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Potential sources of time lags in calibrating species distribution models
Essl, Franz; García‐Rodríguez, Adrián; Lenzner, Bernd; Alexander, Jake M.; Capinha, César; Gaüzère, Pierre; Guisan, Antoine; Kühn, IngolfThe Anthropocene is characterized by a rapid pace of environmental change and is causing a multitude of biotic responses, including those that affect the spatial distribution of species. Lagged responses are frequent and species distributions and assemblages are consequently pushed into a disequilibrium state. How the characteristics of environmental change—for example, gradual ‘press’ disturbances such as risi...
Alien plant species: environmental risks in agricultural and agro-forest landsc...
Vicente, Joana R.; Vaz, Ana Sofia; Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Buchadas, Ana R.; Guisan, Antoine; Kueffer, Christoph; Marchante, Elizabete; Marchante, HéliaAlien plant species have been essential for farming and agro-forestry systems and for their supply of food, fiber, tannins, resins or wood from antiquity to the present. They also contributed to supporting functions and regulating services (water, soil, biodiversity) and to the design of landscapes with high cultural and scenic value. Some of those species were intentionally introduced, others arrived accidenta...
Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
Araújo, Miguel B.; Anderson, Robert P.; Barbosa, A. M.; Beale, Colin M.; Dormann, Carsten F.; Early, Regan; Garcia, Raquel A.; Guisan, AntoineDemand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate for the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling scoring of studies based on species distribution models for use in biodiversity assessments. We reviewed and scored 400 modeling studies over the past 20 years using the proposed standards and guidelines. We detected low model adequacy ...
¿Existe un sesgo en la participación y visibilidad de las mujeres en ecología? ...
DeSoto, L.; Torices, Rubén; Broennimann, Olivier; Guisan, Antoine; Rodríguez-Echeverría, SusanaLas mujeres continúan estando menos representadas que los hombres en ciencia y tecnología, existiendo un sesgo en los diferentes procesos de evaluación desde la admisión de comunicaciones orales en los congresos al acceso a los puestos más cualificados. En este estudio, comparamos la participación y visibilidad de las mujeres ecólogas en el IV Congreso Ibérico de Ecología (CIE4) con la Conferencia Anual Suiza e...
Climate threat on the Macaronesian endemic bryophyte flora
Patiño, Jairo; Mateo, Rubén G.; Zanatta, Florian; Marquet, Adrien; Aranda, Silvia C.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Dirkse, Gerard; Gabriel, RosalinaOceanic islands are of fundamental importance for the conservation of biodiversity because they exhibit high endemism rates coupled with fast extinction rates. Nowhere in Europe is this pattern more conspicuous than in the Macaronesian biogeographic region. A large network of protected areas within the region has been developed, but the question of whether these areas will still be climatically suitable for the...