Diversity and Distributions
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Diversity and Distributions is an open access, international, biodiversity journal devoted to the advancement of conservation biogeography 🗺️
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🦆 When do waterbirds need water most? Using #Copernicus data + bird counts, this study maps where surface water limits #waterbirds across the Western Palearctic, revealing seasonal bottlenecks and priority areas for #restoration and conservation.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:51 AM
🦆 When do waterbirds need water most? Using #Copernicus data + bird counts, this study maps where surface water limits #waterbirds across the Western Palearctic, revealing seasonal bottlenecks and priority areas for #restoration and conservation.
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🦎 #ClimateChange threatens Australia’s blue tongue #lizards: niche models project major range losses for 11 of 13 species by 2100, with #protectedareas offering limited refuge, underscoring urgent needs for climate-smart #conservation planning.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM
🦎 #ClimateChange threatens Australia’s blue tongue #lizards: niche models project major range losses for 11 of 13 species by 2100, with #protectedareas offering limited refuge, underscoring urgent needs for climate-smart #conservation planning.
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🌊 Frequent #flooding reshapes riparian #soilmicrobes: high-intensity events slightly raise α-diversity but reduce β-diversity and network complexity, especially in #bacteria, highlighting stronger environmental filtering in #riverineecosystems.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:19 AM
🌊 Frequent #flooding reshapes riparian #soilmicrobes: high-intensity events slightly raise α-diversity but reduce β-diversity and network complexity, especially in #bacteria, highlighting stronger environmental filtering in #riverineecosystems.
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🐚 How will climate warming reshape intertidal competition? Using #EnergyBudget models, this study shows that native and invasive #mussels on South African shores may keep similar ranges, but warming could eventually benefit the native species.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:52 AM
🐚 How will climate warming reshape intertidal competition? Using #EnergyBudget models, this study shows that native and invasive #mussels on South African shores may keep similar ranges, but warming could eventually benefit the native species.
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🔥Climate change may unravel plant–#hummingbird interactions in the #AtlanticForest.
🌺Niche models predict fewer links and lower #network robustness, increasing vulnerability to cascading effects and threatening #ecosystem stability.
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🌺Niche models predict fewer links and lower #network robustness, increasing vulnerability to cascading effects and threatening #ecosystem stability.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:39 AM
🔥Climate change may unravel plant–#hummingbird interactions in the #AtlanticForest.
🌺Niche models predict fewer links and lower #network robustness, increasing vulnerability to cascading effects and threatening #ecosystem stability.
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🌺Niche models predict fewer links and lower #network robustness, increasing vulnerability to cascading effects and threatening #ecosystem stability.
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🕊️ Tracking American Golden Plover #migration reveals low migratory #connectivity: birds from Arctic breeding sites mix widely across #stopovers and southern wintering grounds.
🌐Shared threats along migration routes may impact populations similarly.
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🌐Shared threats along migration routes may impact populations similarly.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
🕊️ Tracking American Golden Plover #migration reveals low migratory #connectivity: birds from Arctic breeding sites mix widely across #stopovers and southern wintering grounds.
🌐Shared threats along migration routes may impact populations similarly.
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🌐Shared threats along migration routes may impact populations similarly.
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🐻 How much space do #brownbears still have in Europe?
🌍 #SDMs show that ~37% of the continent remains suitable #habitat, but #connectivity is fragmented by #agriculture and human development, highlighting the need for transboundary #conservation.
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🌍 #SDMs show that ~37% of the continent remains suitable #habitat, but #connectivity is fragmented by #agriculture and human development, highlighting the need for transboundary #conservation.
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January 12, 2026 at 9:09 AM
🐻 How much space do #brownbears still have in Europe?
🌍 #SDMs show that ~37% of the continent remains suitable #habitat, but #connectivity is fragmented by #agriculture and human development, highlighting the need for transboundary #conservation.
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🌍 #SDMs show that ~37% of the continent remains suitable #habitat, but #connectivity is fragmented by #agriculture and human development, highlighting the need for transboundary #conservation.
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🐬Cetacean data in the North Pacific are mostly summer-biased, yet #dolphinfisheries occur in winter.
Using long-term sightings and #SDMs, this study reveals seasonal distribution shifts and climate-driven changes critical for #cetacean conservation.
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Using long-term sightings and #SDMs, this study reveals seasonal distribution shifts and climate-driven changes critical for #cetacean conservation.
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Seasonal and Multidecadal Changes in the Distribution of Small Cetaceans Inhabiting the Western North Pacific Under a Changing Ocean Environment, Inferred From Species Distribution Models
Aim For several decades, substantial efforts have monitored cetacean distribution and abundance in the western North Pacific. Large-scale visual-based line transect surveys have been conducted since...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:42 AM
🐬Cetacean data in the North Pacific are mostly summer-biased, yet #dolphinfisheries occur in winter.
Using long-term sightings and #SDMs, this study reveals seasonal distribution shifts and climate-driven changes critical for #cetacean conservation.
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Using long-term sightings and #SDMs, this study reveals seasonal distribution shifts and climate-driven changes critical for #cetacean conservation.
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🗞️ New paper out!
⛰️#SpeciesRichness of non-volant #mammals on Papua New Guinea´s highest mountain shows no mid-elevation peak: it rises linearly across continuous #rainforest and drops sharply in the subalpine zone.
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⛰️#SpeciesRichness of non-volant #mammals on Papua New Guinea´s highest mountain shows no mid-elevation peak: it rises linearly across continuous #rainforest and drops sharply in the subalpine zone.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🗞️ New paper out!
⛰️#SpeciesRichness of non-volant #mammals on Papua New Guinea´s highest mountain shows no mid-elevation peak: it rises linearly across continuous #rainforest and drops sharply in the subalpine zone.
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⛰️#SpeciesRichness of non-volant #mammals on Papua New Guinea´s highest mountain shows no mid-elevation peak: it rises linearly across continuous #rainforest and drops sharply in the subalpine zone.
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🎉Proud to share GMA Lab member Marco Davoli won the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award2024 @consbiog.bsky.social🏆Thanks to @jcsvenning.bsky.social @tobiaskuemmerle.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Sophie Monsarrat Jennifer Crees Michela Pacifici Andrea Cristiano onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎉Proud to share GMA Lab member Marco Davoli won the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award2024 @consbiog.bsky.social🏆Thanks to @jcsvenning.bsky.social @tobiaskuemmerle.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Sophie Monsarrat Jennifer Crees Michela Pacifici Andrea Cristiano onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
🎉 AWARDS TIME 🎉
We’re delighted to announce the 2024 Early Career Best Paper Awards in Diversity and Distributions, celebrating outstanding #biogeography and #globalchange research by early-career scientists.
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We’re delighted to announce the 2024 Early Career Best Paper Awards in Diversity and Distributions, celebrating outstanding #biogeography and #globalchange research by early-career scientists.
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Diversity and Distributions: Student and Early Career Researcher Annual Best Paper Awards
Diversity and Distributions is an open access, international, biodiversity journal for research and reviews devoted to the advancement of conservation biogeography
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December 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🎉 AWARDS TIME 🎉
We’re delighted to announce the 2024 Early Career Best Paper Awards in Diversity and Distributions, celebrating outstanding #biogeography and #globalchange research by early-career scientists.
Check this out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
We’re delighted to announce the 2024 Early Career Best Paper Awards in Diversity and Distributions, celebrating outstanding #biogeography and #globalchange research by early-career scientists.
Check this out!
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🌱 Do invasive #plants shift their #niche in China?
Most #alienspecies show strong niche conservatism, with warmer, human-impacted areas driving centroid shifts. Residence time and propagule pressure boost niche filling and thus invasion success. 🌴
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Most #alienspecies show strong niche conservatism, with warmer, human-impacted areas driving centroid shifts. Residence time and propagule pressure boost niche filling and thus invasion success. 🌴
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December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🌱 Do invasive #plants shift their #niche in China?
Most #alienspecies show strong niche conservatism, with warmer, human-impacted areas driving centroid shifts. Residence time and propagule pressure boost niche filling and thus invasion success. 🌴
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Most #alienspecies show strong niche conservatism, with warmer, human-impacted areas driving centroid shifts. Residence time and propagule pressure boost niche filling and thus invasion success. 🌴
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🌎 How will forest #birds in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest fare under #climatechange?
🪶 Models for 292 species reveal range contractions and declines in #taxonomic, functional and #PhylogeneticDiversity, highlighting key subregions for conservation.
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🪶 Models for 292 species reveal range contractions and declines in #taxonomic, functional and #PhylogeneticDiversity, highlighting key subregions for conservation.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🌎 How will forest #birds in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest fare under #climatechange?
🪶 Models for 292 species reveal range contractions and declines in #taxonomic, functional and #PhylogeneticDiversity, highlighting key subregions for conservation.
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🪶 Models for 292 species reveal range contractions and declines in #taxonomic, functional and #PhylogeneticDiversity, highlighting key subregions for conservation.
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🏔️ How are alpine specialists shifting their #niche under #climatechange? A hierarchical framework on an alpine #finch reveals a 40–64% #habitat contraction and an upslope shift of ~280 m, highlighting the value of scaled habitats in conservation.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM
🏔️ How are alpine specialists shifting their #niche under #climatechange? A hierarchical framework on an alpine #finch reveals a 40–64% #habitat contraction and an upslope shift of ~280 m, highlighting the value of scaled habitats in conservation.
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🦇 After severe declines from white-nose syndrome, where do northern long-eared #bats persist?
🔊 #Acoustic data show highest #occupancy on steep, forested, low-impact hillsides and how #spatialmodels plus early-season surveys improve #monitoring.
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🔊 #Acoustic data show highest #occupancy on steep, forested, low-impact hillsides and how #spatialmodels plus early-season surveys improve #monitoring.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
🦇 After severe declines from white-nose syndrome, where do northern long-eared #bats persist?
🔊 #Acoustic data show highest #occupancy on steep, forested, low-impact hillsides and how #spatialmodels plus early-season surveys improve #monitoring.
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🔊 #Acoustic data show highest #occupancy on steep, forested, low-impact hillsides and how #spatialmodels plus early-season surveys improve #monitoring.
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🌍 African #savanna science is heavily skewed: 46% of studies come from just 2% of #ProtectedAreas. Using the new ADSPA geodatabase, this work identifies five #bioclimatic groups and reveals major research gaps across underrepresented savannas. 🐘
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December 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🌍 African #savanna science is heavily skewed: 46% of studies come from just 2% of #ProtectedAreas. Using the new ADSPA geodatabase, this work identifies five #bioclimatic groups and reveals major research gaps across underrepresented savannas. 🐘
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🌱 How far can plants really shift their future range under #climatechange? Using #SDMs for 1318 European species, this study shows that most #plants can’t track shifting climates.
⚠️ Authors suggest caution in assuming #dispersal capability in SDMs.
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⚠️ Authors suggest caution in assuming #dispersal capability in SDMs.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🌱 How far can plants really shift their future range under #climatechange? Using #SDMs for 1318 European species, this study shows that most #plants can’t track shifting climates.
⚠️ Authors suggest caution in assuming #dispersal capability in SDMs.
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⚠️ Authors suggest caution in assuming #dispersal capability in SDMs.
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🐟 In the warming Barents Sea, #fish communities show only partial reversals during brief cooling.
🌐 #Biogeographic responses differ across sub-regions, highlighting that local #heterogeneity matters for management.
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🌐 #Biogeographic responses differ across sub-regions, highlighting that local #heterogeneity matters for management.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🐟 In the warming Barents Sea, #fish communities show only partial reversals during brief cooling.
🌐 #Biogeographic responses differ across sub-regions, highlighting that local #heterogeneity matters for management.
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🌐 #Biogeographic responses differ across sub-regions, highlighting that local #heterogeneity matters for management.
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🐆 How much did Asian leopards adapt after dispersing from Africa? A global #SDM shows most Asian subspecies still occupy an ancestral #bioclimatic niche, with limited shifts into colder or more seasonal environments, mainly in the Persian #leopard.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🐆 How much did Asian leopards adapt after dispersing from Africa? A global #SDM shows most Asian subspecies still occupy an ancestral #bioclimatic niche, with limited shifts into colder or more seasonal environments, mainly in the Persian #leopard.
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⛰️ Along tropical mountains, environmental heterogeneity amplifies the link between #biodiversity and #ecosystemfunctioning.
🌿 Using multiple taxa and functions, this study shows that #speciesrichness, more than turnover, drives BEF relationship.
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🌿 Using multiple taxa and functions, this study shows that #speciesrichness, more than turnover, drives BEF relationship.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
⛰️ Along tropical mountains, environmental heterogeneity amplifies the link between #biodiversity and #ecosystemfunctioning.
🌿 Using multiple taxa and functions, this study shows that #speciesrichness, more than turnover, drives BEF relationship.
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🌿 Using multiple taxa and functions, this study shows that #speciesrichness, more than turnover, drives BEF relationship.
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🧬 This new study aims to advancing #MarineConservation using #metabarcoding and metaphylogeography for a multi-year biomonitoring of #benthic communities of national parks across two seas 🌊
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December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🧬 This new study aims to advancing #MarineConservation using #metabarcoding and metaphylogeography for a multi-year biomonitoring of #benthic communities of national parks across two seas 🌊
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New paper in @consbiog.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:
Bridging the Scotia Arc: Climate‐Driven Shifts in Connectivity of the Freshwater Crustacean Branchinecta gaini in Sub‐Antarctic and Antarctic Ecosystems 🇦🇶🇬🇸🇫🇰
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70049
Bridging the Scotia Arc: Climate‐Driven Shifts in Connectivity of the Freshwater Crustacean Branchinecta gaini in Sub‐Antarctic and Antarctic Ecosystems 🇦🇶🇬🇸🇫🇰
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70049
Bridging the Scotia Arc: Climate‐Driven Shifts in Connectivity of the Freshwater Crustacean Branchinecta gaini in Sub‐Antarctic and Antarctic Ecosystems
Aim To integrate the historical and contemporary connectivity of Branchinecta gaini (B. gaini), in order to better predict future distribution changes within its fragmented, dynamic and isolated hab...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New paper in @consbiog.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:
Bridging the Scotia Arc: Climate‐Driven Shifts in Connectivity of the Freshwater Crustacean Branchinecta gaini in Sub‐Antarctic and Antarctic Ecosystems 🇦🇶🇬🇸🇫🇰
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70049
Bridging the Scotia Arc: Climate‐Driven Shifts in Connectivity of the Freshwater Crustacean Branchinecta gaini in Sub‐Antarctic and Antarctic Ecosystems 🇦🇶🇬🇸🇫🇰
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70049
🌳 New forest plots from the #Congo Basin reveal how #edaphic conditions shape structure, #biodiversity and #carbonstock. Seasonally flooded forests host distinct floras yet store similar AGC to terra firme, highlighting overlooked ecosystems in #tropicalforests.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
🌳 New forest plots from the #Congo Basin reveal how #edaphic conditions shape structure, #biodiversity and #carbonstock. Seasonally flooded forests host distinct floras yet store similar AGC to terra firme, highlighting overlooked ecosystems in #tropicalforests.
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🐟 Extreme drought, intensified by #climatechange, reshaped floodplain #fish communities in China, cutting both taxonomic and functional diversity. Even after hydrological #connectivity was restored, recovery remained incomplete.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🐟 Extreme drought, intensified by #climatechange, reshaped floodplain #fish communities in China, cutting both taxonomic and functional diversity. Even after hydrological #connectivity was restored, recovery remained incomplete.
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🌲 A new molecular phylogeny of the relict genus #Keteleeria reveals six major clades, a Late Cretaceous origin on the Yunnan–Kweichow Plateau, and sharp losses of suitable habitat under future #climatewarming 🔥🌐
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November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🌲 A new molecular phylogeny of the relict genus #Keteleeria reveals six major clades, a Late Cretaceous origin on the Yunnan–Kweichow Plateau, and sharp losses of suitable habitat under future #climatewarming 🔥🌐
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