Diversity and Distributions

Papers
(The TQCC of Diversity and Distributions is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Population genetic patterns of a mangrove‐associated frog reveal its colonization history and habitat connectivity181
A tale of three vines: current and future threats to wild Eurasian grapevine by vineyards and invasive rootstocks113
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The “Trojan horse” strategy: Seed fungal endophyte symbiosis helps to explain the invasion success of the grass, Poa annua, in Maritime Antarctica75
Native vegetation structure, landscape features and climate shape non‐native plant richness and cover in New Zealand native shrublands63
Traits help explain species' performance away from their climate niche centre56
Surprisingly wide climatic niche breadth of a relict mountain species raises hope for survival under climate change51
You Shall Not Pass: The Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone Creates a Boundary to Shortfin Mako Shark Distribution in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean44
Soundscapes and airborne laser scanning identify vegetation density and its interaction with elevation as main driver of bird diversity and community composition40
Non‐Native, Non‐Naturalised Plants Suffer Less Herbivory Than Native Plants Across European Botanical Gardens39
Extinction and Ecosystem Function Debt Across Dispersal Rate and Behaviour in a Heterogeneous Metacommunity Model38
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Plant–frugivore interactions across the Caribbean islands: Modularity, invader complexes and the importance of generalist species36
Ecological niche modelling and population genomics provide insights into the geographic and demographic ‘explosion’ of a non‐indigenous salmonid35
Sticking around: Plant persistence strategies on edaphic islands35
Effects of land use and climate change on functional and phylogenetic diversity of terrestrial vertebrates in a Himalayan biodiversity hotspot35
Macro‐evolutionary dynamics dominated by dispersal promote the formation of regional biodiversity hotspot‐insights from hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in South China34
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Divergent responses of highly migratory species to climate change in the California Current32
Habitat suitability models based on opportunistic citizen science data: Evaluating forecasts from alternative methods versus an individual‐based model31
Rapid bird species recovery following high‐severity wildfire but in the absence of early successional specialists30
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Depleted cultural richness of an avian vocal mimic in fragmented habitat30
Modelling the distribution of rare invertebrates by correcting class imbalance and spatial bias29
Design considerations for rapid biodiversity reconnaissance surveys and long‐term monitoring to assess the impact of wildfire29
Conservation of Chinese Theaceae species under future climate and land use changes28
Global habitat loss of a highly migratory predator, the blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)26
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Increased landscape disturbance and streamflow variability threaten fish biodiversity in the Red River catchment, USA23
Riding an escalator: upward range shift and patterns of genetic response to climate change in Acer caudatifolium23
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The observed link between urbanization and invasion can depend on how invasion is measured22
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Mapping the impacts of multiple stressors on the decline in kelps along the coast of Victoria, Australia22
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Hydrothermal vent fauna of the western Pacific Ocean: Distribution patterns and biogeographic networks22
Mollusc aquaculture homogenizes intertidal soft‐sediment communities along the 18,400 km long coastline of China21
Protecting alpine biodiversity in the Middle East from climate change: Implications for high‐elevation birds21
Integrating multiple data sources to develop range and area of habitat maps tailored for local contexts20
How would estimation of geographic range shifts of marine fishes be different when using occurrence and abundance data?20
Explaining the anuran beta diversity by pond‐living tadpoles: the role of dispersal limitation and environmental gradients through multiple scales20
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Seasonal patterns of juvenile fish assemblages in the surf zones of tropical sandy beaches along Gaolong Bay, Hainan Island, China20
Seasonal distribution patterns and conservation gaps of blue sharks in the Indo‐Western Pacific Ocean20
Estimating species distribution from camera trap by‐catch data, using jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) as an example20
Analysing spatio‐temporal patterns of non‐native fish in a biodiversity hotspot across decades20
Elevation filters bat, rodent and shrew communities differently by morphological traits19
Depth and temperature drive patterns of spatial overlap among fish thermal guilds in lakes across Ontario, Canada19
Challenging the geographic bias in recognising large‐scale patterns of diversity change19
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Combining expert‐based and computational approaches to design protected river networks under climate change18
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Implications of macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution for freshwater assessments using functional traits: The Paute River Basin (Ecuador) case18
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Projected climate‐driven shifts in coral distribution indicate tropicalisation of Southwestern Atlantic reefs18
Searching for refuge: A framework for identifying site factors conferring resistance to climate‐driven vegetation change17
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Invasive herbaceous respond more negatively to elevated ozone concentration than native species17
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Hiking trails shift plant species' realized climatic niches and locally increase species richness17
Rapid morphological change in a small mammal species after habitat fragmentation over the past half‐century17
Limited complementarity of functional and taxonomic diversity in Chilean benthic marine invertebrates17
Distribution of functionally distinct native and non‐indigenous species within marine urban habitats17
A hotspot of groundwater amphipod diversity on a crossroad of evolutionary radiations16
Patch characteristics and domestic dogs differentially affect carnivore space use in fragmented landscapes in southern Chile16
Conservation prioritization based on past cascading climatic effects on genetic diversity and population size dynamics: Insights from a temperate tree species16
Distance From the Road, Habitat Type and Environmental Factors Predict Distribution of Invasive and Native Plant Species in the Above‐Ground Vegetation and Soil Seedbanks16
Where have all the lions gone? Establishing realistic baselines to assess decline and recovery of African lions16
Reproductive traits explain occupancy of predicted distributions in a genus of eastern North American understory herbs16
New progress in exploring the mechanisms underlying extraordinarily high biodiversity in global hotspots and their implications for conservation16
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Eutrophication modifies the relationships between multiple facets of macroinvertebrate beta diversity and geographic distance in freshwater lakes16
Functional biogeography of marine vertebrates in Atlantic Ocean reefs16
Connectivity and conservation of Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) habitat in Liberia16
Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia16
Expanding from local to continental scale—A genetic assessment of the Eurasian wolverine15
Widespread and Diverging Patterns of Change in Local Phylogenetic Diversity15
Using near‐ground leaf temperatures alters the projected climate change impacts on the historical range of a floristic biodiversity hotspot15
eDNA metabarcoding in lakes to quantify influences of landscape features and human activity on aquatic invasive species prevalence and fish community diversity15
Historical Bird Atlas and Contemporary Citizen Science Data Reveal Long‐Term Changes in Geographic Range of Kenyan Birds15
Structural and functional effects of global invasion pressure on benthic marine communities—patterns, challenges and priorities15
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Adjacent crop type impacts potential pollinator communities and their pollination services in remnants of natural vegetation15
Multi‐Taxon Predictions of Deep‐Sea Corals and Sponges From Stacked Species Distribution Models in the United States West Coast Exclusive Economic Zone and Relation to Trawl Closure Zones15
Climate change is predicted to impact the global distribution and richness of pines (genus Pinus) by 207015
Collaboration for conservation: Assessing countrywide carnivore occupancy dynamics from sparse data15
Effective strategies for correcting spatial sampling bias in species distribution models without independent test data15
Re‐surveys reveal biotic homogenization of Orthoptera assemblages as a consequence of environmental change15
The climate crisis affects Mediterranean marine molluscs of conservation concern14
Broad‐scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine‐scale mechanisms of coexistence14
Species' movement influence responses to habitat fragmentation14
No country for small birds: Potential positive association among medium‐sized, aggressive species in Australian bird communities14
Past forest cover explains current genetic differentiation in the Carpathian newt (Lissotriton montandoni), but not in the smooth newt (L. vulgaris)14
Naturalization of introduced plants is driven by life‐form‐dependent cultivation biases14
Diversity and conservation of endemic true bugs for four family groups in China14
Cross‐scale drivers of woody plant species commonness and rarity in the Brazilian drylands14
Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes14
Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire13
Genogeographic clustering to identify cross‐species concordance of spatial genetic patterns13
The global exposure of species ranges and protected areas to forest management13
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Recent advances in environmental DNA‐based biodiversity assessment and conservation13
Partitioning beta diversity to untangle mechanisms underlying the assembly of bird communities in Mediterranean olive groves13
International imports and climatic filtering drive compositional variation in non‐native insect establishments13
Invasion disharmony in the global biogeography of native and non‐native beetle species13
Temperature seasonality drives taxonomic and functional homogenization of tropical butterflies13
Biases and distribution patterns in hard‐bodied microscopic animals (Acari: Halacaridae): Size does not matter, but generalism and sampling effort do13
Tight spatial coupling of a marine predator with soniferous fishes: Using joint modelling to aid in ecosystem approaches to management13
Accounting for uncertainty in marine ecosystem service predictions for spatial prioritisation13
Climate change threatens the future viability of translocated populations12
Identifying Drivers of Shrubland Biomass in Southern California12
Diversity and patterns of marine non‐native species in the archipelagos of Macaronesia12
Global distribution modelling of a conspicuous Gondwanian soil protist reveals latitudinal dispersal limitation and range contraction in response to climate warming12
Climate‐induced plasticity in leaf traits of riparian plants12
Three hundred years of past and future changes for native fish species in the upper Danube River Basin—Historical flow alterations versus future climate change12
A genus at risk: Predicted current and future distribution of all three Lagopus species reveal sensitivity to climate change and efficacy of protected areas12
Habitat alteration facilitates the dominance of invasive species through disrupting niche partitioning in floodplain wetlands12
Biological traits, geographic distributions, and species conservation in aquatic ecosystems12
Comparing species and evolutionary diversity metrics to inform conservation12
Predicting potential distributions of large carnivores in Kenya: An occupancy study to guide conservation12
Changes in plant species richness due to land use and nitrogen deposition across the globe12
Trait‐habitat associations explain novel bird assemblages mixing native and alien species across New Zealand landscapes12
Similar species, different fates: Abundance dynamics in spatially structured populations of common and threatened frogs12
Modelling the biodiversity enhancement value of seagrass beds12
Mesophotic coral ecosystems of French Polynesia are hotspots of alpha and beta generic diversity for scleractinian assemblages12
Prey resources are equally important as climatic conditions for predicting the distribution of a broad‐ranged apex predator12
Convergent niche shifts of endangered parrots (genus Amazona) during successful establishment in urban southern California12
Effects of land‐use change on avian taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in a tropical montane rainforest12
Target‐group backgrounds prove effective at correcting sampling bias in Maxent models12
Metabarcoding reveals seasonal and spatial patterns of arthropod community assemblages in two contrasting habitats: Desert and oasis of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico12
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Multiple facets of biodiversity are threatened by mining‐induced land‐use change in the Brazilian Amazon11
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Classic or hybrid? The performance of next generation ecological models to study the response of Southern Ocean species to changing environmental conditions11
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Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic11
Evaluating temporal turnover in avian species richness in a Mediterranean semiarid region: Different responses to elevation and forest cover11
Light and temperature drive the distribution of mesophotic benthic communities in the Central Indian Ocean11
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Biogeographic patterns of Pacific white‐sided dolphins based on long‐term passive acoustic records10
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A Synthesis of Threats Impacting Australian Threatened Ecological Communities10
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Contrasting Patterns of Population Genomic Structure Between Broadcast‐Spawning and Brooding Corals in Southeast Asia10
Climate relict vulnerable to extinction from multiple climate‐driven threats10
What remains to be discovered: A global assessment of tree species inventory completeness10
Why so many Hemiptera invasions?10
The Distribution of Wild Bee Species Along a Latitudinal Gradient in Northern Europe Depends on Their Flower Preferences10
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Extinction risk is linked to lifestyle in freshwater gastropods10
Independent variation of avian sensitivity to climate change and trait‐based adaptive capacity along a tropical elevational gradient10
Structure and diversity patterns of coralligenous cliffs across three ecoregions in the Central‐Western Mediterranean Sea10
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Limited hybridisation and introgression despite stocking among endemic Interior Highlands black basses (Centrarchidae: Micropterus)10
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Population genetic patterns across the native and invasive range of a widely distributed seagrass: Phylogeographic structure, invasive history and conservation implications9
Long‐Term Stability of Marine Forests Facing Moderate Gradual Warming in a Remote Biodiversity Hotspot9
Climate and anthropogenic activities threaten two langur species irrespective of their range size9
Generalized nonlinear models can solve the prediction problem for data from species‐stratified use‐availability designs9
Intermediate fire severity diversity promotes richness of forest carnivores in California9
Which metrics derived from airborne laser scanning are essential to measure the vertical profile of ecosystems?9
Revealing the drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of nearshore fish assemblages: Implications for conservation priorities9
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Influence of climate and landscape on genetic differentiation of aardvarks (Orycteropus afer)9
Global Variability of Degree Distribution in Marine Food Webs9
Transboundary conservation hotspots in China and potential impacts of the belt and road initiative9
Invasion history of Lycium ferocissimum in Australia: The impact of admixture on genetic diversity and differentiation9
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Fire, drought and flooding rains: The effect of climatic extremes on bird species’ responses to time since fire9
Biogeography of Angolan rodents: The first glimpse based on phylogenetic evidence9
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Do large termite mounds effect woody plant phylogenetic diversity and endemism across African savannas?9
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