Diversity and Distributions

Article	Citations
Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions	158
Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research	150
Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook	98
Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes	91
High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity	83
Predictor complexity and feature selection affect Maxent model transferability: Evidence from global freshwater invasive species	75
GAPeDNA: Assessing and mapping global species gaps in genetic databases for eDNA metabarcoding	71
A blueprint for securing Brazil's marine biodiversity and supporting the achievement of global conservation goals	66
Large‐scale eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals marine biogeographic break and transitions over tropical north‐western Australia	65
Target‐group backgrounds prove effective at correcting sampling bias in Maxent models	64
High stream flows dilute environmental DNA (eDNA) concentrations and reduce detectability	64
Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions	53
Invasion success and impacts depend on different characteristics in non‐native plants	51
Lineage‐level distribution models lead to more realistic climate change predictions for a threatened crayfish	50
The elevational ascent and spread of exotic annual grass dominance in the Great Basin, USA	44
Faunal responses to fire in Australian tropical savannas: Insights from field experiments and their lessons for conservation management	40
Can habitat suitability estimated from MaxEnt predict colonizations and extinctions?	40
Vegetation structure derived from airborne laser scanning to assess species distribution and habitat suitability: The way forward	39
Responding to the biodiversity impacts of a megafire: A case study from south‐eastern Australia’s Black Summer	38
Local contributions to beta diversity in urban pond networks: Implications for biodiversity conservation and management	36
Integrating citizen‐science and planned‐survey data improves species distribution estimates	35
Identifying fine‐scale habitat preferences of threatened butterflies using airborne laser scanning	35
When bigger isn’t better—Implications of large high‐severity wildfire patches for avian diversity and community composition	34
Habitat alteration facilitates the dominance of invasive species through disrupting niche partitioning in floodplain wetlands	33
Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany	33

Niche shift of tephritid species after the Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) invasion in La Réunion	32
Assessing the conservation priority of freshwater lake sites based on taxonomic, functional and environmental uniqueness	31
Effects of land‐use change on avian taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in a tropical montane rainforest	31
Modelling species distributions and environmental suitability highlights risk of plant invasions in western United States	31
Evidence that post‐fire recovery of small mammals occurs primarily via in situ survival	31
Assessing mammal species richness and occupancy in a Northeast Asian temperate forest shared by cattle	31
Economic costs of invasive bivalves in freshwater ecosystems	30
Temporal variability is key to modelling the climatic niche	30
Implementation of species distribution models in Google Earth Engine	30
Counting the bodies: Estimating the numbers and spatial variation of Australian reptiles, birds and mammals killed by two invasive mesopredators	29
Tracking a killer shrimp: Dikerogammarus villosus invasion dynamics across Europe	29
DNA barcoding of Chironomidae from the Lake Skadar region: Reference library and a comparative analysis of the European fauna	28
Potential distributions of invasive vertebrates in the Iberian Peninsula under projected changes in climate extreme events	26
Diversity and patterns of marine non‐native species in the archipelagos of Macaronesia	26
Coasting along to a wider range: niche conservatism in the recent range expansion of the Tawny Coster, Acraea terpsicore (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)	25
Using species distribution models and decision tools to direct surveys and identify potential translocation sites for a critically endangered species	25
IUCNN – Deep learning approaches to approximate species' extinction risk	25
eDNA metabarcoding in lakes to quantify influences of landscape features and human activity on aquatic invasive species prevalence and fish community diversity	25
Network analysis of sea turtle movements and connectivity: A tool for conservation prioritization	24
Global change on the roof of the world: Vulnerability of Himalayan otter species to land use and climate alterations	24
Conservation status assessment of banana crop wild relatives using species distribution modelling	24
Predictive models of distribution and abundance of a threatened mountain species show that impacts of climate change overrule those of land use change	24
Trait‐based projections of climate change effects on global biome distributions	24
Predicting range shifts of African apes under global change scenarios	24
Evolving thermal thresholds explain the distribution of temperature sex reversal in an Australian dragon lizard	23
Vertebrate responses to human land use are influenced by their proximity to climatic tolerance limits	23
Cascading impacts of earthquakes and extreme heatwaves have destroyed populations of an iconic marine foundation species	23
Screening marker sensitivity: Optimizing eDNA‐based rare species detection	23
Integrated species distribution models: A comparison of approaches under different data quality scenarios	23
Climate change impact on cultivated and wild cacao in Peru and the search of climate change‐tolerant genotypes	22
On opportunities and threats to conserve the phylogenetic diversity of Neotropical palms	22
Alpine plants are on the move: Quantifying distribution shifts of Australian alpine plants through time	22
Rapid shifts in Arctic tundra species' distributions and inter‐specific range overlap under future climate change	22
Invasion disharmony in the global biogeography of native and non‐native beetle species	22
Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators	22
Can long‐lived species keep pace with climate change? Evidence of local persistence potential in a widespread conifer	22
A hotspot of groundwater amphipod diversity on a crossroad of evolutionary radiations	21
Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species	21
Diversity and conservation of traditional African vegetables: Priorities for action	20
A matter of time: Recovery of plant species diversity in wild plant communities at declining nitrogen deposition	20
Revealing the drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of nearshore fish assemblages: Implications for conservation priorities	20
Homogeneous selection shapes free‐living and particle‐associated bacterial communities in subtropical coastal waters	20
Modelling presence versus abundance for invasive species risk assessment	20
Modelling the biodiversity enhancement value of seagrass beds	20
Habitat suitability of neotenic net‐winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) in China using combined ecological models, with implications for biological conservation	20
Spatial patterns of genus‐level phylogenetic endemism in the tree flora of Mediterranean Europe	20
Climate change impacts on living marine resources in the Eastern Tropical Pacific	19
The first comprehensive DNA barcode reference library of Chinese Tanytarsus (Diptera: Chironomidae) for environmental DNA metabarcoding	19
A data‐driven geospatial workflow to map species distributions for conservation assessments	19
Partitioning beta diversity to untangle mechanisms underlying the assembly of bird communities in Mediterranean olive groves	19

Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a tool for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: reconstructing established fish communities of north‐temperate lakes and rivers	19
Insights for protection of high species richness areas for the conservation of Mesoamerican endemic birds	19
Land‐use intensification increases richness of native and exotic herbaceous plants, but not endemics, in Malagasy vanilla landscapes	19
Model‐based integration of citizen science data from disparate sources increases the precision of bird population trends	18
Delineating biogeographic regions in Indian Ocean deep‐sea vents and implications for conservation	18
No place to hide: Rare plant detection through remote sensing	18
A genus at risk: Predicted current and future distribution of all three Lagopus species reveal sensitivity to climate change and efficacy of protected areas	18
Forecasting habitat and connectivity for pronghorn across the Great Basin ecoregion	18
Modelling the distribution and intraguild associations of an understudied mesocarnivore across the contiguous United States	18
Elevational patterns of phylogenetic structure of angiosperms in a biodiversity hotspot in eastern Himalaya	17
Winners and losers in a changing climate: how will protected areas conserve red list species under climate change?	17
Mollusc aquaculture homogenizes intertidal soft‐sediment communities along the 18,400 km long coastline of China	17
The impacts of extreme climate change on mammals differ among functional groups at regional scale: The case of Iranian terrestrial mammals	17
Specific niche requirements underpin multidecadal range edge stability, but may introduce barriers for climate change adaptation	17
Widespread habitat for Europe's largest herbivores, but poor connectivity limits recolonization	17
Predicting range shifts of pikas (Mammalia, Ochotonidae) in China under scenarios incorporating land use change, climate change and dispersal limitations	17
Intermediate fire severity diversity promotes richness of forest carnivores in California	17
Predicting current and future global distribution of invasive Ligustrum lucidum W.T. Aiton: Assessing emerging risks to biodiversity hotspots	16
Better together? Assessing different remote sensing products for predicting habitat suitability of wetland birds	16
Static species distribution models in the marine realm: The case of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean	16
Consequences of migratory coupling of predators and prey when mediated by human actions	16
Spatial areas of genotype probability: Predicting the spatial distribution of adaptive genetic variants under future climatic conditions	16
Global impacts of projected climate changes on the extent and aboveground biomass of mangrove forests	16
Identifying important connectivity areas for the wide‐ranging Asian elephant across conservation landscapes of Northeast India	16
Ecological interactions mediate projected loss of kelp biomass under climate change	16
Identifying hotspots and priority areas for xenarthran research and conservation	16
Drought, fire and grazing precursors to large‐scale pine forest decline	16
Anthropogenic habitat loss accelerates the range expansion of a global invader	16
Migration‐based simulations for Canadian trees show limited tracking of suitable climate under climate change	15
Global patterns of extinction risk and conservation needs for Rodentia and Eulipotyphla	15
Understanding the local drivers of beta‐diversity patterns under climate change: The case of seaweed communities in Galicia, North West of the Iberian Peninsula	15
Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research	15
Species and spatial variation in the effects of sea ice on Arctic seabird populations	15
Abiotic and biotic drivers of functional diversity and functional composition of bird and bat assemblages along a tropical elevation gradient	15
Multiple satellite tracking datasets inform green turtle conservation at a regional scale	15
Hull fouling marine invasive species pose a very low, but plausible, risk of introduction to East Antarctica in climate change scenarios	15
Spatial overlap of wildfire and biodiversity in California highlights gap in non‐conifer fire research and management	15
Seasonal variation in community composition and distributional ranges of birds along a subtropical elevation gradient in China	15
When does agriculture enter into conflict with wildlife? A global assessment of parrot–agriculture conflicts and their conservation effects	15
Bridgehead effects distort global flows of alien species	15
Climate drives anuran breeding phenology in a continental perspective as revealed by citizen‐collected data	15
Are invasive species a phylogenetically clustered subset of naturalized species in regional floras? A case study for flowering plants in China	14
Life history strategies differentiate established from failed non‐native freshwater fish in peninsular Florida	14
Predicting plant species distributions using climate‐based model ensembles with corresponding measures of congruence and uncertainty	14
Genetic analyses reveal complex introduction histories for the invasive tree Acacia dealbata Link around the world	14
Broad‐scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine‐scale mechanisms of coexistence	14
Gaps in DNA sequence libraries for Macaronesian marine macroinvertebrates imply decades till completion and robust monitoring	14
Divergent climate impacts on C3 versus C4 grasses imply widespread 21st century shifts in grassland functional composition	14
Intra‐Alpine Islands: Population genomic inference reveals high degree of isolation between freshwater spring habitats	14
Protected areas have remarkable spillover effects on forest conservation on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	14
Finding what you don’t know: Testing SDM methods for poorly known species	14
National assessments of species vulnerability to climate change strongly depend on selected data sources	14
Northward shift of a biogeographical barrier on China’s coast	14
Latitudinal cline in the foraging dichotomy of loggerhead sea turtles reveals the importance of East China Sea for priority conservation	14
Recent advances in environmental DNA‐based biodiversity assessment and conservation	14
Habitat model forecasts suggest potential redistribution of marine predators in the southern Indian Ocean	13
Anthropogenic and environmental drivers shape diversity of naturalized plants across the Pacific	13
Comparative phylogeography in a marine biodiversity hotspot provides novel insights into evolutionary processes across the Atlantic‐Indian Ocean transition	13
The role of artificial light at night and road density in predicting the seasonal occurrence of nocturnally migrating birds	13
Predicting impacts of global climatic change on genetic and phylogeographical diversity of a Neotropical treefrog	13
Diminishing potential for tropical reefs to function as coral diversity strongholds under climate change conditions	13
Decomposing trends in bird populations: Climate, life histories and habitat affect different aspects of population change	13
Extrinsically reinforced hybrid speciation within Holarctic ermine (Mustelaspp.) produces an insular endemic	13
Fire and landscape context shape plant and butterfly diversity in a South African shrubland	13
Implications of macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution for freshwater assessments using functional traits: The Paute River Basin (Ecuador) case	13
Spatiotemporal patterns of emergence phenology reveal complex species‐specific responses to temperature in aquatic insects	13
Population decline at distribution margins: Assessing extinction risk in the last glacial relictual but still functional metapopulation of a European butterfly	13
Current and future plant invasions in protected areas: Does clonality matter?	13
Multiple β‐diversity patterns and the underlying mechanisms across amphibian communities along a subtropical elevational gradient	13
Spatial distribution of benthic algae in the South China Sea: Responses to gradually changing environmental factors and ecological impacts on coral communities	13
Anthropogenic pressures coincide with Neotropical biodiversity hotspots in a flagship butterfly group	13
Introduced alien, range extension or just visiting? Combining citizen science observations and expert knowledge to classify range dynamics of marine fishes	12
A step towards SDMs: A “couple‐and‐weigh” framework based on accessible data for biodiversity conservation and landscape planning	12
Glacial connectivity and current population fragmentation in sky islands explain the contemporary distribution of genomic variation in two narrow‐endemic montane grasshoppers from a biodiversity hotsp	12
Environmental DNA of preservative ethanol performed better than water samples in detecting macroinvertebrate diversity using metabarcoding	12
The demographic and ecological factors shaping diversification among rareAstragalusspecies	12
How functionally diverse are fish in the deep? A comparison of fish communities in deep and shallow‐water systems	12
Seasonal elevational patterns and the underlying mechanisms of avian diversity and community structure on the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga	12
Predicted changes in the functional structure of earthworm assemblages in France driven by climate change	12
Habitat use as indicator of adaptive capacity to climate change	12

Fire, drought and flooding rains: The effect of climatic extremes on bird species’ responses to time since fire	12
Megafires attract avian scavenging but carcasses still persist	12
Impact of introduction pathways on the spread and geographical distribution of alien species: Implications for preventive management in mediterranean ecosystems	12
Rapid niche shifts as drivers for the spread of a non‐indigenous species under novel environmental conditions	12
Predicting the nationwide outmigration timing of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts along 12 degrees of latitude in Norway	12
Design considerations for rapid biodiversity reconnaissance surveys and long‐term monitoring to assess the impact of wildfire	12
Predicting the influence of river network configuration, biological traits and habitat quality interactions on riverine fish invasions	11
Energy and physiological tolerance explain multi‐trophic soil diversity in temperate mountains	11
Mesophotic coral ecosystems of French Polynesia are hotspots of alpha and beta generic diversity for scleractinian assemblages	11
Re‐surveys reveal biotic homogenization of Orthoptera assemblages as a consequence of environmental change	11
Are species more harmful in their native, neonative or alien range? Insights from a global analysis of bark beetles	11
A biogeographical approach to characterizing the climatic, physical and geomorphic niche of the most widely distributed mangrove species,Avicennia marina	11
Sea freshening may drive the ecological impacts of emerging and existing invasive non‐native species	11
Inferring trends in pollinator distributions across the Neotropics from publicly available data remains challenging despite mobilization efforts	11
Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic	11
Predicting potential distributions of large carnivores in Kenya: An occupancy study to guide conservation	11
Global habitat loss of a highly migratory predator, the blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)	11
Occurrence–habitat mismatching and niche truncation when modelling distributions affected by anthropogenic range contractions	11
Recent warming causes functional borealization and diversity loss in deep fish communities east of Greenland	11
Ecological uniqueness of species assemblages and their determinants in forest communities	11
Sperm performance limits the reproduction of an invasive fish in novel salinities	11
Potential alien ranges of European plants will shrink in the future, but less so for already naturalized than for not yet naturalized species	11
Species distribution, hybridization and connectivity in the genusChionodraco: Unveiling unknown icefish diversity in antarctica	11
Rangewide habitat suitability analysis for the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) to identify recovery areas in its historical distribution	11
Habitat amount and ambient temperature dictate patterns of anuran diversity along a subtropical elevational gradient	11
Planning complementary conservation of crop wild relative diversity in southern Africa	11
Spatial resolution impacts projected plant responses to climate change on topographically complex islands	11
Vertical niche and elevation range size in tropical ants: Implications for climate resilience	11
Seasonal differences in the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in an overexploited shelf sea ecosystem	11
Mapping the ghost: Estimating probabilistic snow leopard distribution across Mongolia	10
Mapping habitat protection priority over a marine ecoregion under information gaps	10
Global flows of insect transport and establishment: The role of biogeography, trade and regulations	10
Rapid bird species recovery following high‐severity wildfire but in the absence of early successional specialists	10
Density dependence influences competition and hybridization at an invasion front	10
Frugivore distributions are associated with plant dispersal syndrome diversity in the Caribbean archipelagos	10
Dispersal ability, trophic position and body size mediate species turnover processes: Insights from a multi‐taxa and multi‐scale approach	10
Spatio‐temporal turnover and drivers of bentho‐demersal community and food web structure in a high‐latitude marine ecosystem	10
Golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) survival during winter at the northern invasion front implies a potential high‐latitude distribution	10
Elevational patterns of amphibian functional and phylogenetic structures in eastern Nepal Himalaya	10
Biogeography of Angolan rodents: The first glimpse based on phylogenetic evidence	10
Where have all the lions gone? Establishing realistic baselines to assess decline and recovery of African lions	10
Detecting the phylogenetic signal of glacial refugia in a bryodiversity hotspot outside the tropics	10
Hotspots of (sub)alpine plants in the Irano‐Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot are insufficiently protected	10
Distinct latitudinal community patterns of Arctic marine vertebrates along the East Greenlandic coast detected by environmental DNA	10
Phylogenomics of Northeast AsianPungitiussticklebacks	10
History, demography and genetic status of Balkan and Caucasian Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) populations revealed by genome‐wide variation	10
Biogeographical evaluation and conservation assessment of arboreal leafhoppers in the Mexican Transition Zone biodiversity hotspot	10
Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire	10
Ecological correlates of extinction risk in Chinese terrestrial mammals	10
Citizen science can complement professional invasive plant surveys and improve estimates of suitable habitat	10