Climate overrides the effects of land use on the functional composition and diversity of Mediterranean reptile assemblages

Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds

(2020) Alex L. Pigot et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

(2020) Jeroen Speybroeck et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta-analysis

(2020) Tim S. Doherty et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns

(2020) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Genetic introgression among differentiated clades is lower among clades exhibiting different parity modes

(2019) J. L. Horreo et al.   HEREDITY

From individual to joint species distribution models: A comparison of model complexity and predictive performance

(2019) Bogdan Caradima et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Robustness of simple avian population trend models for semi-structured citizen science data is species-dependent

(2019) Philipp H. Boersch-Supan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Mapping species richness using opportunistic samples: a case study on ground-floor bryophyte species richness in the Belgian province of Limburg

(2019) Thomas Neyens et al.   Scientific Reports

Thermal biology mediates responses of amphibians and reptiles to habitat modification

(2018) A. Justin Nowakowski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opportunistic records reveal Mediterranean reptiles’ scale-dependent responses to anthropogenic land use

(2018) Thomas De Solan et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Divergent trends in functional and phylogenetic structure in reptile communities across Africa

(2018) Till Ramm et al.   Nature Communications

The signature of human pressure history on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods

(2017) Giovanni Rapacciuolo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeographical, environmental and anthropogenic determinants of global patterns in bird taxonomic and trait turnover

(2017) Jean-Yves Barnagaud et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

(2017) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatial distribution of citizen science casuistic observations for different taxonomic groups

(2017) Patrícia Tiago et al.   Scientific Reports

Using citizen science data to identify the sensitivity of species to human land use

(2016) Brian D. Todd et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

What determines spatial bias in citizen science? Exploring four recording schemes with different proficiency requirements

(2016) Jonas Geldmann et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Can people change the ecological rules that appear general across space?

(2016) A. L. Šizling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?

(2016) Jacob B. Socolar et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Lizards along an agricultural land abandonment gradient in Pindos Mountains, Greece

(2015) Sylvia Zakkak et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research

(2015) E.J. Theobald et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

(2015) Erle C. Ellis   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Science, statistics and surveys: a herpetological perspective

(2015) Richard A. Griffiths et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Efficacy of eBird data as an aid in conservation planning and monitoring

(2015) Corey T. Callaghan et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Updated distribution and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles of Europe

(2014) Neftali Sillero et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Mapping large-scale bird distributions using occupancy models and citizen data with spatially biased sampling effort

(2014) Motoki Higa et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ecological traits influence the phylogenetic structure of bird species co-occurrences worldwide

(2014) Jean-Yves Barnagaud et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Accounting for imperfect detection and survey bias in statistical analysis of presence-only data

(2014) Robert M. Dorazio   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Survey of Zootoca vivipara across the Eastern Italian Alps: Evolutionary Relationships, Historical Demography and Conservation Implications

(2014) Luca Cornetti et al.   PLoS One

Low-Intensity Agricultural Landscapes in Transylvania Support High Butterfly Diversity: Implications for Conservation

(2014) Jacqueline Loos et al.   PLoS One

Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data

(2014) Nick J. B. Isaac et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

(2013) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Opportunistic citizen science data of animal species produce reliable estimates of distribution trends if analysed with occupancy models

(2013) Arco J. van Strien et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

(2012) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

To boldly go where no volunteer has gone before: predicting volunteer activity to prioritize surveys at the landscape scale

(2012) Ayesha I. T. Tulloch et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement

(2012) Janis L Dickinson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Optimizing regional conservation planning for forest birds

(2011) Frederic Beaudry et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Are snake populations in widespread decline?

(2010) C. J. Reading et al.   Biology Letters

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross-continental synthesis

(2010) Erik Öckinger et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Low-intensity agriculture increases farmland bird abundances in France

(2010) Aggeliki Doxa et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Long-term anthropogenic and ecological dynamics of a Mediterranean landscape: Impacts on multiple taxa

(2010) Clélia Sirami et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Biodiversity and Land uses at a regional scale: Is agriculture the biggest threat for reptile assemblages?

(2009) Raquel Ribeiro et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disintegration of the Ecological Community

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Advantages of Volunteer-Based Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe

(2008) DIRK S. SCHMELLER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY