Understanding factors that cause species' geographic range limits is a major focus in ecology and evolution. The central marginal hypothesis (CMH) predicts that species cannot adapt to conditions beyond current geographic range edges because genetic diversity decreases from core to edge due to smaller, more isolated edge populations. We employed a population genomics framework using 24 235-33 1...

The potential distribution of critically rare or endangered species is necessary to assess species conservation status and guide recovery plans. Habitat models based on remotely sensed geospatial data are increasingly used to predict the suitability of sites for rare and endangered species, but in rapidly changing landscapes, habitat evaluations must reflect temporal as well as spatial variatio...

Background Lesbia nuna, a hummingbird distributed in the tropical Andes, has been included in Venezuela's bird list on the basis of a specimen collected in 1873 at Sierra Nevada, Mérida and deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with no further records for this country since then. This record, largely considered as valid by most authors, has been questioned by others, although without...

nowadays, air pollution is one of the main challenges worldwide. there have been significant improvements in air quality dispersion modelling. aermod is one of these models which is based upon the gaussian model. however, aermod has some limitations in terms of data input and output. therefore improving this model as well as developing new models adopted to our country is required to be address...

Global change has made it important to understand the factors that shape species' distributions. Central to this area of research is the question of whether species' range limits primarily reflect the distribution of suitable habitat (i.e. niche limits) or arise as a result of dispersal limitation. Over-the-edge transplant experiments and ecological niche models are commonly used to address thi...

Arboreal marsupials play an essential role in ecosystem function including regulating insect and plant populations, facilitating pollen and seed dispersal and acting as a prey source for higher-order carnivores in Australian environments. Primarily, research has focused on their biology, ecology and response to disturbance in forested and urban environments. We used presence-only species distri...

Predicting the probability of successful establishment of plant species by matching climatic variables has considerable potential for incorporation in early warning systems for the management of biological invasions. We select South Africa as a model source area of invasions worldwide because it is an important exporter of plant species to other parts of the world because of the huge internatio...

raccoon is a native species to north and central america. at present, it is an invasive species in many countries such as japan, germany, russia and iran. raccoon was observed for the first time in gilan province in iran in 1991. this research was employed ecological niche factor analysis (enfa) method to model habitat selection of raccoon in lavandevil wildlife refuge. the results showed that ...

Understanding the environmental drivers of ecological niche rare plant species is crucial for conservation programs. We have examined Astragalus tragacantha L. This main component relict west-Mediterranean phrygana, a community impacted by urbanization and landscape degradation which are major threats biodiversity Mediterranean littoral. During our field work in Provence (southern France), we s...