The Pacific Guitarfish May Be Far Rarer Than Scientists Thought

What if a species we thought stretched across thousands of miles of Pacific coastline actually lives in only a fraction of ...
BIOENGINEER

Algeria’s Cork and Holm Oaks Face Shifting Futures as Climate Redraws the Map

Two of the Mediterranean’s most iconic trees are quietly preparing to move house, and scientists in Algeria have now mapped ...
BIOENGINEER

Climate Models Warn East Africa’s Savanna Elephants Could Lose Half Their Habitat by 2050

The African savanna elephant, the largest land animal on Earth and an ecological architect of the continent’s grasslands, is ...
Nature

Species Distribution Modeling in Bat Conservation

Species distribution modelling has emerged as a cornerstone of bat conservation, offering a means to anticipate changes in geographic ranges in response to climate change, habitat alteration and ...
US Geological Survey

Supplemental Results and Code from North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) Integrated Species Distribution Model for Tricolored Bat

Authors Bradley J Udell, Christian Stratton, Kathryn M Irvine, Bethany R Straw, Jonathan Reichard, Sarah M. Gaulke, Jeremy T Coleman, Frank C. Tousley, Andrea N Schuhmann, Rich D Inman, Melinda Turner ...
US Geological Survey

Integrated distribution modeling resolves asynchrony between bat population impacts and occupancy trends through latent abundance

Authors Bradley James Udell, Christian Stratton, Kathryn Irvine, Bethany R. Straw, Jonathan D. Reichard, Sarah M. Gaulke, Jeremy. T.H. Coleman, Frank C Tousley ...
Phys.org

Scientists reveal the distribution pattern of butterfly diversity in China

Wang Rongjiang's research group at the School of Life Sciences and the Center for Ecological Research of Peking University has published a study on the diversity pattern of butterfly species in China.