Global environmental changes are affecting biological systems across the planet, but limited understanding of ecological dynamics and feedbacks hampers predictive understanding of such effects. Macroecology (“the ecology of large scales”) has long...
Schematic illustrations of forest-derived infections. The left panel represents a forested pristine environment with colored dots illustrating the distribution of four different emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), naturally present in this type of ecosystem, and...
Photo by M. G. Betts.
By Josée S. Rousseau and Matthew G. Betts
Predicting the abundance of birds across large geographical areas is essential for sound conservation planning. However, as the saying goes...
Through its Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), the United Nations calls upon our global community to massively upscale the recovery of degraded nature, in order to fight our climate and biodiversity crises more effectively....
Figure 1. Aerial view of the Thousand Island Lake islands at daybreak. Photo by Pan Jingcao.
By Shilu Zheng, Raphael K. Didham, Mingjian Yu, Bruce L. Webber
Looking for patterns in the morphological features of...
Figure 1. Some flowering species found in Finger Rock Canyon. (a) Allium macropetalum, (b) Uropappus lindleyi, (c) Portulaca umbraticola subsp. lanceolata, (d) Claytonia perfoliata, (e) Mammillaria grahamii, (f) ...
Figure 1. A dispersal heatmap showing how often each cell was part of an individual dispersal trajectory, overlaid on a patch-based landscape. All dispersers started from the large patch on the center left. Find out how to generate results like this with our RangeShifter...
Protea cynaroides, King Protea. Our favorite test case as we developed occCite. Photo courtesy of Hannah Owens.
By Hannah L. Owens and Jamie M. Kass, on behalf of all co-authors
There are...
By Spyros Theodoridis
Climate and land-use change are accelerating and taking their toll on all aspects of biodiversity, from genes, to species, to ecosystems. In response to...
Please welcome our new Forum editor: Barry Brook!
Barry Brook is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania. His research focuses on wildlife ecology, the impacts of land...
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