W. Jetz

Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate the erosion of species environmental niches

The paper assesses how North American bird species mitigated climate niche loss through geographical redistribution over 20 years, finding partial success with significant remaining exposure to warming.

Choices to landscapes: Mechanisms of animal movement scale to landscape patterns of space use

This paper presents a framework that integrates habitat selection and movement behaviors to predict landscape-scale animal space use, outperforming occurrence-based methods across multiple scales.

Continental species distribution and biodiversity predictions depend on modeling grain

This study shows that finer spatial grain in species distribution models improves predictions of bird distributions and biodiversity at continental scales.

Assessing the impact of binary land cover variables on species distribution models: A North Americanstudy on water birds

This study evaluates how different land cover variable representations affect species distribution model performance and range area estimates for water birds in North America.

A globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow

The paper presents a cleaned and flagged global bee occurrence dataset and an R package to improve data accessibility and reliability for conservation and research.

Ecological causes of uneven mammal diversity

The paper investigates the ecological causes of uneven mammal diversity by analyzing speciation rates and extinction patterns across time-sliced clades.

A phylogeny-informed characterisation of global tetrapod traits addresses data gaps and biases

The paper creates a comprehensive tetrapod trait database using phylogeny-informed imputation, revealing data gaps and biases in trait distribution across species.

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

This study uses spatio-temporal phylogenetic and paleontological models to show that extra-tropical extinctions and tropical species outflow, rather than area or energy, shape present-day tetrapod diversity.

Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale

The paper examines how 619 New World bird species track their environmental niches seasonally, revealing diverse strategies and functional associations with climate change impacts.

EDGE2: advancing the prioritisation of threatened evolutionary history for conservation action

The paper introduces EDGE2, an updated metric for prioritizing species with threatened evolutionary history, showing it prioritizes species with fewer close relatives more than the original EDGE method.

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species: Country Compendium

The paper compiles country-level data on introduced and invasive species to support global monitoring and policy reporting.

Macroevolutionary dynamics of climatic niche space

The paper models the evolution of bird climatic niches across time, finding increased disparity and heterogeneous evolutionary rates, with some lineages showing high rates and others niche stasis.

Policy-relevant indicators for invasive alien species assessment and reporting

The paper introduces three policy-relevant indicators for assessing invasive alien species, focusing on spread rates, impact risk, and status information.

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

The paper shows that collaborative marine protected areas can reduce economic losses and benefit fisheries globally.

A unifying framework for quantifying and comparing n-dimensional hypervolumes

This paper introduces a parametric framework for quantifying and comparing n-dimensional hypervolumes using multivariate normal distributions, enabling partitioning of niche variation components.

Global and national trends in documenting and monitoring species distributions

The paper analyzes global and national trends in documenting species distributions from 1950-2019, finding increasing data coverage but persistent geographic and taxonomic biases.

Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

The paper estimates future opportunities for discovering terrestrial vertebrate species, identifying amphibians, reptiles, and regions like Brazil and Indonesia as high-priority areas.

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

The paper identifies global terrestrial areas prioritized for conservation to maximize synergies between biodiversity, carbon retention, and water provisioning.

Global trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050

The paper assesses historical and future trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050, finding that biodiversity and regulating services have decreased while provisioning services increased, with climate change expected to worsen future losses.

Multi-scale planning helps resolve global conservation needs with regional priorities

The paper develops a multi-scale conservation prioritization framework to identify global land areas needed for species protection, revealing uneven conservation burdens across countries.

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

The paper develops metrics combining phylogenetic diversity and human impact for reptile conservation, finding high human impact areas coincide with high reptilian diversity and identifying data-deficient species as high priority.

Functional community assembly and turnover along elevation and latitude

The paper examines functional community assembly and turnover across elevation and latitude, finding strong biotic constraints and environmental influences on avian communities.

Supporting global biodiversity assessment through high-resolution macroecological modelling: Methodological underpinnings of the BILBI framework

The paper introduces BILBI, a framework for high-resolution macroecological modelling of biodiversity patterns, refining beta-diversity mapping using generalized dissimilarity modelling across global species data.

Phylogenetic and Spatial Distribution of Evolutionary Isolation and Threat in Turtles and Crocodilians (Non-Avian Archosauromorphs)

The paper assesses threat status and evolutionary distinctiveness of turtles and crocodilians using phylogenetic analysis and machine learning, finding extinction risk increases with evolutionary distinctiveness and geographic factors.

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

This paper describes a protocol for comparing biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios to assess future impacts and model uncertainties.

Beta diversity patterns derived from island biogeography theory

The paper integrates beta diversity into the Theory of Island Biogeography, showing it rejects a species-level neutral model for avian communities in Thousand Island Lake.

Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass - Why the largest animals are not the fastest

The paper develops a universal scaling model showing maximum speed peaks at a certain body mass, challenging traditional power-law scaling with empirical data across ecosystems and species.