Ecography

The Ecography paper 'Using historical data to assess the biogeography of population recovery' was featured in a National Geographic article.

As a result of the rebound in Hawaiian sea turtle numbers, some have called for the species to be removed from federal protection, de-listed as a threatened species, and for harvests to reopen. However, this study demonstrates that 80% of the historically major nesting sites for the population are extirpated or dramatically reduced and shows how this concentrates the risks posed by climate change. Read more

The Ecography paper 'Grassland connectivity by motor vehicles and grazing livestock' was featured in a Conservation Magazine article.

The Ecography paper 'Ant mosaics occur in SE Asian oil palm plantation but not rain forest and are influenced by the presence of nest-sites and non-native species' was featured in a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) article.

The Ecography paper 'Increase of island endemism with altitude – speciation processes on oceanic islands' was featured in a Science Daily article and in CORDIS News.

Read Science Daily Article: Climate Change Bird Atlas
CORDIS News Article: Exclusive species found at higher altitudes

The Ecography paper 'Changes in potential habitat of 147 North American breeding bird species in response to redistribution of trees and climate following predicted climate change' was featured in a Mother Jones article.

Read Article: Climate Change Bird Atlas

The Ecography paper 'Geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting the control of invasive species' was featured on ScienceDaily

Read Article: Fighting Crimes Against Biodiversity: How to Catch a Killer Weed

Faculty of 1000
Recent Ecography papers, reviewed by Faculty of 1000:

Common and rare species respond to similar niche processes in macroinvertebrate metacommunities
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Geography, topography, and history affect realized to potential tree species richness patterns in Europe
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Read the latest virtual special issue online:

The Patterns and Causes of Elevational Diversity Gradients

Understanding how and why diversity varies systematically with elevation has been a focus of research in spatial ecology since the days of the earliest naturalists. Indeed, over the past 25 years, Ecography has served as a key outlet for many of the studies examining the underlying causes of elevational diversity gradients. This Virtual Issue highlights some of the key papers that have had (or may have) lasting impressions on the field.

Science highlights Ecography as the first journal to participate in the Peerage of Science peer review initiative. This alternative submission path allows authors to decide deadlines and rewards reviewers for high-quality reviewing; Ecography can offer publishing directly to qualified manuscripts.

The following articles have been selected by the Editors as ones of particular interest or high quality - read them for free online now!

Species loss and gain in communities under future climate change: consequences for functional diversity
Rachael V. Gallagher, Lesley Hughes and Michelle R. Leishman

Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversities of butterfly communities correlate with climate in the western Swiss Alps
Loïc Pellissier, Nadir Alvarez, Anahí Espíndola, Julien Pottier, Anne Dubuis, Jean-Nicolas Pradervand and Antoine Guisan

Software notes published in Ecography provide the basic rationale behind the software, its basic functions, and sample usage, output, and interpretation. A link to a persistent website where the software may be downloaded is provided in each case.

Recent Software Notes:

VisTrails SAHM: visualization and workflow management for species habitat modeling
Jeffrey T. Morisette, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Tracy R. Holcombe, Colin B. Talbert, Drew Ignizio, Marian K. Talbert, Claudio Silva, David Koop, Alan Swanson, Nicholas E. Young

The MIGCLIM R package – seamless integration of dispersal constraints into projections of species distribution models
Robin Engler, Wim Hordijk, Antoine Guisan

demoniche – an R-package for simulating spatially-explicit population dynamics
Hedvig K. Nenzén, Rebecca M. Swab, David A. Keith and Miguel B. Araújo