What's on the horizon for macroecology?

Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles

(2011) Joaquín Hortal et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa—a standardized framework for large-scale environmental monitoring

(2011) Norbert Jürgens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Quaternary and pre-Quaternary historical legacies in the global distribution of a major tropical plant lineage

(2011) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Forecasting species ranges by statistical estimation of ecological niches and spatial population dynamics

(2011) Jörn Pagel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys

(2011) Christoph F. J. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

SESAM - a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio-temporal patterns of species assemblages

(2011) Antoine Guisan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science

(2011) Jürgen Dengler et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Alternative stable states explain unpredictable biological control of Salvinia molesta in Kakadu

(2011) Shon S. Schooler et al.   NATURE

Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance

(2011) Duccio Rocchini et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   SCIENCE

Challenges and Opportunities of Open Data in Ecology

(2011) O. J. Reichman et al.   SCIENCE

Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

(2011) Walter Jetz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Links between the Environment, Abundance and Diversity of Andean Moths

(2010) Jan Beck et al.   BIOTROPICA

Getting the most out of atlas data

(2010) M. P. Robertson et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges and opportunities

(2010) Graeme S. Cumming et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Are exercises like this a good use of anybody's time?

(2010) James S. Hodges   ECOLOGY

Model complexity and information in the data: Could it be a house built on sand?

(2010) Subhash R. Lele   ECOLOGY

Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals

(2010) Isabella Capellini et al.   ECOLOGY

Making more out of sparse data: hierarchical modeling of species communities

(2010) Otso Ovaskainen et al.   ECOLOGY

Regression analysis of spatial data

(2010) Colin M. Beale et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cross-scale variation in species richness-environment associations

(2010) Jonathan Belmaker et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Towards a biogeographic regionalization of the European biota

(2010) Marta Rueda et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions

(2010) Holger Kreft et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant names in vegetation databases - a neglected source of bias

(2010) Florian Jansen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

An allometric model of home range formation explains the structuring of animal communities exploiting heterogeneous resources

(2010) Carsten M. Buchmann et al.   OIKOS

Macroecological signals of species interactions in the Danish avifauna

(2010) N. J. Gotelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices

(2010) Michael C. Whitlock   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data

(2010) Elizabeth H. Boakes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Biodiversity informatics: automated approaches for documenting global biodiversity patterns and processes

(2009) R. Guralnick et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution of climate niches in European mammals?

(2009) C. F. Dormann et al.   Biology Letters

MigClim: Predicting plant distribution and dispersal in a changing climate

(2009) Robin Engler et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Towards a coherent allometric framework for individual home ranges, key population patches and geographic ranges

(2009) A. Jan Hendriks et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Static species distribution models in dynamically changing systems: how good can predictions really be?

(2009) Damaris Zurell et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

(2009) L. Mauricio Bini et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A flexible multi-scale approach for standardised recording of plant species richness patterns

(2009) Jürgen Dengler   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology

(2009) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting the past distribution of species climatic niches

(2009) David Nogués-Bravo   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Combining spatial and phylogenetic eigenvector filtering in trait analysis

(2009) Ingolf Kühn et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Separating the influences of environment and species interactions on patterns of distribution and abundance: competition between large herbivores

(2009) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Substrate dependency of Lateglacial forests in north-east Germany: untangling vegetation patterns, ecological amplitudes and pollen dispersal in the past by downscaling regional pollen

(2009) Martin Theuerkauf et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

(2009) M. Winter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species Selection: Theory and Data

(2008) David Jablonski   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

COMPONENTS OF UNCERTAINTY IN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE

(2008) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOLOGY

CLIMATE CHANGE CAN CAUSE SPATIAL MISMATCH OF TROPHICALLY INTERACTING SPECIES

(2008) Oliver Schweiger et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time

(2008) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global climate patterns explain range-wide synchronicity in survival of a migratory seabird

(2008) STEPHANIE JENOUVRIER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Latitudinal variation of diversity in European freshwater animals is not concordant across habitat types

(2008) Christian Hof et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Body size frequency distributions in African mammals are bimodal at all spatial scales

(2008) Douglas A. Kelt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial species-richness gradients across scales: a meta-analysis

(2008) Richard Field et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogeography: retrospect and prospect

(2008) John C. Avise   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Microrefugia

(2008) Valentí Rull   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic structure of local communities predicts the size of the regional species pool

(2008) Pille Gerhold et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history

(2008) D. H. Erwin   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Continental diatom biodiversity in stream benthos declines as more nutrients become limiting

(2008) S. I. Passy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

(2008) T. J. Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time

(2008) Brent C. Emerson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatial scale, abundance and the species–energy relationship in British birds

(2007) Karl L. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY