The usefulness of species distribution models (SDMs) in predicting impacts of climate change on b... more The usefulness of species distribution models (SDMs) in predicting impacts of climate change on biodiversity is difficult to assess because changes in species ranges may take decades or centuries to occur. One alternative way to evaluate the predictive ability of SDMs across time is to compare their predictions with data on past species distributions. We use data on plant distributions,
Evolutionary history and its relevance in understanding and conserving southern African biodiversity
Much attention has been paid to the effects of climate change on species' extinction rates a... more Much attention has been paid to the effects of climate change on species' extinction rates and range reduction; there is however surprisingly little information on how climate change driven extinctions may impact the tree of life and the loss of phylogenetic diversity (PD). Some plant families and mammal orders have shown non-random extinction patterns, but many other plant families have not. Are these discrepancies due to taxon specific differences or to how many species a group may have lost already? We combine ...
The usefulness of species distribution models (SDMs) in predicting impacts of climate change on b... more The usefulness of species distribution models (SDMs) in predicting impacts of climate change on biodiversity is difficult to assess because changes in species ranges may take decades or centuries to occur. One alternative way to evaluate the predictive ability of SDMs across time is to compare their predictions with data on past species distributions. We use data on plant distributions,
Evolutionary history and its relevance in understanding and conserving southern African biodiversity
Much attention has been paid to the effects of climate change on species' extinction rates a... more Much attention has been paid to the effects of climate change on species' extinction rates and range reduction; there is however surprisingly little information on how climate change driven extinctions may impact the tree of life and the loss of phylogenetic diversity (PD). Some plant families and mammal orders have shown non-random extinction patterns, but many other plant families have not. Are these discrepancies due to taxon specific differences or to how many species a group may have lost already? We combine ...
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