Predicting range shifts of Asian elephants under global change

Using interviews and biological sign surveys to infer seasonal use of forested and agricultural portions of a human-dominated landscape by Asian elephants in Nepal

(2017) Babu R. Lamichhane et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How complex should models be? Comparing correlative and mechanistic range dynamics models

(2017) Damien A. Fordham et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

(2017) Gretta T. Pecl et al.   SCIENCE

Prolonged drought results in starvation of African elephant ( Loxodonta africana )

(2016) Yussuf A. Wato et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate change, species range shifts and dispersal corridors: an evaluation of spatial conservation models

(2016) Diogo Alagador et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Changing characteristics of extreme wet and dry spells of Indian monsoon rainfall

(2016) R. Vinnarasi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Distribution, relative abundance, and conservation status of Asian elephants in Karnataka, southern India

(2015) M.D. Madhusudan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Robust signals of future projections of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by IPCC AR5 climate models: Role of seasonal cycle and interannual variability

(2015) C. B. Jayasankar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Evaluating the combined effects of climate and land-use change on tree species distributions

(2015) Raúl García-Valdés et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Patterns and Determinants of Habitat Occupancy by the Asian Elephant in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India

(2015) Devcharan Jathanna et al.   PLoS One

Climate-related range shifts - a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

(2014) J. Lenoir et al.   ECOGRAPHY

What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?

(2014) Cory Merow et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Trends in extreme daily rainfall and temperature indices over South Asia

(2014) M. M. Sheikh et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity forMaxentecological niche models

(2014) Robert Muscarella et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Observed changes in extreme wet and dry spells during the South Asian summer monsoon season

(2014) Deepti Singh et al.   Nature Climate Change

Using individual-based movement models to assess inter-patch connectivity for large carnivores in fragmented landscapes

(2013) Rajapandian Kanagaraj et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Community-level vs species-specific approaches to model selection

(2013) Bénédicte Madon et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climatic variation and age-specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar

(2013) Hannah S. Mumby et al.   ECOLOGY

Making better Maxentmodels of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation

(2013) Aleksandar Radosavljevic et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

(2013) R. Condit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A statistically predictive model for future monsoon failure in India

(2012) Jacob Schewe et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Animal Perception of Seasonal Thresholds: Changes in Elephant Movement in Relation to Rainfall Patterns

(2012) Patricia J. Birkett et al.   PLoS One

Usual Populations, Unusual Individuals: Insights into the Behavior and Management of Asian Elephants in Fragmented Landscapes

(2012) Nishant M. Srinivasaiah et al.   PLoS One

Focus on poleward shifts in species' distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change

(2012) Jeremy VanDerWal et al.   Nature Climate Change

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Comment on "Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species' Optimum Elevations"

(2011) N. L. Stephenson et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in human-dominated landscapes: Forest commons in South Asia

(2010) Lauren Persha et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

(2010) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Ecological niche modeling in Maxent: the importance of model complexity and the performance of model selection criteria

(2010) Dan L. Warren et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Active and break spells of the Indian summer monsoon

(2010) M. Rajeevan et al.   Journal of Earth System Science

Cryptic destruction of India's native forests

(2010) Jean-Philippe Puyravaud et al.   Conservation Letters

Projected climate-induced faunal change in the Western Hemisphere

(2009) Joshua J. Lawler et al.   ECOLOGY

Suppression of south Asian summer monsoon precipitation in the 21st century

(2009) Moetasim Ashfaq et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Optimizing resiliency of reserve networks to climate change: multispecies conservation planning in the Pacific Northwest, USA

(2009) CARLOS CARROLL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ensemble models predict Important Bird Areas in southern Africa will become less effective for conserving endemic birds under climate change

(2009) Bernard W. T. Coetzee et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Severe drought and calf survival in elephants

(2008) C. Foley et al.   Biology Letters

Evaluation of consensus methods in predictive species distribution modelling

(2008) Mathieu Marmion et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

(2008) C. Moritz et al.   SCIENCE

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

(2008) Z. G. Bai et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Ranging behavior of the Asian elephant in Sri Lanka

(2007) Prithiviraj Fernando et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY