package for downloading information stored in Proyecto AVIS, a citizen science bird project

scientific article (publication date: 2014)