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Open AccessRevising vulnerability assessments of montane birds in the colombian páramo to account for threats from climate change
Tropical montane ecosystems are highly vulnerable to global climate change, but their species-level conservation vulnerability assessments generally do not incorporate climate threats. The Colombian páramo is ...
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Open AccessLinking climate warming and land conversion to species’ range changes across Great Britain
Although increased temperatures are known to reinforce the effects of habitat destruction at local to landscape scales, evidence of their additive or interactive effects is limited, particularly over larger sp...
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Implications of zero-deforestation palm oil for tropical grassy and dry forest biodiversity
Many companies have made zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs) to reduce carbon emissions and biodiversity losses linked to tropical commodities. However, ZDCs conserve areas primarily based on tree cover and ...
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Open AccessLimited impacts of climatic conditions on commercial oil palm yields in Malaysian plantations
Oil palm is a key driver of deforestation, but increasing yields in existing plantations could help meet rising global demands, while avoiding further conversion of natural habitat. Current oil palm plantation...
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Open AccessSmallholder perceptions of land restoration activities: rewetting tropical peatland oil palm areas in Sumatra, Indonesia
The Indonesian government committed to restoring over 2 million ha of degraded peatland by the end of 2020, mainly to reduce peat fires and greenhouse gas emissions. Although it is unlikely the government will...
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Open AccessLand-use change and propagule pressure promote plant invasions in tropical rainforest remnants
Intact tropical rainforests are considered robust to plant invasions. However, land-use change alters the structure and species composition of native forest, opening up tropical landscapes to invasion. Yet, th...
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Open AccessClimate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year
Advances in phenology (the annual timing of species’ life-cycles) in response to climate change are generally viewed as bioindicators of climate change, but have not been considered as predictors of range expa...
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Open AccessHabitat availability explains variation in climate-driven range shifts across multiple taxonomic groups
Range shifting is vital for species persistence, but there is little consensus on why individual species vary so greatly in the rates at which their ranges have shifted in response to recent climate warming. H...
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Open AccessReduced body sizes in climate-impacted Borneo moth assemblages are primarily explained by range shifts
Both community composition changes due to species redistribution and within-species size shifts may alter body-size structures under climate warming. Here we assess the relative contribution of these processes...
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Author Correction: Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests
Range shifts are a crucial mechanism enabling species to avoid extinction under climate change1,2. The majority of terrestrial biodiversity is concentrated in the tropics3, including species considered most vulne...
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Enrichment planting to improve habitat quality and conservation value of tropical rainforest fragments
Many areas of tropical rainforest have been fragmented and the habitat quality of fragments is often poor. For example, on Borneo, many forest fragments are highly degraded by repeated logging of Dipterocarpac...
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Biodiversity of leaf-litter ants in fragmented tropical rainforests of Borneo: the value of publically and privately managed forest fragments
In view of the rapid rate of expansion of agriculture in tropical regions, attention has focused on the potential for privately-managed rainforest patches within agricultural land to contribute to biodiversity...
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Abundance changes and habitat availability drive species’ responses to climate change
The rate at which species expand their geographic ranges in response to climate warming varies. Now research on British butterflies finds that stable or increasing abundance is a prerequisite for range expansi...
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Trait-dependent declines of species following conversion of rain forest to oil palm plantations
Conversion of natural habitats to agriculture reduces species richness, particularly in highly diverse tropical regions, but its effects on species composition are less well-studied. The conversion of rain for...
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Protected areas of Borneo fail to protect forest landscapes with high habitat connectivity
Throughout the world, previously extensive areas of natural habitats have been degraded and fragmented, and improving habitat connectivity may help the long-term persistence of species, and their ability to ad...
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The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo
The carbon storage and conservation value of old-growth tropical forests is clear, but the value of logged forest is less certain. Here we analyse >100,000 observations of individuals from 11 taxonomic groups ...
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Climate and recent range changes in butterflies
In order to make realistic predictions of species’ responses to future climate change we need to understand the relative importance of biotic versus abiotic factors in limiting species distributions. We focus ...
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Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming
Mean global temperatures have risen this century, and further warming is predicted to continue for the next 50–100 years1,2,3. Some migratory species can respond rapidly to yearly climate variation by altering th...
