Article
Ecology
Nicky Lustenhouwer, Ingrid M. Parker
Summary: This study compared niche shifts in a Mediterranean annual plant during both native range expansion and invasions. The findings suggest that niche shifts in invasive species are not necessarily faster than those in native range expansions, and niche expansion during climate tracking may cause further range expansion beyond expectations based on climate change alone.
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lixia Han, Zhixin Zhang, Weishan Tu, Qing Zhang, Yanhua Hong, Shengnan Chen, Zhiqiang Lin, Shimin Gu, Yuanbao Du, Zhengjun Wu, Xuan Liu
Summary: Many studies have questioned the niche conservatism hypothesis (NCH) and the usefulness of ecological niche models (ENMs) for predicting species distributions, as they have detected climatic niche shifts during range changes. Incorporating preferred prey in the assessment of NCH and ENM predictions improved the accuracy of predicting range shifts for the Asian openbill bird. Identifying species' preferred prey provides insights into the importance of trophic interactions and their impact on species distributions in response to climate change.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Shawan Chowdhury, Michael F. Braby, Richard A. Fuller, Myron P. Zalucki
Summary: The Tawny Coster butterfly has rapidly expanded its geographic range in Australia at an average rate of about 135 km/year, with female-biased migration observed in north-eastern Queensland. Despite the rapid expansion, there is little evidence of a significant climatic niche shift, with only minor changes observed in the early and late expansion phases. The sudden expansion could potentially be triggered by tropical deforestation, but further research is needed to understand the underlying mechanisms involved.
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shengnan Yang, Xiaoyi Wang, Junhua Hu
Summary: Amphibians are at risk of habitat loss and fragmentation due to climate change, impacting their ability to adapt. The study predicts significant habitat and connectivity losses for mountain frogs in central and southern China, with increased fragmentation and optimistic projections along the Sichuan Basin. Conservation strategies should focus on preserving climate-change refugia and habitat connectivity to ensure species persistence.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Paolo Biella, Aleksandar Cetkovic, Andrej Gogala, Johann Neumayer, Miklos Sarospataki, Peter Sima, Vladimir Smetana
Summary: The study found that the bumblebee species Bombus haematurus has naturally expanded to territories encompassing 20% of its historical distribution in 7 European countries, with no major niche shifts observed between newly colonized and historical areas. The range expansion was associated with warming temperatures during winter, suggesting that warmer winters may be linked to the process of natural colonization of new areas.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Benjamin R. Shipley, Renee Bach, Younje Do, Heather Strathearn, Jenny L. McGuire, Bistra Dilkina
Summary: Understanding species range shifts under climate change is crucial for conservation. The megaSDM R package enhances spatiotemporal SDM analyses by incorporating dispersal probabilities and handling large datasets efficiently, providing a variety of outputs and visual representations. This tool offers advantages such as parallelization, environmental subsampling, and creating time-maps to compare dispersal-limited predictions.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Dagmar M. Hanz, Vanessa Cutts, Martha Paola Barajas-Barbosa, Adam Algar, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Flavien Collart, Jose Maria Fernandez-Palacios, Richard Field, Dirk N. Karger, David R. Kienle, Holger Kreft, Jairo Patino, Franziska Schrodt, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Patrick Weigelt, Severin D. H. Irl
Summary: Oceanic islands, including the Canary Islands in Spain, have unique floras with a high proportion of endemic species. This study aimed to assess the impact of climate change on the range sizes of island plants and identify species in need of conservation. The results showed that single-island endemic species are projected to lose a greater proportion of their climatically suitable area compared to archipelago endemics or nonendemic native species.
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Max Mallen-Cooper, William K. Cornwell, Eve Slavich, Manon E. B. Sabot, Zoe A. Xirocostas, David J. Eldridge
Summary: Based on a 25-year-old biocrust survey in south-eastern Australia, this study found that most taxa of biocrusts have experienced shifts in their climate niches towards hotter and drier conditions in the past quarter century. However, the majority of taxa showed consistent responses and remained in the same geographic range, except for a few taxa that exhibited contraction at their arid range edges. This suggests that biocrust species are lagging behind the pace of climate change and may incur losses in ecosystem functionality in the contracting front.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Hannu Poysa, Antti Paasivaara
Summary: This study investigated how the distribution of breeding individuals and breeding success of waterbirds in Southeastern Finland changed along gradients in ice-out date and habitat structure. The research found significant differences in distribution and breeding success of different species along environmental gradients. The potentially positive impact of climate change on breeding phenology was outweighed by negative changes in habitat quality.
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Chiara Mancino, Daniele Canestrelli, Luigi Maiorano
Summary: Global changes pose a significant threat to biodiversity, especially for species that use different habitats during their life cycles. This study focuses on loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea and examines how climate change and habitat destruction interact to affect their nesting grounds. The results suggest a shift in nesting grounds towards the northwest Mediterranean, with anthropogenic variables and sea surface temperature playing significant roles in nesting probability.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jenny A. Hodgson, Zoe Randle, Chris R. Shortall, Tom H. Oliver
Summary: There is little empirical evidence on how the configuration of habitat affects expansion at species' cool range margins. This study analyzed colonization events of southerly distributed moths in Britain and found that habitat configuration influences contemporary range shifts. Woodland species' colonization was predicted by woodland habitat conductance, regardless of dispersal distances and habitat needs. For species associated with farmland or suburban habitats, colonization was slower in landscapes with high variance in elevation and/or temperature.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Xinju Wei, Danping Xu, Quanwei Liu, Yuhan Wu, Zhihang Zhuo
Summary: The study used the MaxEnt model and ArcGIS to predict the potential distribution of the wood-boring pest Batocera horsfieldi. It found that temperature, precipitation, and altitude were the key environmental factors influencing its distribution. Under future climate scenarios, the suitable distribution areas are expected to expand and shift towards higher latitudes and altitudes.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Devendra Kumar, Aseesh Pandey, Sandeep Rawat, Mayank Joshi, Rajesh Bajpai, Dalip Kumar Upreti, Surendra Pratap Singh
Summary: The study used MaxEnt modeling to predict the suitable habitat for map lichen under future climate change scenarios, indicating a shift of highly suitable areas towards the Eastern Himalaya at higher elevations, with a trend of expanding towards higher elevations in the future. However, this expansion may lead to a loss of habitat in some areas for the species.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Markus Sallmannshofer, Debojyoti Chakraborty, Harald Vacik, Gabor Illes, Markus Loew, Andreas Rechenmacher, Katharina Lapin, Sophie Ette, Dejan Stojanovic, Andrej Kobler, Silvio Schueler
Summary: The study compared global and regional models of native riparian tree species in central to south-eastern Europe, highlighting the importance of soil predictors over bioclimatic variables. The results showed most species are predicted to decrease in future occurrence probability, potentially leading to significant loss for economically and ecologically important tree species.
Article
Ecology
Kim L. Holzmann, Ramona L. Walls, John J. Wiens
Summary: Climate change has already caused local extinction in many plants and animals, and as it accelerates, the pace of extinction may also speed up. This study examined this hypothesis in a montane lizard and found that the rates of local extinction have tripled in the past 7 years compared to the previous 42 years. Genomic data played a role in predicting populations that survived and those that went extinct.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Bakri Nadhurou, Roberta Righini, Marco Gamba, Paola Laiolo, Ahmed Ouledi, Cristina Giacoma
Article
Ecology
Javier Seoane, Paola Laiolo, Jose R. Obeso
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Paola Laiolo, Joaquina Pato, Jose Ramon Obeso
Article
Ecology
Joaquina Pato, Juan Carlos Illera, Jose Ramon Obeso, Paola Laiolo
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2019)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Juan Carlos Illera, Miguel Arenas, Carlos A. Lopez-Sanchez, Jose Ramon Obeso, Paola Laiolo
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paola Laiolo, Joaquina Pato, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Jose Ramon Obeso
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Paola Laiolo, Joaquina Pato, Juan Carlos Illera, Jose Ramon Obeso
Summary: The study found that metal enrichment in insect cuticles plays a role in adaptive variation, with a relationship to environmental and dietary factors. However, there are also important environmental influences among individuals that may limit the potential for diversification of the hardening mechanism.
Article
Ecology
Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Sylvain Abdulhak, Fabio Attorre, Ariel Bergamini, Maria Laura Carranza, Alessandro Chiarucci, Renata Custerevska, Stefan Dullinger, Rosario G. Gavilan, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Nevena Kuzmanovic, Paola Laiolo, Javier Loidi, George P. Malanson, Corrado Marceno, Dordije Milanovic, Elizabeth R. Pansing, Jose V. Roces-Diaz, Eszter Ruprecht, Jozef Sibik, Angela Stanisci, Riccardo Testolin, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Kiril Vassilev, Wolfgang Willner, Manuela Winkler
Summary: The study investigated major determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands in European mountains below 50 degrees N between 1928 and 2019, finding that the number of alpine species is influenced by area, bedrock type, topographic heterogeneity, and regional isolation, while non-alpines are more affected by connectivity and climate.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Maria del Mar Delgado, Raphael Arlettaz, Chiara Bettega, Mattia Brambilla, Miguel de Gabriel Hernando, Antonio Espana, Angel Fernandez-Gonzalez, Angel Fernandez-Martin, Juan Antonio Gil, Sergio Hernandez-Gomez, Paola Laiolo, Jaime Resano-Mayor, Jose Ramon Obeso, Paolo Pedrini, Isabel Roa-Alvarez, Christian Schano, Davide Scridel, Eliseo Strinella, Ignasi Toranzo, Franzi Korner-Nievergelt
Summary: In winter, many animals exhibit gregarious behavior as a common strategy to cope with harsh conditions. The size and timing of group gatherings are influenced by weather conditions, with individuals balancing between seeking resources and reducing risks.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Ines Calvete-Torre, Giulia Alessandri, Christian Milani, Francesca Turroni, Paola Laiolo, Maria Cristina Ossiprandi, Abelardo Margolles, Lorena Ruiz, Marco Ventura
Summary: Ten new Bifidobacterium strains were isolated from various animals and proposed as novel species based on phylogenetic analyses and distinctive phenotypic characteristics compared to known Bifidobacterium species.
SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Paola Laiolo, Juan Carlos Illera, Jose Ramon Obeso
Summary: Dispersal limitations have an impact on the assembly of mountaintop communities and species diversity. Grasshoppers and bumblebees show a trend of reduced wingspan at higher elevations. Mountaintop communities are richer or share more species with lowlands when the average wingspan of their member species is larger. Dispersal processes significantly affect the species composition of mountaintops, with their species richness being more correlated with that of their foothills.
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Ignasi Bartomeus, Jose B. Lanuza, Thomas J. Wood, Luisa Carvalheiro, Francisco P. Molina, Miguel Angel Collado, Luis Oscar Aguado-Martin, David Alomar, Marian Alvarez Fidalgo, Piluca Alvarez Fidalgo, Montse Arista, Blanca Arroyo-Correa, Josep D. Asis, Celeste Azpiazu, Laura Banos-Picon, Pedro Beja, Mario Boieiro, Paulo A. V. Borges, Guillermo Gonzalez Bornay, Rafael Carvalho, Ramon Casimiro-Soriguer, Silvia Castro, Joana Costa, Ian Cross, Pilar De la Rua, Luis Miguel de Pablos, Victor de Paz, Joan Diaz-Calafat, Victoria Ferrrero, Hugo Gaspar, Guillaume Ghisbain, Jose M. Gomez, Carmelo Gomez-Martinez, Miguel A. Gonzalez-Estevez, Ruben Heleno, Jose M. Herrera, Jose I. Hormaza, Jose M. Iriondo, Michael Kuhlmann, Paola Laiolo, Carlos Lara-Romero, Amparo Lazaro, Jesus Lopez-Angulo, Francisco A. Lopez-Nunez, Joao Loureiro, Ainhoa Magrach, Vicente Martinez-Lopez, Carlos Martinez-Nunez, Denis Michez, Marcos Minarro, Ana Montero-Castano, Bruno Moreira, Javier Morente-Lopez, Nacho Noval Fonseca, Alejandro Nunez Carbajal, Jose R. Obeso, Concepcion Ornosa, Francisco J. Ortiz-Sanchez, Daniel Pareja Bonilla, Sebastien Patiny, Andreia Penado, Ana Picanco, Emilie F. Ploquin, Pierre Rasmont, Carla Rego, Pedro J. Rey, Elisa Ribas-Marques, Stuart P. M. Roberts, Marta Rodriguez, Natalia Rosas-Ramos, Ana M. Sanchez, Silvia Santamaria, Estefania Tobajas, Jose Tormos, Felix Torres, Alejandro Trillo, Javier Valverde, Montserrat Vila, Elisa Vinuela
Summary: This study presents a collaborative effort to create a database of Iberian bee occurrences, which is crucial for understanding and conserving bee biodiversity in the Iberian Peninsula.
Review
Ecology
Daniel Garcia, Susana Suarez-Seoane, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, David alvarez, Pedro Alvarez-alvarez, Jose Manuel Alvarez-Martinez, Jose Barquin, Leonor Calvo, Juan Carlos Illera, Paola Laiolo, Ignacio Perez-Silos, Mario Quevedo, Jose Valentin Roces-Diaz, Cristina Santin
Summary: Passive rewilding refers to the spontaneous regeneration of ecosystems after human land use abandonment. It can lead to biodiversity recovery and ecosystem service restoration, but also cause declines in certain species and changes in disturbance regimes. This review integrates current knowledge on the ecological patterns and processes of passive rewilding in the Cantabrian Cordillera, providing a scientific basis for environmental management guidelines.
Article
Ornithology
Javier Garcia, Paola Laiolo, Susana Suarez-Seoane
Summary: Understanding the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on sexual signals (such as bird song) can provide insights into individual quality, habitat degradation, and social environment. This study on Iberian Bluethroat birds found that song performance is influenced by genetic and environmental factors, and song differentiation is correlated with environmental dissimilarity.
Review
Ecology
Jose Ramon Obeso, Paola Laiolo
Summary: Climate change is accelerating life histories of organisms, leading to species having different life cycles at different elevations, adapting to local environmental conditions and changing survival strategies.