Science
Review

2014

Compiling the year’s research uses ofdata accessed through the
Global Biodiversity Information Facility

2Foreword
This years’ Science Review demonstrates the continued growth
in research that, to a greater or lesser extent, is underpinned bydata made accessible by GBIF. An interesting feature of this year’s
selection of papers are studies that use GBIF-mediated data to
determine the causes of past extinctions, in particular the role
humans may (large mammals) or may not (Mallorcan mountain goat)
have played. This illustrates how the scope of GBIF extends beyond
extant biodiversity to include data that speak to organisms that are
now extinct: GBIF’s scope is expanding both in space and in time.
Browsing the research summarized in the Review, one thing which struck me is that visitors
to GBIF.org currently don’t have an easy way to discover the wealth of research that makes
use of GBIF-mediated data. Imagine being able to visit the GBIF page for a particular dataset
and see the research to which it contributed. Or being able to navigate through a map to see
the geographic distribution of research that builds upon GBIF-mediated data. In a sense, as
the body of research grows, we could envisage GBIF—or others in our wider community—
developing tools to display these research outputs in much the same way that the data itself
are displayed, becoming not just a means of navigating data, but a way to navigate knowledge.
ROD PAGE
Chair, GBIF Science Committee

GBIF SCIENCE COMMITTEE, 2014Roderic Page, Chair
Vice ChairsMark Costello
Arturo Ariño
Jean Cossi Ganglo
Members
Elizabeth Arnaud
Guy Cochrane
Kathy Willis

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About the Science Review
The GBIF Science Review draws from the Secretariat’s
literature tracking programme, an ongoing effort toidentify research uses and citations of biodiversity
data accessed through GBIF’s global infrastructure.
Each issue of the Review assembles a complete
annual list of peer-reviewed scientific papers known tomake substantive use of GBIF-mediated data.
Segments of this growing bibliographic archive­—
which grew by 350 papers in 2014—appears in
relevant contexts across GBIF.org. Noteworthy
uses also appear throughout the year in GBits, theSecretariat’s newsletter; monthly slide updates
from its communications team; and at http://gbif.
org/newsroom/uses. The complete list of citations
from 2008 to 2014 can be viewed at both http://
gbif.org/mendeley or http://www.mendeley.com/
groups/1068301/gbif-public-library.

Those interested in sharing research uses that haveescaped our attention may relay citation information
to comms@gbif.org.
The categories used in the Review are intended tohelp readers navigate the major subject areas of
GBIF-assisted research, but some papers inevitably
span multiple topics. For clarity’s sake, they appear
under only one category in the Review. The countries
assigned to authors are based on the location of
the institutions identified in the author information,
while funding information included for the highlighted
papers draws upon the papers’ acknowledgements.
The examples summarized at the start of each section
highlight a few key research investigations enhancedby the free and open access available through the
GBIF network of Participants and publishers.

CONTENTS
Uses and trends.................................................................................. 4
Invasive alien species........................................................................ 6
Impacts of climate change..............................................................13
Species conservation and protected areas.................................19
Biodiversity and human health......................................................25
Food, farming and biofuels .............................................................26
Ecosystem services........................................................................28
Advancing biodiversity science.....................................................30
Data management............................................................................45
Data papers.......................................................................................47
GBIF as a research infrastructure..................................................48

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Uses and trends
These visualizations of the use of GBIF-mediated data serve to show not just the growing number ofpeer-reviewed publications appearing each year, but also the increasing number of countries, islands
and territories whose institutions host authors who apply the data in their research articles. Eachtrend highlights the GBIF network’s widening sphere of influence and impact on scientific research
related to the biological domain.

Annual number of peer-reviewed publications using GBIF-mediated data

ANNUAL NUMBER OF PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES USING GBIF-MEDIATED DATA
2014 347 350
2013 249 249
2012 229 229
2011 169 1692010 148 148
2009 89 89
2008 52 52

100

200

300

CBD: AMOUNT OF GBIF-MOBILIZED DATA INDICATES PROGRESS TOWARD AICHI TARGET 19
In the 4th Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4),
the Convention on Biological Diversity citedthe amount of data mobilized through the GBIF
network as a primary indicator for measuring
progress toward Aichi Target 19 on the sharingof biodiversity knowledge.
While judging the advances made in building
systems to share biodiversity information
to be ‘on track’, GBO-4 highlighted the needfor further investment in data mobilization
and better, more coordinated models andtechnologies for decision-making.
Learn more at www.cbd.int/gbo4

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NUMBER OF ARTICLES WITH AUTHORS BY COUNTRY

countries with authors
using GBIF-mediated datain peer-reviewed papers
published in 2014114

United States

45

United Kingdom

41

Spain

37

Germany

32

Australia

21

Mexico20

France • Italy

19

Brazil • Netherlands • South Africa

17

Canada16

Argentina

14

Portugal • Switzerland

13

China

10

Poland9

Colombia

8

India • Norway

7

Belgium • Sweden

6

Czech Republic • Kenya • New Zealand • Russia

5

Denmark • Ecuador • Finland • Greece

4Austria3

Chile • Hungary • Iran • Panama • Turkey

2

Costa Rica • Ethiopia • Iceland • Israel • Japan • Peru • Romania
Serbia • Slovakia

1

Belarus • Bolivia • Brunei Darussalam • Bulgaria • Cameroon • Croatia • Egypt
Estonia • Faroe Islands • French Polynesia • Indonesia • Kosovo • Luxembourg
Malawi • Malaysia • Malta • Morocco • Namibia • Nepal • New Caledonia
Nigeria • Papua New Guinea • Rwanda • Singapore • Sudan • Tunisia • Uganda
Uruguay • Yemen

GBIF Regions

77

48+21+136K
38

37

38

79

Asia

Proportion and numberof papers by authors 294
within GBIF regions

131

AfricaEuropeLatin America

North America

Oceaniainvasives

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Invasive alien species
examplesdata absences, especially when such absences
coincide with political delineations.’

IMPROVING ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING
Bradley BA, Early R & Sorte CJB (2014) Space to invade?
Comparative range infilling and potential range of invasive
and native plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
doi:10.1111/geb.12275
Author countries: United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain
Research funding: U.S. Dept of Defense, Strategic
Environmental Research and Development Program

HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA, CC BY-NC 2002, JON SULLIVANHTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/EHS8INGAUGING THE IMPACT OF GEOGRAPHICALLY
BIASED DATA ON DISTRIBUTION MODELS
Barnes MA, Jerde CL, Wittmann ME et al. (2014) Geographic
selection bias of occurrence data influences transferabilityof invasive Hydrilla verticillata distribution models. Ecology
and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.1120.
Author countries: United States, China, Australia
Research funding: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Fish andWildlife Foundation; U.S. Forest Service; The Nature Conservancy

This study looks at an aquatic plant, Hydrillaverticillata, to assess how geospatial biases inoccurrence data influence species distribution
models. Native to central Asia and Australia, this‘formidable global invader’ now occurs across Central
and South America, Africa, Europe, New Zealand, andmost of temperate North America—a global reach thatenhances its usefulness for such a study.
Starting with 4,336 records of H. verticillata drawn
from GBIF.org and other sources (including morethan 1,000 identified within its native range), theauthors developed models that omitted native-range
data from different countries and from randomized
samples within the native range. While the results‘possessed strong predictive power’ for native andNorth American ranges, they also highlighted theimpact of spatial biases resulting from political gaps
in data. To improve future model predictions andtheir use in environmental management, the authors
encourage efforts to ‘focus on areas of conspicuous

To test the assumption that species distribution
models predict disproportionately smaller potential
ranges for non-natives than natives, researchers
compared the distributions of 13,575 native,
endemic, alien and invasive plants in the UnitedStates to determine how these groups’ different range
attributes might influence ecological forecasting.
Describing GBIF as “the only source that could
consistently provide distributional data for all of ourtarget species at a global scale”, the study concluded
that invasives had not achieved the expected degreeof range infilling, suggesting that “plants introduced
to the US still have plenty of space to invade”.

REDUCING INVASIVE SPECIES RISKS THROUGHRAPID WATCH LISTS
Faulkner KT, Robertson MP, Rouget M et al. (2014) A simple,
rapid methodology for developing invasive species watch
lists. Biological Conservation 179: 25-32. doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.08.014
Author country: South Africa
Research funding: South African National Department ofEnvironment Affairs; DST-NRF Centre for Invasion Biology

Developing biosecurity schemes that prevent the
introduction of potentially invasive alien species
can be excessively complicated and expensive formany resource-poor nations. These South African
researchers proposed a rapid, cost-effective
method of creating species watch lists based on
three consistent predictors of invasion success:past precedents, environmental suitability andintroduction effort. Using GBIF-mediated data on
419 invasive species in addition to other sources,
the authors demonstrate that this technique works
quickly and transparently to produce an initialassessment of key threats across taxa that applies
at different national and provincial scales without
substantial financial or scientific input.

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Higgins SI & Richardson DM (2014) Invasive plants havebroader physiological niches. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
111(29): 10610-10614. doi:10.1073/pnas.1406075111
Author countries: New Zealand, South Africa
Research funding: University of Otago; Dept of Science andTechnology - National Research Foundation

Seeking to learn from past invasions, the authors
investigating how physiological traits of a given plant
may indicate its inherent invasive potential. Theirhindcasting exercise draws from experience, taking
a pragmatic look at acacia and eucalypts, two treegroups whose 749 closely related species now occur
far beyond their native Australia.
By calibrating GBIF-mediated global data for bothgroups with physiological and environmental variables
like growth rate, respiration, temperature and andsoil nitrogen, the authors highlight a suite of traits
that determine invasive success, highlighting species
tolerant of a broader range of environmental contexts.
Notably, to test their model’s fitness, they tested it by
predicting an independent dataset comprised of all
GBIF records for acacia and eucalypt outside Australia.
The results correctly predicted 95% of eucalypt
records and 83% of acacia records.

MODEL GLOBALLY, REFINE REGIONALLY
Kelly R, Leach K, Cameron A et al. (2014) Combining global
climate and regional landscape models to improve predictionof invasion risk. Diversity and Distributions 20(8): 884-894.
doi:10.1111/ddi.12194
Author country: United Kingdom
Research funding: Natural Heritage Research Partnership(Northern Ireland Environment Agency & Queen’s University
Belfast)Global climate niche models are widely used to
predict the risks posed by invasive species due tochanging species distributions
and habitat suitability. But suchmodels may overlook the rolethat finer scale factors like landuse, topography and soil andwater chemistry play in invasion
biology—in part because of thelack of reliable global data for suchcharacteristics.

(eight already established in Ireland and seven otherhigh-risk species), the Belfast-based authors combine
and refine them with regional data on a variety ofhuman and physiochemical variables. This simple
method significantly improves predictions for regional
invasions and highlights the explicit importance offactors related to land use, nutrient concentration andnatural landscape.

PROFILING PROBLEMATIC PLANTS
Kuester A, Conner JK, Culley T et al. (2014) How weeds
emerge: a taxonomic and trait-based examination using
United States data. The New Phytologist 202(3): 1055-68.
doi:10.1111/nph.12698
Author country: United States
Research funding: National Science Foundation

One common comparative framework for the studyof invasive plants seeks to place introduced species
along a ‘continuum’ that ranges from naturalized
to weedy to invasive. Useful as this framework is,
however, it doesn’t account for the emerging andcostly problem of herbicide resistance. The authors
draw on GBIF and other data sources to look for broad
patterns in the United States across taxonomic,
physical and biochemical traits of what they call‘problematic plants’—the weedy, the invasive and theherbicide-resistant.
In addition to exploring over- and under-represented
families, they explore the potential of many
characteristics of the ‘ideal invader’. The investigationof one variable—the introduction time of invasive
weeds and ‘non-problematic’ introduced non-weeks—relies exclusively on GBIF-mediated occurrence
data for U.S. herbaria specimens. Their conclusions
identify plant genera and traits that warrant vigilance,
particularly among species introduced to agricultural
fields that reproduce abundantly and often—prime
candidates for herbicide resistance.

After producing global models
based on GBIF-mediated datafor 15 non-native aquatic plants

FAIRY MOSS (AZOLLA FILICULOIDES). CC BY-NC JOEL CARNAT HTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/GMI7BX

invasives

LEARNING THE TRAITS OF SUCCESSFUL INVADERS

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CONTROLLING A POTENTIAL PLAGUE OF ‘LOCUSTS’
Li G, Xu G, Guo K et al. (2014) Mapping the Global Potential
Geographical Distribution of Black Locust (Robinia
pseudoacacia L.) Using Herbarium Data and a Maximum
Entropy Model. Forests 5(11): 2773-2792. doi:10.3390/
f5112773
Author country: China
Research funding: National Nature Science Foundation ofChina, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Programof Higher Education, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation

A native of eastern North America, black locust(Robinia pseudoacacia) has been introduced widely
throughout the world over the past 300 years. And
while R. pseudoacacia has significant economic andecological value, that value comes with significant
risks given that the tree has become an uncontrollable
invader in parts of Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.

of chromosomes, and chromosome sets (or ploidy
level)—to test whether these variables could predictthe relative rarity or invasiveness of a set of 890
flowering plants from 62 genera widely distributed
from tropical to boreal regions.
GBIF-mediated data contributed to their conclusions thatinvasiveness is negatively related to genome size andpositively related to chromosome number and ploidy
level. The same data enabled a parallel investigationof the effect of latitude on such traits. While theseresults show a linear increase in genome size at higher
latitudes, latitude appears unimportant in explaining
differences in invasiveness or cytogenic traits.

ANTICIPATING CONFLICTS BETWEEN INVASIVE AND
IMPERILLED SPECIES
Rose JP & Todd BD (2014) Projecting Invasion Risk of NonNative Watersnakes (Nerodia fasciata and Nerodia sipedon)in the Western United States. PLoS ONE 9(6): e100277.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100277
Author country: United States

Two natives of the eastern United State­—thecommon watersnake (Nerodia fasciata) and Southernwatersnake (Nerodia sipedon)—have recently
established reproductive populations in western
North America. To calculate the risks these predatorspresent for the region’s many modified freshwater
systems, the authors modeled both snakes’ potential
distribution across western North America with theexplicit intention of evaluating prospective conflicts
with imperiled native species.
BLACK LOCUST (ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA), CC BY-SA 2015 HARUM.KOH
https://flic.kr/p/seQTyw

Relying primarily on 32,434 GBIF-mediated herbarium
records, researchers modeled the area that black
locust currently occupies and its potentially‘invadable distribution’ area. The results can help
guide natural resource decision makers in assessing
whether and where the appropriate response to R.
pseudoacacia is afforestation or invasive control.

SMALL-SCALE PREDICTORS OF GLOBALINVASIVENESS AND RARITY
Pandit MK, White SM & Pocock MJO (2014) The contrasting
effects of genome size, chromosome number and ploidy
level on plant invasiveness: a global analysis. The New
Phytologist 203(2): 697-703. doi:10.1111/nph.12799
Author countries: India, United Kingdom
Research funding: Natural Environment Research Council

Why do some plants become endangered whileothers become invasive? Researchers compared
genomic and cytogenic traits—genome size, number

Occurrence records from GBIF and other sources forthe two Nerodia species fed into distribution models
that highlighted the ranges they can be expected to
invade. The authors then compared these results withthe known ranges of native species—both potential
prey as well as predators currently occupying similar
ecological niches. Together the two invaders appear topose significant threats to several aquatic natives ofCalifornia, including federally and state listed snakes,
salamanders and frogs. In hope of helping authorities
responsible for protecting native species elsewhere
to develop responses, the authors detail their effort
to design a systematic, transferable model forevaluating similar invasions.

BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC EFFECTS ON SPECIESDISTRIBUTION
Silva DP, Gonzalez VH, Melo GAR et al. (2014) Seeking theflowers for the bees: Integrating biotic interactions into nichemodels to assess the distribution of the exotic bee species

9Research Council of Canada; Endeavour International;
University of Sydney; Australian Research Council; European
Social Fund and Portuguese Ministério da Educação eCiência; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico
e Tecnológico; Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia; Fundo
Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional

Lithurgus huberi is the sole representative of the
Old World genus of solitary bees in the Americas,
occurring mainly in Brazil and Argentina where it
is considered a widespread but locally rare exotic.
Having made new observations during recent
fieldwork, the authors sought to assess what effectthe distribution of host plant species might have on
this specialist bee. In addition to identifying otherworthwhile areas to survey, this approach could also
gauge the impact of biotic variables (rather thanabiotic ones, like climate) on the bee’s distribution.

Seeking to improve the accuracy of invasive species
forecasting, the authors use GBIF-mediated andother data to contrast two models for understanding
worldwide invasions of the cane toad (Rhinella
marina). The first physiological and mechanistic model
examines whether the toad’s traits adapted to its newenvironments (a fundamental niche shift). By contrast,
the second model considers the combined influenceof biotic and abiotic conditions (a realized niche shift),which highlighted the role of other species in limiting
the toad’s native population—constraints absent inAustralia with disastrous effect. Improved knowledgeof the dynamics at play in each type of niche shift may
improve invasion management strategies.

GBIF-mediated and other occurrence data fed models
for the seven host plants known to provide L. huberiwith pollen, which generated predictions for both thebee and its hosts that largely coincide. While theseresults may show how biotic and abiotic factors
already intersect and regulate the bee’s ecologicalniche, they also support the widely held theory thatclimate is the prime variable determining the broadscale species distribution.

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING INVASION MODELS
Tingley R, Vallinoto M, Sequeira F & Kearney MR (2014)
Realized niche shift during a global biological invasion.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of theUnited States of America 111(28): 10233-8. doi:10.1073/
pnas.1405766111
Author countries: Australia, Brazil, Portugal|
Research funding: Natural Sciences and Engineering

CANE TOAD (RHINELLA MARINUS) CC BY 2011, BRIAN GRATWICKE
https://flic.kr/p/ayvEys

bibliography
AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESBarnes MA, Jerde CL,
Wittmann ME et al.

Geographic selection bias ofoccurrence data influencestransferability of invasive Hydrillaverticillata distribution models

Ecology and Evolution

doi: 10.1002/
ece3.1120

United States,
China, Australia

Beaumont LJ, Gallagher
RV, Leishman MR et al.

How can knowledge of theclimate niche inform the weed
risk assessment process? A
case study of Chrysanthemoides
monilifera in Australia

Diversity andDistributions
20(6): 613-625

doi: 10.1111/
ddi.12190

Australia

Borges LMS, Sivrikaya
H & Cragg SMFirst records of the warm water
shipworm Teredo bartschi Clapp, 1923
(Bivalvia, Teredinidae) in Mersin,
southern Turkey and in Olhão, Portugal

Bioinvasion Records
3(1): 25-28

doi: 10.3391/
bir.2014.3.1.04

United Kingdom,
Germany, Turkey

Bradley BA, Early
R & Sorte CJBSpace to invade? Comparative
range infilling and potential range
of invasive and native plants

Global Ecology and
Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/
geb.12275

United States, United
Kingdom, Portugal, Spain,

invasives

Lithurgus huberi in South America. Ecological Modelling 273:
200-209. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.11.016
Author countries: Brazil, Argentina
Research funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Whitley Wildlife
Conservation Trustinvasives

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AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESCarlos-Júnior LA, Barbosa
NPU, Moulton TP et al.

Ecological Niche Model used to
examine the distribution of aninvasive, non-indigenous coral

Marine Environmental
Researchdoi: 10.1016/
j.marenvres.
2014.10.004

Brazil, United States

Cheek MDFirst official record of a naturalised
population of Mimosa albida Humb. &Bonpl. ex Willd. var. albida in Africa

BioInvasions Records 4

www.reabic.net/
journals/bir/2015/
Accepted/
BIR_2015_Cheek_correctedproof.pdf

South Africa

Crafton R

Modeling invasion risk forcoastal marine species
utilizing environmental andtransport vector data

Hydrobiologia

doi: 10.1007/
s10750-014-2027-x

United States

Diaz R, Manrique V,
Hibbard K et al.

Successful Biological Control of
Tropical Soda Apple (Solanales:
Solanaceae) in Florida: A Review
of Key Program Components

Florida Entomologist
97(1): 179-190

www.bioone.org/doi/
pdf/10.1896/
054.097.0124

United States, Argentina

DiTommaso A, Darbyshire
SJ, Marschner CA et al.

North-East, North-Central, MidAtlantic United States and Southern
Canada: Japanese Hedgeparsley(Torilis japonica)—A New Invasive
Species in the United States?

Invasive Plant Scienceand Management
7(4): 553-560

doi: 10.1614/
IPSM-D-14-00028.1

Canada, United States

Donaldson JE, Hui C,
Richardson DM et al.

Invasion trajectory of alien
trees: the role of introduction
pathway and planting history

Global Change Biology
20(5): 1527-37

doi: 10.1111/
gcb.12486

South Africa, Australia

Faulkner KT, Robertson
MP, Rouget M et al.

A simple, rapid methodology
for developing invasive
species watch lists

Biological Conservation
179: 25-32

doi: 10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.08.014

South Africa

Fuller P, Knott D,
Kingsley-Smith P et al.

Invasion of Asian tiger shrimp,
Penaeus monodon Fabricius,
1798, in the western northAtlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Aquatic Invasions
9(1): 59-70

doi: 10.3391/
ai.2014.9.1.05

United States

Gallardo B

Europe’s top 10 invasive species:
relative importance of climatic,
habitat and socio-economic factors

Ethology
Ecology & Evolution
26(2-3): 130-151

doi: 10.1080/
03949370.
2014.896417

United Kingdom

Gallardo B & Aldridge DC

Is Great Britain heading for a PontoCaspian invasional meltdown?

Journal of Applied
Ecologydoi: 10.1111/13652664.12348

United Kingdom, Spain

García-Díaz P, Ross
JV, Ayres C et al.

Understanding the biologicalinvasion risk posed by the global
wildlife trade: propagule pressure
drives the introduction andestablishment of Nearctic turtles

Global Change Biology

doi: 10.1111/
gcb.12790

Australia, Spain

Goldsmit J, Howland
K & Archambault P

Establishing a baseline for early
detection of non-indigenous species
in ports of the Canadian Arctic

Aquatic Invasions
9(3): 327-342

doi: 10.3391/
ai.2014.9.3.08

CanadaGonzález-Moreno P, Diez
JM, Richardson DM et al.

Beyond climate: disturbanceniche shifts in invasive species

Global Ecology and
Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/
geb.12271

Spain, United States,
Switzerland, South Africa

Higgins SI &Richardson DM

Invasive plants have broader
physiological niches

Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences of the UnitedStates of America
111(29): 10610-10614

doi: 10.1073/
pnas.1406075111

New Zealand, South Africa

Hill MP, Axford JK,& Hoffmann AA

Predicting the spread of Aedes
albopictus in Australia undercurrent and future climates:
Multiple approaches anddatasets to incorporate potential
evolutionary divergence

Austral Ecology
39(4): 469-478

doi: 10.1111/
aec.12105

Australia, South Africa

Horvitz N, Wang
R, Zhu M et al.

A simple modeling approach toelucidate the main transport
processes and predict invasive
spread: River-mediated invasion of
A geratina adenophora in China

Water Resources
Research
50(12): 9738-9747

doi: 10.1002/
2014WR015537

Israel, China

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TITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

A biography of an invasive terrestrial
slug: the spread, distribution andhabitat of Deroceras invadens

NeoBiota 23: 17-64

doi: 10.3897/
neobiota.23.7745

Germany, United States

Jacobs LEO, Richardson
DM & Wilson JRU

Melaleuca parvistaminea Byrnes(Myrtaceae) in South Africa: Invasion
risk and feasibility of eradication

South African
Journal of Botany
94: 24-32

doi: 10.1016/j.
sajb.2014.05.002

South Africa

Kalwij JM, Steyn
C & le Roux PC

Repeated monitoring as an effective
early detection means: first records
of naturalised Solidago gigantea Aiton(Asteraceae) in southern Africa

South African
Journal of Botany
93: 204-206

doi: 10.1016/j.
sajb.2014.04.013

South Africa, Czech Republic

Kelly R, Leach K,
Cameron A et al.

Combining global climate andregional landscape models toimprove prediction of invasion risk

Diversity andDistributions
20(8): 884-894

doi: 10.1111/
ddi.12194

United Kingdom

Kuester A, Conner
JK, Culley T et al.

How weeds emerge: a taxonomic
and trait-based examination
using United States data

The New Phytologist
202(3): 1055-68

doi: 10.1111/
nph.12698

United States

Lamoureaux SL& Bourdôt GW

The potential distribution ofyellow bristle grass (Setaria
pumila) in New Zealand

New Zealand Plant
Protection 67: 226-230

http://www.nzpps.
org/journal/67/
nzpp_672260.pdf

New Zealand

Lembrechts JJ,
Milbau A & Nijs I

Alien Roadside Species More
Easily Invade Alpine than
Lowland Plant Communities in a
Subarctic Mountain Ecosystem

PLoS ONE 9(2): e89664

doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0089664

Belgium, Sweden

Li G, Xu G, Guo K et al.

Mapping the Global Potential
Geographical Distribution of Black
Locust (Robinia pseudoacaciaL.) Using Herbarium Data anda Maximum Entropy Model

Forests
5(11): 2773-2792

doi: 10.3390/
f5112773

China

Li YM, Dlugosch KM& Enquist BJ

Novel spatial analysis methods
reveal scale-dependent spreadand infer limiting factors ofinvasion by Sahara mustard

Ecography

doi: 10.1111/
ecog.00722

United States

Liu X, Li X, Liu Z et al.

Congener diversity, topographic
heterogeneity and human-assisted
dispersal predict spread rates ofalien herpetofauna at a global scale

Ecology Letters
17(7): 821-9

doi: 10.1111/
ele.12286

China, Australia,
United States

Lübcker N, Zengeya
TA, Dabrowski J et al.

Predicting the potential
distribution of invasive silver
carp Hypophthalmichthys
molitrix in South Africa

African Journal of
Aquatic Science
39(2): 157-165

doi: 10.2989/
16085914.
2014.926856

South Africa

Novoa A, Le Roux
JJ, Robertson MP

Introduced and invasive cactus
species-a global review

AoB Plants

doi: 10.1093/
aobpla/plu078

South Africa

Orlova-Bienkowskaja
MJ & Volkovitsh MG

Range expansion of Agrilus
convexicollis in European Russia
expedited by the invasion of theemerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis(Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Biological Invasions

doi: 10.1007/
s10530-014-0762-6

RussiaPadalia H, Srivastava
V & Kushwaha SPS

Modeling potential invasion rangeof alien invasive species, Hyptis
suaveolens (L.) Poit. in India:
Comparison of MaxEnt and GARP

Ecological Informatics
22: 36-43

doi: 10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2014.04.002

India

Pandit MK, White
SM & Pocock MJO

The contrasting effects ofgenome size, chromosome
number and ploidy level on plantinvasiveness: a global analysis

The New Phytologist
203(2): 697-703

doi: 10.1111/
nph.12799

India, United Kingdom

Parsa S, Hazzi NA,
Chen Q et al.

Potential geographic distribution of
two invasive cassava green mites

Experimental &applied acarology
65(2): 195-204

doi: 10.1007/
s10493-014-9868-x

Colombia, China,
United States

Pearson RG

Asian common toads in Madagascar:
an urgent effort to inform surveys
and eradication efforts

Global Change Biology

doi: 10.1111/
gcb.12693

United Kingdom

invasives

AUTHORS
Hutchinson JMC, Reise
H, & Robinson DG

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Quinn A, Gallardo
B & Aldridge DC

Quantifying the ecological niche
overlap between two interacting
invasive species: the zebra mussel(Dreissena polymorpha) andthe quagga mussel (Dreissena
rostriformis bugensis).

Aquatic Conservation:
Marine and Freshwater
Ecosystems
24(3): 324-337

doi:10.1002/aqc.2414

United Kingdom

Qvenild M, Setten
G & Skår M

Politicising plants: Dwellingand invasive alien species indomestic gardens in Norway

Norsk Geografisk
Tidsskrift - Norwegian
Journal of Geography
68(1): 22–33

doi:10.1080/00291
951.2013.870599

NorwayRay JC, Johnson WP,
Ray JD & Kazmaier RT

Notes on Lythrum salicaria L. in
Texas and on its distribution on Palo
Duro Creek, Randall County, Texas

Phytologia, 96(4),225–234.

www.phytologia.org/
uploads/2/3/4/2/
23422706/964225234johnson_
et_al_lythrum_
salicaria_6-18.pdf

United States

Raybaud V, BeaugrandG, Dewarumez J-M& Luczak C

Climate-induced range shiftsof the American jackknife clam
Ensis directus in Europe

Biological Invasions
17(2): 725-741

doi:10.1007/s10530014-0764-4

FranceRose JP & Todd BD

Projecting Invasion Risk of NonNative Watersnakes (Nerodia
fasciata and Nerodia sipedon)in the Western United States

PLoS ONE 9(6): e100277

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0100277

United States

Schmitz U, Köhler
S & Hussner A

First records of American Wolffia
columbiana in Europe – Clandestine
replacement of native Wolffia arrhiza?

BioInvasions Records
3 (4): 213-216

http://www.reabic.
net/journals/
bir/2014/Issue4.aspx

Germany

Setyawan AD

A new record of naturalized
Selaginella uncinata (Desv.) Spring(Selaginellaceae) from Java, Indonesia

Biodiversitas
15(2): 261-268

doi:10.13057/
biodiv/d150221

Indonesia

Shabani F, Kumar
L & Esmaeili A

Future distributions of Fusarium
oxysporum f. spp. in European, Middle
Eastern and North African agricultural
regions under climate change

Agriculture, Ecosystems& Environment
197: 96-105

doi:10.1016/j.
agee.2014.08.005

Australia, Iran

Silva DP, Gonzalez
VH, Melo GAR et al.

Seeking the flowers for the bees:
Integrating biotic interactions
into niche models to assess the
distribution of the exotic bee species
Lithurgus huberi in South America

Ecological Modelling273: 200-209

doi:10.1016/
j.ecolmodel.
2013.11.016

Brazil, Argentina

Speziale KL, Lambertucci
SA & Ezcurra C

Bromus tectorum invasion in SouthAmerica: Patagonia under threat?

Weed Research
54(1): 70-77

doi:10.1111/
wre.12047

Argentina

Stiels D, Gaißer B,
Schidelko K et al.

Niche shift in four non-native
estrildid finches and implications
for species distribution models

Ibis 157(1): 75-90

doi:10.1111/ibi.12194

Germany

Strubbe D, Beauchard
O & Matthysen E

Niche conservatism among
non-native vertebrates in
Europe and North America

Ecography 38(3): 321-329

doi:10.1111/
ecog.00632

Belgium, Netherlands

Szyniszewska AM& Tatem AJ

Global Assessment of Seasonal
Potential Distribution ofMediterranean Fruit Fly, Ceratitis
capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)

PLoS ONE 9(11): e111582

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0111582

United States

Taylor S & Kumar L

Climate Change and Weed Impacts
on Small Island Ecosystems:
Lantana camara L. (Magnoliopsida:
Verbenaceae) Distribution in Fiji

Pacific Science68(1): 117-133

doi:10.2984/68.1.11

Australia

Taylor S & Kumar L

Impacts of climate change on
invasive Lantana camara L.
distribution in South Africa

African Journal ofEnvironmental Scienceand Technology
8(6): 391-400

doi:10.5897/
AJEST2014.1705

Australia

Tererai F & Wood AR

On the present and potential
distribution of Ageratina adenophora(Asteraceae) in South Africa

South African Journalof Botany 95: 152-158

doi:10.1016/j.
sajb.2014.09.001

South Africa

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESRealized niche shift during a
global biological invasion

Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences of the UnitedStates of America
111(28): 10233-8.

doi:10.1073/
pnas.1405766111

Australia, Brazil, Portugal

Van Hengstum T,
Hooftman DAP,
Oostermeijer JGB &van Tienderen PH

Impact of plant invasions on
local arthropod communities:
a meta-analysis

Journal of Ecology
102(1): 4-11

doi:10.1111/13652745.12176

Netherlands, United
Kingdom

Villar JL, Juan A& Alonso MÁ

Tamarix hohenackeri bunge, a newrecord for the flora of Mexico

Acta Bontanica Mexicana
106: 117–128

http://www1.
inecol.edu.mx/
abm/verhtml/106/
Acta106(117128).html

Spain

Weyl P & Coetzee J

The invasion status of Myriophyllum
spicatum L. in southern Africa

Management of BiologicalInvasions 5(1): 31-37

doi:10.3391/
mbi.2014.5.1.03

South Africa

Wittmann ME, Jerde
CL, Howeth JG et al.

Grass carp in the Great Lakes
region: establishment potential,
expert perceptions, and reevaluation of experimental
evidence of ecological impact

Canadian Journal of
Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences 71(7): 992-999

doi:10.1139/
cjfas-2013-0537

United States

Xu Z

Potential distribution of invasive
alien species in the upper Ili
river basin: determinationand mechanism of bioclimatic
variables under climate change

Environmental Earth
Sciences 73(2): 779-786

doi:10.1007/s12665014-3083-2

China

Impacts of climate change
examplesCOMPARING CLIMATE MODELING METHODSElmendorf SC, Henry GHR, Hollister RD et al. (2014)
Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used toinfer climate change effects on plant communities yieldconsistent patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America 112(2).
doi:10.1073/pnas.1410088112
Author countries: United States, Canada, Faroe Islands,
Norway, Iceland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Research funding: National Science Foundation; U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service; Icelandic Research Fund;
Icelandic Centre for Research and Ministry of Agriculture;
Research Council of Norway; Swedish Research Council for
Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning;
International Polar Year Program of Canada; ArcticNet; Parks
Canada; Northern Scientific Training Program; National
Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada; U.S.
Forest Service; International Institute of Tropical Forestry;
University of Puerto Rico.

The three typical approaches for forecastingclimate change impacts each have largely wellrecognized constraints. But few previous studies
have analysed the results produced by each of thethree (experiments, monitoring observations, andso-called ‘space-for-time’ substitutions). Applying
GBIF-mediated data to determine a baseline thermal

niche for the species that comprise 85 arctic andalpine plant communities in North America andEurope, this international team systematicallycompared the results achieved through each method.
The researchers’ evaluation showed consistency indescribing overall trends and directions of change, but
a notable tendency of inferences based on presentday patterns of ecological systems to overestimate
them—suggesting that experimental warming andlong-term monitoring may provide the most accuratemeans of predicting impacts.

HIGH LATITUDES ≠ LOW RISK
Gerick AA, Munshaw RG, Palen WJ et al. (2014) Thermal
physiology and species distribution models reveal
climate vulnerability of temperate amphibians. Journal of
Biogeography 41(4): 713-723. doi:10.1111/jbi.12261
Author countries: Canada, United States
Research funding: Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada; Canada Research Chairs Program

One prevailing hypothesis has been that cold-blooded
creatures inhabiting higher latitudes may be lessvulnerable to climate change impacts than those in
the tropics thanks to their greater thermal safetymargin (TSM), or inherent tolerance of temperatureclimate change

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14changes. But by closely examining the effects of risingtemperatures on both the physiology and distributionof three northern North American frogs—Speaintermontana, Rana aurora and Pseudacris regilla—theauthors challenge both that notion and the analyticalmethods previously used to justify it.

by the geographically isolated Iberian peninsula’s
geographic isolation, the authors relied on GBIFmediated data for 3,267 peninsular plant species to
identify vulnerable species and habitats and to assess
whether the existing network of protected areas (PAs)will effectively protect floristic diversity up to 2020.
Their results comprise several important findings.
First, they suggest that existing PAs appear capableof preserving all but about 100 species with distinctly
northerly ranges, though only in the short term: ‘thelong-term outlook for Iberian plant diversity is bleak’.
In addition, contrary to consensus, shifting species
ranges are not uniformly poleward and upward, as
local climate, topography and the extreme pressures
on northern species contribute to clear westerly andeasterly trends.

PROTECTING THE IRREPLACEABLE SPECIES OF
THE TROPICAL ANDES

PACIFIC CHORUS FROG (PSEUDACRIS REGILLA). © 2013 STEVEN JOHNSON

Their analysis underscores the issue that the useof longer-term average temperatures rather thanextreme temperatures may underestimate theimpact of future climates on temperature-dependent
breeders such as amphibians. In addition, theirprojected distribution models, which draw upon
GBIF-mediated and other data, suggest that rapid
temperature changes will quickly erode these species’
TSMs, meaning that even when exposure is not lethal
in itself, it may translate into lower individual survival
rates due to predation—all of which highlights cause
for concern that all three of the study’s focal species
will be at greater risk by 2050.

NEAR-TERM FORECASTS FOR IBERIAN FLORA
Heap MJ, Culham A, Lenoir J et al. (2014) Can the Iberian
Floristic Diversity Withstand Near-Future Climate Change?
Open Journal of Ecology 04(17): 1089-1101. doi:10.4236/
oje.2014.417089
Author countries: United Kingdom, France, Spain

End-of-century predictions about climate-related
impacts on species remain subject to long-term
uncertainties regarding both the data and emissions
scenarios, but land managers and policymakers must
make short-term decisions now. Recognizing the highproportion of Europe’s plant diversity represented

Ramirez-Villegas J, Cuesta F, Devenish C et al. (2014). Using
species distributions models for designing conservation
strategies of Tropical Andean biodiversity under climatechange. Journal for Nature Conservation 22(5): 391–404.
doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2014.03.007
Author country: Colombia, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Peru,
CanadaResearch funding: Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development; The Mountain Partnership and the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; CGIARThe Tropical Andes hosts a great diversity of
species, many of which occur nowhere else on
Earth. But resource overexploitation, expanding
human populations and future climate change posea particularly acute combination of threats for theregion’s many narrowly distributed endemic species.
Here researchers used GBIF-derived data originallyapplied in Warren et al. (2013) (http://dx.doi.
org/10.1038/nclimate1887) to create ecological nichemodels for 1,555 birds and 9,457 vascular plants inhope of gaining a comprehensive estimate of potential
climate change impacts. While the resulting patterns
vary significantly based on different time scales
and dispersal scenarios, the anticipated changes
remain ‘extremely severe’, with extinction risks
likely intensifying more among plants than birds. The
authors highlight the expected influence of changing
land uses—and their absence from this study—inproposing a regional conservation approach that
focuses on landscape-scale conditions, networks anddevelopment strategies.

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CLIMATE CHANGE OR HABITAT LOSS: WHAT’SWORSE?
Riordan EC & Rundel PW (2014) Land Use Compounds
Habitat Losses under Projected Climate Change in a
Threatened California Ecosystem. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86487.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086487
Author country: United States
Research funding: University of California Los Angeles
Foundation

Climate change presents a second formidable
threat to species diversity in regions already underintense development pressure from growing humancommunities. Here the authors examine projected
impacts of both on 20 key constituent species ofCalifornia sage scrub, a diverse plant association
containing many endemic and imperiled species. Itsnative range spreads across of southwestern andcentral western California, where land-use changes
around the dense population centres have already
reduced these unique coastal scrublands to as little as
10% of their original extent.
Using GBIF-mediated and herbaria data to createmodels linked to scenario-based assessments offuture climate change and land use, the results
suggest that projected impacts from habitat loss
could be as large if not larger on species richness
patterns for coastal sage scrub than those fromclimate change. The potential for these distinct driversof change to compound one another’s negative effects
underscores how important it is for conservation
planners and resource managers to address both.

LARGE MAMMAL EXTINCTIONS: WHO (NOT WHAT)DONE IT
Sandom C, Faurby S, Sandel B & Svenning J (2014)
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked tohumans, not climate change. Proceedings of the Royal
Society/Biological Sciences 281(1787). doi:10.1098/
rspb.2013.3254
Author country: Denmark
Research funding: 15 Juni Fonden; European Research Council

Dozens of large mammals have vanished from eachcontinent over the past 130,000 years, but the causesof these unprecedentedly rapid and widespreaddisappearances have remained enigmatic, withclimate change and expanding human populations
seen as the leading suspects. Drawing in part on GBIFmediated occurrences for 177 extinct or continentally
extirpated mammals, the authors weigh the evidence
in what they call ‘the first comprehensive, specieslevel, fine-grained global macroecological analysis’ ofthese large-scale Quartenary extinctions.

PURPLE SAGE (SALVIA LEUCOPHYLLA) IS ONE OF 20 CONSTITUENTS
COASTAL SAGE SCRUB SPECIES FACING LONG-TERM IMPACTS FROM BOTH
CHANGING CLIMATES AND LAND USES. CC BY-NC 2003 ANITA GOULDHTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/RHPN

By combining and comparing models of
glacial and interglacial climate change and thepalaeobiogeographical spread of modern andextinct humans and immediate ancestors, the study
evaluates their relative impacts on species-level
extinctions across each region. With uniformly highspecies losses occurring where Homo sapiens was thefirst hominin to appear, the results signal the strong
hand that modern humans likely had in the loss ofother large mammals.

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LONG-TERM, ON-THE-GROUND TESTING OF
CLIMATE-SHIFT PREDICTIONS
Savage J & Vellend M (2014) Elevational shifts, biotic
homogenization and time lags in vegetation change during 40
years of climate warming. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.01131
Author country: Canada
Research funding: Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada

Are plant distribution shifts towards higher elevations
climate-driven? To test the impacts on plantcommunities, the authors repeated an earlier surveyof semi-permanent vegetation plots in a montane
protected area in southern Québec and overlaid
GBIF-mediated occurrence records in eastern North
America. Major elements of the climatic predictions—elevational distribution shifts, biodiversity change,
and biotic homogenization—appear consistent withobservations over four decades, though the relatively
slow rate of change suggests that species may
respond more slowly than expected.

HINDCASTING A MALLORCAN EXTINCTION WITH
FOSSILIZED GOAT SCAT
Welker F, Duijm E, van der Gaag KJ et al. (2014) Analysis
of coprolites from the extinct mountain goat Myotragus
balearicus. Quaternary Research 81(1): 106-116.
doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2013.10.006
Author country: Netherlands, Spain
Research funding: Netherlands Research Council

Four to five millennia ago, Myotragus balearicus, adwarf mountain goat inhabiting the Mediterranean
island of Mallorca, winked out of existence. Given thathumans arrived on the island at roughly the sametime, the prevailing hypotheses was that this small,slow-moving endemic suffered the same fate as larger
mammals elsewhere, where extinction followed soonafter the human colonization.
In this study, however, the authors arrive at a subtler,
more complicated conclusion, analysing ancient
DNA, pollen and macrofossils and reconstructedclimate models that use GBIF- and Naturalis-mediatedspecimen data for Buxus balearica, a once-plentiful,
now-rare box species. Fossilized droppings from M.
balearicus suggest it depended at least seasonally on
this plant, which previously dominated the island’s‘old’ vegetation until declining precipitation caused its
retreat to small mountain populations. While contact
and conflict with humans cannot be ruled out, the lackof archaeological evidence suggests that the rapid
vegetation change may have contributed to if notcaused the disappearance of the tiny Mallorcan goat.

FEMALE DIANA FRITTILARY (SPEYERIA DIANA), OUACHITA NATIONAL
FOREST, OKLAHOMA, USA. CC BY-NC 2015 GREG LASLEY
HTTP://INATURALIST.ORG/OBSERVATIONS/1651875

CLIMATE DRIVES LIFE HISTORY CHANGES IN
BUTTERFLY’S DECLINE
Wells CN & Tonkyn DW (2014) Range collapse in the Diana
fritillary, Speyeria diana (Nymphalidae). Insect Conservation
and Diversity 7(4): 365-380. doi:10.1111/icad.12059
Author country: United States
Research funding: Clemson University; Sarah Bradley
Tyson Memorial Fellowship; Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation;
American Museum of Natural History

The Diana fritillary (Speyeria diana) is a large,
spectacular North American butterfly that has become
increasingly rare across its historic range. In this first
paper to study the shifting distribution of a butterfly
from the southeastern United States, the authors findthat the Diana fritillary has vanished from the Atlantic
coastal plain—where Dutch explorer Pieter Cramer
first described it in 1777—persisting only in two
disjunct populations in the Southern Appalachians andthe highlands of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
This analysis, which relies on an exhaustive
compilation of records that includes GBIF-mediateddata, indicates the species’ ongoing shift to higher
elevations and earlier female flight times—both
results aligned with the predicted effects of climatechange. Explanations for the Diana fritillary’s collapse
across its lowland ranges, however, are less clear,
possibly including many factors such as the loss ofsouthern forestlands, increased deer browsing of theunderstory or altered fire regimes.

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Bystriakova N, Ansell
SW, Russell SJ et al.

Present, past and future of theEuropean rock fern Asplenium
fontanum: combining distribution
modelling and population
genetics to study the effect ofclimate change on geographic
range and genetic diversity

Annals of Botany113(3): 453:465

doi: 10.1093/
aob/mct274

China, United Kingdom

Cabrelli AL, Stow
AJ & Hughes L

A framework for assessing
the vulnerability of species toclimate change: a case study of
the Australian elapid snakes

Biodiversity andConservation 23(12):3019-3034

doi: 10.1007/s10531014-0760-0

Australia

Casazza G, Giordani
P, Benesperi R et al.

Climate change hastens the urgencyof conservation for range-restricted
plant species in the centralnorthern Mediterranean region

Biological Conservation
179: 129-138

doi: 10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.09.015

Italy

Castellanos-Frías
E, García de León D,
Pujadas-Salva A et al.

Potential distribution of Avena sterilis
L. in Europe under climate change

Annals of Applied
Biology 165(1): 53-61

doi: 10.1111/
aab.12117

Chile, Spain

Early R & Sax DF

Climatic niche shifts between species'
native and naturalized ranges raise
concern for ecological forecasts
during invasions and climate change

Global Ecology and
Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/
geb.12208

United Kingdom,
Portugal, Spain, USA

Elmendorf SC, Henry
GHR, Hollister RD et al.

Experiment, monitoring, and gradientmethods used to infer climatechange effects on plant communities
yield consistent patterns

Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences of the UnitedStates of America
112(2): 448-452

doi: 10.1073/
pnas.1410088112

United States, Canada,
Faroe Islands, Norway,
Iceland, Sweden, United
Kingdom, Switzerland

Gerick AA, Munshaw
RG, Palen WJ et al.

Thermal physiology and species
distribution models reveal climate
vulnerability of temperate amphibians

Journal of Biogeography
41(4): 713-723

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12261

Canada, United States,

Gil-Díaz T, Haroun
R, Tuya F et al.

Effects of Ocean Acidificationon the Brown Alga Padinapavonica: Decalcification Dueto Acute and Chronic Events

PLoS ONE 9(9): e108630

doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0108630

Spain

Harsch MA &HilleRisLambers J

Species distributions shift downward
across western North America

Global Change Biology

doi: 10.1111/
gcb.12697

United States

Hattab T, Albouy C,
Lasram FBR et al.

Towards a better understanding ofpotential impacts of climate change
on marine species distribution: amultiscale modelling approach

Global Ecology
and Biogeography23(12): 1417-1429

doi: 10.1111/
geb.12217

France, Tunisia, Canada

Heap MJ, Culham
A, Lenoir J et al.

Can the Iberian Floristic
Diversity Withstand NearFuture Climate Change?

Open Journal of Ecology
04(17): 1089-1101

doi: 10.4236/
oje.2014.417089

United Kingdom,France, Spain

Ikeda DH, Grady KC,
Shuster SM et al.

Incorporating Climate Change andExotic Species into Forecasts of
Riparian Forest Distribution

PLoS ONE 9(9): e107037

doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0107037

United States

Leidenberger S,
De Giovanni R,
Kulawik R et al.

Mapping present and future potential
distribution patterns for a mesograzer guild in the Baltic Sea

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12395

Sweden, Brazil, Germany,
United Kingdom

Meyer ALS Pie MR& Passos FC

Assessing the exposure of lion
tamarins (Leontopithecus spp.)
to future climate change

American Journalof Primatology
76(6): 551-62

doi: 10.1002/
ajp.22247

BrazilPinkernell S & Beszteri B

Potential effects of climate changeon the distribution range of the main
silicate sinker of the Southern Ocean

Ecology and Evolution
4(16): 3147-3161

doi:10.1002/
ece3.1138

Germany

Pole M

The Miocene climate in New Zealand:
Estimates from paleobotanical data.

Palaeontologia
Electronica 17(2)http://palaeoelectronica.org/
content/pdfs/436.pdf

Australia

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Ramirez-Villegas J,
Cuesta F, Devenish C et al.

Using species distributions
models for designing conservation
strategies of Tropical Andean
biodiversity under climate change

Journal for Nature
Conservation
22(5):391-404

doi:10.1016/j.
jnc.2014.03.007

Colombia, United Kingdom,
Ecuador, Peru, Canada

Riordan EC & Rundel PWLand Use Compounds Habitat Losses
under Projected Climate Change in a
Threatened California Ecosystem

PLoS ONE 9(1): e86487

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0086487

United States

Sánchez-Guillén RA,
Muñoz J, Hafernik J et al.

Hybridization rate and climate change:
are endangered species at risk?

Journal of Insect
Conservation
18(3): 295-305

doi:10.1007/s10841014-9637-5

Mexico, Spain, Ecuador,
United States

Sandom C, Faurby S,
Sandel B & Svenning J

Global late Quaternary megafauna
extinctions linked to humans,
not climate change

Proceedings of theRoyal Society/Biological
Sciences 281(1787)

doi:10.1098/
rspb.2013.3254

Denmark

Savage J & Vellend M

Elevational shifts, biotic
homogenization and time lagsin vegetation change during 40
years of climate warming

Ecography

doi:10.1111/
ecog.01131

CanadaSchmitt T, Habel JC,
Rödder D & Louy D

Effects of recent and past climatic
shifts on the genetic structure of thehigh mountain yellow-spotted ringlet
butterfly Erebia manto (Lepidoptera,
Satyrinae): a conservation problem

Global Change Biology
20(7): 2045-61

doi:10.1111/
gcb.12462

Germany

Shabani F, Kumar
L & Taylor S

Projecting date palm distribution
in Iran under climate change using
topography, physicochemicalsoil properties, soil taxonomy,
land use, and climate data

Theoretical andApplied Climatology
118(3): 553-567

doi:10.1007/s00704013-1064-0

Australia

Steadman DW &Franklin J

Changes in a West Indian bird
community since the late Pleistocene

Journal of Biogeography
42(3): 426-438

doi:10.1111/jbi.12418

United States

Sutkowska A,
Pasierbiński A,
Warzecha T & Mitka J

Multiple cryptic refugia of forest
grass Bromus benekenii in Europe
as revealed by ISSR fingerprinting
and species distribution modelling

Plant Systematics
and Evolution 300(6):1437-1452

doi:10.1007/s00606013-0972-x

PolandTarroso P, Carrión J,
Dorado-Valiño M et al.

Spatial climate dynamics in the
Iberian Peninsula since 15 000 Yr BP

Climate of the Past
Discussions 10(5):3901-3930

doi:10.5194/cpd10-3901-2014

Portugal, United States

Valle M, Chust G, delCampo A et al.

Projecting future distribution of
the seagrass Zostera noltii underglobal warming and sea level rise

Biological Conservation
170: 74-85

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2013.12.017

Spain, Denmark

Vilaça ST, Biosa D,
Zachos F et al.

Mitochondrial phylogeography of
the European wild boar: the effectof climate on genetic diversity andspatial lineage sorting across Europe

Journal of Biogeography
41(5): 987-998

doi:10.1111/jbi.12268

Italy, Austria, Germany,
Portugal, United States,
Slovakia, Spain, Greece,
Poland, Belarus,
Croatia, Luxembourg

Watling JI, Fletcher RJ,
Speroterra C et al.

Assessing Effects of Variationin Global Climate Data Setson Spatial Predictions from
Climate Envelope Models

Journal of Fish andWildlife Management5(1): 14-25

doi:10.3996/072012JFWM-056

United States

Welker F, Duijm E, vander Gaag KJ et al.

Analysis of coprolites from the extinct
mountain goat Myotragus balearicus

Quaternary Research81(1): 106-116

doi:10.1016/j.
yqres.2013.10.006

Netherlands, Spain

Wells CN & Tonkyn DWRange collapse in the Diana fritillary,
Speyeria diana (Nymphalidae)

Insect Conservation andDiversity 7(4): 365-380

doi:10.1111/
icad.12059

United States

Zeng C, Gomez-Mestre
I & Wiens JJ

Evolution of rapid developmentin spadefoot toads is unrelated
to arid environments

PLoS ONE 9(5): e96637

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0096637

Germany, Spain,
United States

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examplesspecies conservation

VOLUNTEER DIVERS MONITOR RED SEA REEF LIFE
Branchini S, Pensa F, Neri P et al. (2014) Using a citizen
science program to monitor coral reef biodiversity throughspace and time. Biodiversity and Conservation 24(2): 319336. doi:10.1007/s10531-014-0810-7
Author country: Italy
Research funding: Italian Ministry of Education, University
and Research; Ministry of Tourism of the Arab Republic of
Egypt; Egyptian Tourist Authority; Association of Italian Tour
Operators; Settemari; Scuba Nitrox Safety International;
Scuba School International; TuttoTurismo; Neos; Underwater
Life Project; Project Aware Foundation; Viaggio nel Blu
and Holiday Service diving services; Italian Ministry of theEnvironment and Land and Sea Protection

Threats to the world’s coral reefs put the wellsprings ofmarine diversity and important ecosystem services
at risk. Emerging research projects like SCUBA Tourism
for the Environment (STE) have increasingly relied
upon the passion of volunteer divers to monitor
reef life. Divers collected observations of 72 Red
Sea animals over four years, tested a recreational
survey protocol while STE relied on GBIF-mediatedoccurrences to assess relative rarity.
The resulting data showed no significant changes
in the health or biodiversity status of reefs in the
Northern Red Sea but revealed trends based on
different protection strategies. In addition, analysisof the divers’ sightings showed that casual nonspecialists performed transects as accurately as
conservation volunteers, suggesting that suchmonitoring programmes could make cost-effective
and reliable contributions to the Egyptian Ministry of
Tourism’s environmental management policies.

SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES FOR ADDRESSING GAPSIN PERU’S PROTECTED AREA NETWORK
Fajardo J, Lessman J, Bonaccorso E et al. (2014) Combined
use of systematic conservation planning, species
distribution modelling, and connectivity analysis reveals
severe conservation gaps in a megadiverse country(Peru). PLoS ONE 9(12): e114367. doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0114367
Author countries: Spain, Ecuador, United States, United
Kingdom, Peru
Research funding: Santander Universidades; Ministryof Economy and Competitiveness of Spain; Universidad
Tecnológica Indoamérica

TWO DIVERS PASSING AT HALAHI REEF, RED SEA, EGYPT. CC BY 2011 DEREKKEATS HTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/ALCBXDTwentieth-century conservation relied on opportunity,
aesthetics and politics to select protected areas(PAs), but advances in GIS and decision-support tools
have changed today’s equation for the better. The
timing is opportune, with threats mounting in many of
the world’s most biologically diverse countries.
In this study researchers first examine how well Peru’sPAs currently serve the country’s megadiversity,
finding it focused primarily on conserving sites in the
Amazon. A systematic analysis then probes how best
to extend and prioritize a complementary networkthat is more representative, efficient and connected.
After applying site-selection algorithms to distribution
models for 2,869 Peruvian animals and plants (which
rely in part on GBIF-mediated data), the team soughtto achieve maximum connectivity while addressing
severe gaps in conserving key areas of the Peruvian
Andes and Pacific coast.

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TESTING THE ACCURACY OF RANGE MAPS FROMTHE GLOBAL AMPHIBIAN ASSESSMENT
Ficetola GF, Rondinini C, Bonardi A et al. (2014) Habitat
availability for amphibians and extinction threat: a
global analysis. Diversity and Distributions 21: 302–311.
doi:10.1111/ddi.12296
Author countries: Italy, France
Research funding: University of Milano-Bicocca

The range maps produced for IUCN’s landmark
2004 Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) are
now themselves milestones, providing the only
authoritative, global-scale source of distribution
information on this unique class of vertebrates. Given
their increasingly wide use not just in conservation
but also in biogeographic, ecological and evolutionary
studies, the authors sought to evaluate and quantify
the maps’ levels of error and accuracy, particularly at
the presumptive edges of species ranges.
The research compares the GAA maps with those
produced solely by GBIF-mediated records for 4,507
amphibian species as well as a closely curated
collection of more recent observation (also suppliedwith data via GBIF). This paired analysis demonstrates
the relative accuracy of the GAA ranges even as it
highlights continental-scale sampling biases and theneed for greater investment and data mobilization inboth South America and tropical Asia.

CREATING CONSISTENT, TRANSPARENT BASELINEDATA FOR THE RED PANDA
Kandel K, Huettmann F, Suwal MK et al. (2014) Rapid
multi-nation distribution assessment of a charismaticconservation species using open access ensemble model
GIS predictions: Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in the HinduKush Himalaya region. Biological Conservation 181: 150161. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2014.10.007
Author countries: Nepal, United States, United Kingdom
Research funding: Nagao Natural Environment Foundation,
Japan; Oregon Zoo Foundation; Rufford Small Grants
Foundation; People’s Trust for Endangered Species; Chester
Zoo; Idea Wild

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a rare tree-dwelling
mammal native to remote portions of the Hindu
Kush-Himalaya (HKH). Inhabiting mountainous, often
inaccessible forests with dense bamboo understories
has made this charismatic but elusive creatureeven more difficult to study. IUCN lists A. fulgens as‘vulnerable’ due to expected declines in a population
already estimated to be small, but data are relatively
sparse—which adds to the value of the authors’collecting (and publishing through GBIF.org) a new

RED PANDA (AILURUS FULGENS) NEAR DOBATE, NEPAL. CC BY-NC-ND 2014
MICHAEL BAMFORD HTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/Q62S5G

dataset that contains 1,120 observations, primarily
from feces deposited at feeding sites in Nepal.
Their species distribution model seeks to predict
areas most likely to host red panda, establishingbaseline knowledge for science-based species
and habitat management in the HKH. Open-accessprovisions for both the dataset and the model
encourage their broader use in future research andassessment.

ASSESSING SPECIES RICHNESS TO CONSERVEBIODIVERSITY IN GUYANA
McPherson TY (2014) Landscape scale species distribution
modeling across the Guiana Shield to inform conservation
decision making in Guyana. Biodiversity and Conservation
23(8): 1931-1948. doi:10.1007/s10531-014-0696-4
Author country: United States

Guyana faces conservation challenges common
to countries of the Southern tropics—inadequate
and scattered biodiversity data, limited in-country
expertise and funding, and growing interest in
possible financial rewards of resource development
and extraction. And yet, like the rest of the countries
on the 2.6 billion-year-old Guyana Shield, even thesparse scientific information available highlights its
biological richness.
Gathering specimen data from the world’s natural
history museums and herbaria (with GBIF as one
source), the author first modeled species richness forseven taxon-based groups at a landscape scale. In
hope of contributing to the development of a national
protected areas network, the maps applied threeconservation scenarios, two of which accommodate
and account for the interests of Guyana’s indigenous
peoples, whose traditional knowledge of biodiversity
represent a largely untapped source.

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IMPROVED SOURCING OF SPECIES INFORMATION
NEEDED IN SPAIN’S BIOSPHERE RESERVESUNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) have a mandate
to act as sites for learning about best practices andexchanges of information that improve links between
biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic
development. To test their efficacy in that project,
the authors review three key sources of species
information on threatened and non-threatenedvertebrates in 34 of Spain’s 45 BRs, which comprisethe second largest national portfolio in the world.
The results of their analysis are surprisingly partial.
Management documents, GBIF-mediated data, andnational atlases and red books produced different
species lists for each Reserve, with just 75.9% of the
566 species named across the combined sources
appearing in all three. Most worryingly, threatened
freshwater fishes and amphibians are the most poorly
represented groups in the BRs’ own management
documents, suggesting that the use of multiple
sources (including GBIF) may improve the scientificbasis of species management within the Reserves.

CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT OF ANGOLA’S
TIMBER TREES
Romeiras MM, Figueira R, Duarte MC et al. Documenting
biogeographical patterns of African timber species using
herbarium records: a conservation perspective basedon native trees from Angola. PLoS ONE 9(7): e103403.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103403
Author countries: Portugal, United Kingdom
Research funding: Portuguese Foundation for Science &Technology

The increasing globalization of the timber trade
has inevitably led to increased pressure on sometree species. But as in other tropical countries, thedearth of baseline scientific data about commerciallyvaluable timber species in Angola could risks rapid
overexploitation that no ban, restriction or sustainable
harvesting scheme can fix.
Recent field surveys in the vast, largely governmentowned forests of southern Africa’s largest country
have not closed the 40-year gap in botanical data
PASSENGER PIGEON (ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS, FORMERLY COLUMBAMIGRATORIA), PLATE 62, FROM JOHN JAMES AUDUBON’S BIRDS OF AMERICA(1827)A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE DISAPPEARANCEOF THE PASSENGER PIGEON
Stanton JC. Present-day risk assessment would havepredicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes
migratorius). Biological Conservation 180: 11-20.
doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2014.09.023
Author country: United States

The astonishment expressed by so experienced
an observer as John James Audubon as hedescribed a flock of passenger pigeons darkening
the Kentucky sky for three days in 1813 finds its
tragic counterbalance in the seemingly inexplicable
extinction of Ectopistes migratorius 101 years later.
How did the most abundant bird in North America
disappear so quickly? And what—if anything—could
we have done differently?
Here, the author marks the centenary of the last
bird’s demise with a comprehensive reconstructionof its rapid decline and loss as well as a retrospective
IUCN Red List assessment. GBIF-mediated specimen
records contribute to the breeding habitat portion ofa highly detailed model, which also accounts for the

species conservation

Pino-Del-Carpio A, Ariño AH & Miranda R (2014) Dataexchange gaps in knowledge of biodiversity: implications forthe management and conservation of Biosphere Reserves.
Biodiversity & Conservation 23(9): 2239-2258. doi:10.1007/
s10531-014-0718-2
Author country: Spain
Research funding: Association of Friends of the Universityof Navarra

corresponding to a war of independence and civil
war. After identifying 18 key Angolan timber trees,
these researchers drew upon 2,253 specimen
records from 62 collections published through GBIF.
In addition to revealing striking differences in thetrees’ biogeographic patterns, the results suggestthat 11 species should be given higher priority forconservation, particularly those concentrated in the
Cabinda’s Maiombe forest.

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passenger pigeon’s erratic migrations, habitat loss
and nesting collapses. The results not only resolve
the central mystery, attributing primary responsibility
to decades of commercial overharvesting, butalso suggest that regular Red Listing would likely
have unmasked the rising extinction risk—thereby
signalling the present-day importance of species
monitoring strategies in an era of rapid environmental
change.

MEASURING PARKS’ EFFECTIVENESS IN
PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY IN KENYA
Tóth AB, Lyons SK, & Behrensmeyer AK (2014) A Century
of Change in Kenya’s Mammal Communities: Increased
Richness and Decreased Uniqueness in Six Protected Areas.
PLoS ONE 9(4): e93092. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093092
Author country: United States
Research funding: National Museum of Natural History

Scientific documentation of Kenya’s mammal
communities since the late 19th century is robust,
between historical specimens from the colonial era of
big-game hunting and modern observations from thenational parks established after the Second World War.
This case study leverages those data (many accessed
through GBIF) to examine the long-term impact ofprotected areas on biodiversity protection.
While detailing some species turnover and a decline
in the uniqueness of local mammalian communities
across the six parks that comprise the study area,
the analysis reveals that these protected areas havesustained species richness in spite of increasing
environmental change and human encroachments.

ARE EUROPE’S MOST PROTECTED AMPHIBIANS
FROM SAFE FROM PESTICIDES?
Wagner N, Rödder D, Brühl CA et al. (2014) Evaluating therisk of pesticide exposure for amphibian species listed in
Annex II of the European Union Habitats Directive. BiologicalConservation 176: 64-70. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2014.05.014
Author country: Germany
Research funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

In 1992, the European Union’s Habitats Directive
established the Natura 2000 network of protectedareas as a keystone element of EU nature
conservation. The Directive’s Annex II designates theuse of special areas of conservation (SAC) for listed
species, including 25 amphibians. But regular use ofherbicides and fungicides in agricultural portions of
SAC puts amphibians at risk during any life-stage, as
their permeable skin quickly absorbs higher chemical
concentrations than do other animal classes.
Calculating the proportion of SAC lands treatedregularly with pesticides, this German research teamrelied on GBIF-mediated data and other sources toreveal that nearly all of most at-risk amphibians
had sufficient protection. However, varying levelsof exposure across site and national scales likely
warrants ongoing amphibian monitoring in SAC
management plans.

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESMcPherson TY

Landscape scale species distribution
modeling across the Guiana
Shield to inform conservation
decision making in Guyana

Biodiversity andConservation 23(8):1931-1948

doi: 10.1007/s10531014-0696-4

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Biodiversity and human healthexamples
MAPPING THE NICHE OF EBOLA HOST ANIMALSIn 2014, as the Ebola virus disease took hold in West
Africa —an outbreak that is both the largest everrecorded and the region’s first—an internationalteam of researchers sought to identify regions andcountries at greatest risk from the epidemic. While
uncertainty remains about the virus’s true reservoir,bats are suspected to play an important role as the life
cycle of Ebola and other filoviruses. Relying on GBIFmediated occurrence data, the researchers modelled
the ranges of three species believed to be the most
likely reservoirs for Ebola’s transmission to humans:
the hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus),
little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata) and
Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti).
Combining these data with the location data on
previous zoonotic transmissions, the study identified
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Author countries: United Kingdom, United States, Canada,
SwedenResearch funding: University Of Oxford; Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation; Medical Research Council; Biotechnology
and Biological Sciences Research Council; German Academic
Exchange Service; U.S. National Library of Medicine;
European Union 7th Framework Programme for Research
and Technological Development; Canadian Institutes of
Health Research; Wellcome Trust; Science & Technology
Directorate; Fogarty International Center; National Instituteof Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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22 million. The authors argue that these findings will
help to prioritize surveillance for Ebola outbreaks andimprove the diagnostic capacity in at-risk regions.

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alkaloid-based medicines despite their 4,000-year
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and potential reservoirs using
ecological niche modelingInternational Journalof Health Geographics
13(1): 34

doi: 10.1186/1476072X-13-34

United States

Ondrejicka DA, Locke
SA, Morey K et al.

Status and prospects of DNA
barcoding in medically importantparasites and vectors

Trends in Parasitology30(12): 582-591

doi: 10.1016/j.
pt.2014.09.003

CanadaPigott DM, Golding
N, Mylne A et al.

Mapping the zoonotic niche ofEbola virus disease in Africa

eLife 3: e04395

doi: 10.7554/
eLife.04395

United Kingdom, UnitedStates, Canada, Sweden

Samy AM, van deSande WWJ, Fahal
AH & Peterson AT

Mapping the potential riskof mycetoma infection in
Sudan and South Sudan using
ecological niche modeling.

PLOS Neglected Tropical
Diseases 8(10): e3250

doi:10.1371/journal.
pntd.0003250

United States, Egypt,
Netherlands, Sudan

Turi CE, Shipley
PR & Murch SJ

North American Artemisia species
from the subgenus Tridentatae(Sagebrush): a phytochemical,
botanical and pharmacological review

Phytochemistry 98: 9-26

doi:10.1016/
j.phytochem.
2013.11.016

CanadaFood, farming and biofuels
examples
PREDICTING CLIMATE IMPACTS ON THE
PROFITABILITY OF UK FISHERIES
Jones MC, Dye SR, Pinnegar JK et al. (2014) Using scenarios
to project the changing profitability of fisheries underclimate change. Fish and Fisheries doi:10.1111/faf.12081
Author countries: Canada, United Kingdom
Research funding: UK Department for Environment, Foodand Rural Affairs; Nippon Foundation; National Geographic
Society; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Councilof Canada; European Union 7th Framework Programme
for Research and Technological Development; Natural
Environment Research Council

With climate change expected to lead to large-scale
shifts in marine species distributions, researchers
explored scenarios to investigate possible impacts on
UK fisheries. GBIF and other global databases supplied
the occurrence data for 31 fish and vertebrate species
needed to build species distribution models, which arethen linked in turn to cost-benefit analyses.
Despite predictions that a few species like European
sea bass and sardines may increase, the results
indicate future decreases in marine productivity,
total catch value and weight and, thus, the fisheries’
profitability. Whether these
impacts derive directly fromchanges in species distribution
or abundance or indirectlyfrom altered operating costs,
the authors recommend
increased adaptive capacityand diversification as the mosteffective means of minimizing andoffsetting the anticipated drop inrevenues.
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STALKING THE WILD CHILI PEPPER
Kraft KH, Brown CH, Nabhan GP et al. (2014) Multiple lines
of evidence for the origin of domesticated chili pepper,
Capsicum annuum, in Mexico. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
111(17):6165-70. doi:10.1073/pnas.1308933111
Author countries: United States, Kenya, Mexico, France
Research funding: The Fulbright Program; Universityof California Institute for Mexico and the United States;
University of California, Davis, Dept of Plant Sciences

The task of locating the geographic origins andidentity of crop species typically combines genetic
and archaeological analysis of ancient botanicalremains like starch and pollen grains. To find thewild source of today’s domesticated chili pepper,

researchers here extend these methods with theaddition of linguistic and ecological models. The
former reconstructs the crop-related vocabularies ofprotohistorical languages of northeastern and centraleast Mexico, while the latter draws on GBIF-mediateddata to produce distribution models for Capiscum
annuum var. glabriusculum circa 6,000 years ago.
The independent evidence from each discipline points
to slightly different locations, but by hypothesizingthat human interest in the chili’s wild relative first
appeared further south than previously believed, theauthors suggest that Mexican food crops arose acrossa Mesoamerican Fertile Crescent.

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESBlanchard R, O'Farrell
PJ, & Richardson DM

Anticipating potential biodiversity
conflicts for future biofuel crops
in South Africa: incorporating
spatial filters with species
distribution models

GCB Bioenergy

doi: 10.1111/
gcbb.12129

South Africa

Chomicki G & Renner SS

Watermelon origin solved withmolecular phylogenetics including
Linnaean material: anotherexample of museomics

The New Phytologist

doi: 10.1111/
nph.13163

Germanyd’Eeckenbrugge GC& Lacape J-M

Distribution and Differentiationof Wild, Feral, and CultivatedPopulations of Perennial Upland
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in
Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

PLoS ONE 9(9): e107458

doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0107458

FranceGalluzzi G & López
Noriega I

Conservation and Use of Genetic
Resources of Underutilized Crops in
the Americas—A Continental Analysis

Sustainability
6(2): 980-1017

doi: 10.3390/
su6020980

Colombia, Italy

Ghamkhar K, Nichols
PGH, Erskine W et al.

Hotspots and gaps in the world
collection of subterranean clover(Trifolium subterraneum L.)

The Journal of
Agricultural Science

doi: 10.1017/
S0021859614000793

Australia, New
Zealand, Spain

Hager HA, Sinasac
SE, Gedalof Z et al.

Predicting potential global
distributions of two miscanthus
grasses: implications forhorticulture, biofuel production,and biological invasions

PLoS ONE 9(6): e100032

doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0100032

CanadaHussein JM, Mshandete
AM & Kivaisi AK

Molecular phylogeny of saprophytic
wild edible mushroom species
from Tanzania based on ITS
and nLSU rDNA sequences

Current Research in
Environmental & Applied
Mycology 4(2): 250-260

doi: 10.5943/
cream/4/ 2 /1 2

Tanzania

Johnson AL,
Govindarajulu R &Ashman T-L

Bioclimatic evaluation of geographicalrange in Fragaria (Rosaceae):
consequences of variation in breeding
system, ploidy and species age

Botanical Journal of
the Linnean Society
176(1): 99-114

doi: 10.1111/
boj.12190

United States

Jones MC, Dye SR,
Pinnegar JK et al.

Using scenarios to project thechanging profitability of fisheries
under climate change

Fish and Fisheries

doi: 10.1111/
faf.12081

Canada, United Kingdom

Kraft KH, Brown CH,
Nabhan GP et al.

Multiple lines of evidence for theorigin of domesticated chili pepper,
Capsicum annuum, in Mexico

Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences of the USA
111(17): 6165-6170

doi: 10.1073/
pnas.1308933111

United States, Kenya,
Mexico, France

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESSánchez S, Gómez
E, Martín M et al.

Experiments on the life cycle andfactors affecting reproductionof Sphaerosporella brunnea
provide evidence for rapid asexual
propagation by conidiosporesand for homothallism in an
ectomycorrhizal competitor ofcultivated truffle species

Fungal Ecology 8: 59-65

doi:10.1016/j.
funeco.2013.12.003

Spain, Austria

Shabani F, Kumar
L & Taylor S

Distribution of Date Palms
in the Middle East Based on
Future Climate Scenarios

Experimental Agriculture51(2): 244-263.

doi:10.1017/
S001447971400026X

Australia

Shabani F & Kumar L

Sensitivity Analysis of CLIMEXParameters in Modeling Potential
Distribution of Phoenix dactylifera L.

PLoS ONE 9(4): e94867

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0094867

Australia

Tendall DM, Hellweg
S, Pfister S et al.

Impacts of river water consumption
on aquatic biodiversity in life cycle
assessment--a proposed method,
and a case study for Europe

Environmental
Science & Technology
48(6): 3236-44

doi:10.1021/
es4048686

Switzerland, Netherlands

Vanderplank S, Ezcurra
E, Delgadillo J et al.

Conservation challenges in athreatened hotspot: agriculture
and plant biodiversity losses
in Baja California, Mexico

Biodiversity andConservation: 23(9):2173-2182

doi:10.1007/s10531014-0711-9

MexicoVolk GM, Chao CT,
Norelli J et al.

The vulnerability of US apple(Malus) genetic resources

Genetic Resources
and Crop Evolution

doi:10.1007/s10722014-0194-2

United States

Wang W, Tang X,
Zhu Q et al.

Predicting the impacts ofclimate change on the potential
distribution of major native nonfood bioenergy plants in China

PLoS ONE 9(11): e111587

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0111587

China

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examplesCALCULATING THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF WILDFOODS IN EUROPE
Schulp CJE, Thuiller W & Verburg PH (2014) Wild food inEurope: A synthesis of knowledge and data of terrestrial wild
food as an ecosystem service. Ecological Economics 105:
292–305. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.06.018
Author countries: France, Netherlands
Research funding: ERA-Net; European Union 7th Framework
Programme for Research and Technological Development

While collecting and consuming wild food isrecognized as an important cultural ecosystemservice, quantitative measures of these provisions
have been harder to come by. The authors
synthesized data for wild food species through GBIF
and other sources, using the density of occurrences
and social science data about collecting and foraging
to quantify and map the value of the wild game andplants consumed throughout Europe.

WILD LINGONBERRIES FOR SALE AT TAXINGE SLOTT SOUTH OF
STOCKHOLM. CC BY-NC 2010 VILSESKOGEN HTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/8ZVJYJ

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BUSTLING MARKET IN
BOHICON, BENIN. CC BY-NC-ND
2008 ADAM COHN HTTPS://
FLIC.KR/P/5R6DTW

ASSESSING THE VULNERABILITY OF MEDICINAL
PLANTS IN WEST AFRICA

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESConvertino M, MuñozCarpena R, Kiker GA et al.

Design of optimal ecosystemmonitoring networks: hotspot
detection and biodiversity patterns

Stochastic
Environmental Researchand Risk Assessment

doi: 10.1007/s00477014-0999-8

United States

Nuutinen V, Butt KR,
Jauhiainen L et al.

Dew-worms in white nights:
High-latitude light constrains
earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
behaviour at the soil surface

Soil Biology andBiochemistry 72: 66-74

doi: 10.1016/j.
soilbio.2014.01.023

United Kingdom,
Finland, United States

Schulp CJE, Thuiller
W & Verburg PH

Wild food in Europe: A synthesis ofknowledge and data of terrestrial
wild food as an ecosystem service

Ecological Economics
105: 292–305.

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolecon.2014.06.018

France, Netherlands

Schulp CJE, Burkhard
B, Maes J et al.

Uncertainties in ecosystemservice maps: a comparisonon the European scale

PLoS ONE 9(10):e109643

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0109643

Netherlands, Germany, Italy

Schulp CJE, Lautenbach
S & Verburg PH

Quantifying and mapping ecosystemservices: Demand and supply ofpollination in the European Union

Ecological Indicators
36: 131–141

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolind.2013.07.014

Netherlands, Germany

van Andel TR, Croft S,
van Loon EE et al.

Prioritizing West African medicinal
plants for conservation andsustainable extraction studies
based on market surveys andspecies distribution models

Biological Conservation
181: 173-181

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.11.015

Netherlands

ecosystem services

van Andel TR, Croft S, van Loon EE et al. (2014) Prioritizing
West African medicinal plants for conservation andsustainable extraction studies based on market surveys andspecies distribution models. Biological Conservation 181:173-181. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2014.11.015
Author country: Netherlands
Research funding: Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research

Wild-harvested medicinal plants are an importantsource of health and trade for people in sub-SaharanAfrica. By combining quantitative surveys of herbal
markets in Ghana and Benin with the first detailed
distribution maps for 12 commercially extracted
medicinal plants (which draw upon GBIF-mediateddata), this study assess the potential vulnerabilityof species to overharvesting with the goal ofsafeguarding important provisioning services of West
African ecosystems.

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SUBSAMPLING DATA TOREMOVE SPECIES BIAS FROMDISTRIBUTION MODELS

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Beck J, Böller M, Erhardt A et al. (2014)
Spatial bias in the GBIF databaseand its effect on modeling species’
geographic distributions. Ecological
Informatics 19: 10-15. doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2013.11.002
Author country: Switzerland
Research funding: Swiss National
Science Foundation

Spatial bias in species distribution
data results from a dataset’s
density of records reflecting
factors like uneven samplingor mobilization, rather than
the true density of a species.
Understanding, accounting for
SARDINIAN BROOK SALAMANDER (EUPROCTUS PLATYCEPHALUS) CC BY-NC 2014 JAKOB H.
HTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/NHKGOK
and removing such inaccuracies is
an important step in improving the
A detailed analysis of occurrence records fordevelopment and application of distribution models
Eucalyptus nitens and E. botryoides (within
for research and decision-making.
and beyond their native ranges) suggests how
Using as a case study the small tortoiseshell (Algais
forest managers could apply such data to assess
uriticae), a common Eurasian butterfly, the authors
vulnerability and plan adaptation strategies.
examined how the spatial clustering of GBIF-mediated
MAPPING EUROPE’S HERPS
data affects model quality. For widespread species
Creemers R, Denoël M, Campos J et al. (2014) Updatedwith abundant data, they recommend and propose a
subsampling routine that removes spatial bias without distribution and biogeography of amphibians andreptiles of Europe. Amphibia-Reptilia 35(1): 1-31.
reducing the predictive strength of resulting models.

Booth TH (2014) Using biodiversity databases to verify andimprove descriptions of tree species climatic requirements.
Forest Ecology and Management 315: 95-102. doi:10.1016/
j.foreco.2013.12.028
Author country: Australia
Research funding: CSIRO

doi:10.1163/15685381-00002935
Author countries: Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, France,
Serbia, Belgium, Russia, Greece, Spain, Germany
Research funding: Societas Europaea Herpetologica;
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal); Spanish
Ministry of Environment; the Ministry of Education, Scienceand Technological Development of Republic of Serbia; Fondsde la Recherches Scientifique, Belgium; Generalitat deCatalunya, Spain; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Though climate research tends to focus on impacts
on native species, such changes threaten importantcommercial species, too. Australian eucalypts andacacia are planted in more than 90 countries, andthis study examines how open-access data available
through the Atlas of Living Australia and GBIF can
improve existing commercial forestry information on
their climatic requirements.

The species distribution maps developed by Societas
Europaea Herpetologica for The Atlas of Amphibians
and Reptiles in Europe were highly useful and original
upon their release. But the scientific landscape
has shifted considerably since 1997 with thegrowth of GIS, computing power and accumulated
occurrence data, all of which have helped fuel parallel
improvements in taxonomic understanding.

OPEN ACCESS DATA IMPROVES KNOWLEDGE ON
CLIMATIC NEEDS OF PLANTATION TREES

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Updated with data now availalbe from GBIF.org andother sources, this update to the Atlas refreshes maps
for 218 taxa (73 amphibians and 145 reptiles) whileworking toward a distributed, interactive and dynamic
online system for data on European herpetofauna.
The accompanying analysis seeks to identify patternsof species richness and endemism as well as major
spatial and taxonomic gaps in hope of targeting key
areas for future inventory and research.

DEDUCING AVAILABLE HABITAT FOR AMPHIBIANS
Ficetola GF, Rondinin C, Bonnardi A et al. (2014) Habitat
availability for amphibians and extinction threat: a
global analysis. Diversity and Distributions 21: 302-311.
doi:10.1111/ddi.12296
Author countries: Italy, France
Some examples
Research
funding: University of Milano-Bicocca

As a group, amphibians are among the world’s mostimperilled animals, and habitat loss and degradation
represent the greatest threat they face by far. Despite
this understanding, quantitative assessments ofhabitat availability exist for only a few species.

COMPARING METHODS FOR REMOVING SAMPLING
BIASES IN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS
Fourcade Y, Engler JO, Rödder D et al. (2014) Mapping
Species Distributions with MAXENT Using a Geographically
Biased Sample of Presence Data: A Performance Assessmentof Methods for Correcting Sampling Bias. PLoS ONE 9(5):e97122. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097122
Author countries: France, Germany
Research funding: Plan Loire Grandeur Nature; European
Regional Development Fund; German Federal Environmental
Foundation

Despite its wide use in conservation science andpractice to estimate areas most likely to host a given
species, species distribution modelling (SDM) remains

In addition to highlighting the importance of bias typeand intensity in selecting correction methods, theauthors found that systematic sampling of records
generated the best and most consistently performing
models, offering the most efficient results as well as a
key area for further research.

MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS REVEALS KEY DRIVERS OF
SPECIES COMPOSITION
Kent R, Bar-Massada A & Carmel Y (2014) Bird and mammal
species composition in distinct geographic regions and theirrelationships with environmental factors across multiple
spatial scales. Ecology and evolution 4(10): 1963-71l.
doi:10.1002/ece3.1072
Author countries: United Kingdom, Israel
Research funding: Israel Science Foundation; Israeli Ministryof Science and Technology

Which environmental factors drive global patternsof species composition? This study sought answers
through a comparative multi-scalar analysis of the
distribution of mammals and breeding birds acrossAustralia and the continental United States.
Using GBIF-mediated records for 1,376 bird species(572 from Australia / 804 from the U.S.) and 655
mammals (371 AU / 284 US), the authors examined
the impact of environmental factors on the groups’
distribution by systematically upscaling theircontinent-wide analyses across grid cells ranging insize from 10 to 10,000 km2. The results show thatclimate and land use / land cover explain most of thevariance in species composition at all scales, althoughwith consistently contrasting effects.

DETERMINING WHERE MISTLETOE CAN GO
Lira-Noriega A & Peterson AT (2014) Range-wide ecologicalniche comparisons of parasite, hosts and dispersers in avector-borne plant parasite system. Journal of Biogeography
doi:10.1111/jbi.12302
Author country: United States
Research funding: University of Kansas; Consejo Nacional deCiencia y Tecnologıa, Mexico; GBIF Young Researchers Award

Climatic factors shaping the ecological dynamics
between parasites, their hosts and their vectors arepoorly understood. This study examined whether

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Here the authors produced the first global evaluationof available habitat for amphibians by repurposing
data gathered through GBIF and other sources foranalysis in Ficetola et al. (see p.20). Combining
this recent high-precision dataset with land cover,elevation, and species range maps from the2004 Global Amphibian Assessment, the results
provide deductive suitable habitat models that
more accurately predict the distribution of 5,363
amphibians species. The approach refines theexpert-based polygons by defining suitable andunsuitable habitats and provides a ‘coarse but robust’assessment, establishing large-scale priorities indata-poor areas and highlighting the need for more
finer-scale studies of habitat requirements.

prone to errors attributable to biases in source data.
This study tests five proposed methods for correcting
SDM sampling bias, using records for both ‘virtual’ andreal species—the latter including GBIF-mediated dataon the white-spotted slimy salamander (Plethodon
cylindraceus)—comparing the accuracy of resulting
models across a range of conditions.

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reveal ancient evolutionary history: the Case of Hypericum(Hypericaceae). Systematic Biology 64(2): 215-232.
doi:10.1093/sysbio/syu088
Author countries: Spain, France, United States, United Kingdom
Research funding: Spanish Ministry of Science

DESERT MISTLETOE (PHORADENDRON CALIFORNICUM), COACHELLAVALLEY, CALIFORNIA CC BY-SA 2008 JOE DECRUYENAEREHTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/4MWQEV

the distribution of desert mistletoe (Phoradendron
californicum) hinges on its own ecological niche in
the Sonoran and Mojave deserts, those of the trees it
infects or those of the birds that disperse its seeds.

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By modeling and comparing the amounts of overlap
between the parasite, eight common hosts (using
GBIF-mediated records) and 10 common avian
dispersers, the authors uncovered broad support for
the finding that mistletoe only infects host species
within areas suitable and accessible to it.

REVIEWING NATIONAL BALANCE SHEETS ON
CAPITAL, CAPACITY AND NATURAL HERITAGE
Lira-Noriega A & Soberón J (2014) The relationship among
biodiversity, governance, wealth, and scientific capacity
at a country level: Disaggregation and prioritization. Ambio.
doi:10.1007/s13280-014-0581-0
Author country: United States
Research funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation

In this examination of the relationships between
biodiversity richness, wealth and institutional
capacity in more than 200 countries and territories,
this study used the number of records mobilized
through GBIF as part of an index of scientific capacity.
The overall picture that emerges is not simple,
with patterns of wealth and capacity displaying acomplicated pattern that cuts against conventional
wisdom. The authors conclude by encouraging
collaborations to improve access to primarybiodiversity data (digitized or not) not yet available foranalysis, science and policy.

BACK TO THE FUTURE: INTEGRATING THE FOSSIL
RECORD INTO SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELLING
Meseguer AS, Lobo JM, Ree R et al. (2014) Integrating
Fossils, Phylogenies, and Niche Models into Biogeography toStudies that explore ancestral species ranges rely
on both fossils and present-day observations, but
the assumptions behind such reconstructions carry
uncertainties, due in part to highly variable historic
rates of extinction that can eliminate significant
and unobservable fractions of scientific evidence.
Here, using a large, well-known plant genus andnewly available global-scale paleo-climate models,
the researchers offer an example for linking thefossil record to ecological and climatic information
in a reconstructed history of Hypericum, St. John’swort. GBIF-mediated occurrences for extant species
contribute to their identification of key dispersal
corridors and barriers as well as a potentially highextinction rates in Eurasia during the recent long-termclimatic oscillations.

POLLEN SHOWS LIMITS TO THE ANDES’ INFLUENCE
Palazzesi, L, Barreda, VD, Cuitiño, JI et al. (2014) Fossil
pollen records indicate that Patagonian desertification
was not solely a consequence of Andean uplift. Nature
Communications 5:3558. doi:10.1038/ncomms4558
Author countries: Argentina, United Kingdom, Brazil
Research funding: Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica
y Tecnológica; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas

The harsh, arid grasslands of Patagonia seem likea clear product of the rain shadow created by the
uplift of southern Andes between 14 and 12 million
years ago. But this study of plant richness, based on
fossil spores and pollen grains from shallow marine
sediments in eastern Patagonia, hints at a more
dynamic past. GBIF-mediated records for closest
living, climate-sensitive plant relatives helped callattention to the earlier presence of rainforest ferns
and gymnosperms. The disappearance of these
tropical and humid-zone plants from the region within
the past 6 million years supports an alternative
scenario in which the rise of the Andes only started
a desertification process that later climatic changes
further promoted.

NEOTROPICAL ORCHID BEES—LUMP OR SPLIT?
Silva DP, Vilela B, De Marco P & Nemésio A (2014) Using
Ecological Niche Models and Niche Analyses to UnderstandSpeciation Patterns: The Case of Sister Neotropical Orchid
Bees. PLoS ONE 9(11): e113246. doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0113246

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Author country: Brazil
Research funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Coordenação de
Aperfeiçoamento de Pe soal de Ensino Superior (CAPES)The Amazon and Atlantic forests have seen alternating
cycles of expansion and contraction during the past
23 million years. These processes have isolated
several subpopulations of the orchid bee genera
Eulaema and Eufriesea, sparking disagreements overwhether they should now be considered separate
populations of the same species or different species
altogether. By developing ecological niche models
built with data drawn from GBIF.org and other sources,
this Brazilian research team measured the overlap
in environments that the bees inhabit today. The
comparative divergence supports a taxonomic split
between the two populations while identifying key
new areas for future surveys.

STUDYING EUROPEAN DIVERSITY UNDERFOOT
Simaiakis SM & Strona G (2014) Patterns and processes inthe distribution of European centipedes (Chilopoda). Journalof Biogeography 42(6): 1018-1028. doi:10.1111/jbi.12463
Author country: Greece

Tarroso P, Pereira RJ, Martínez-Freiría F et al. (2014)
Hybridization at an ecotone: ecological and genetic barriers
between three Iberian vipers. Molecular Ecology 23(5):1108-23. doi:10.1111/mec.12671
Author country: Portugal
Research funding: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
European Regional Development Fund

Sited along a transition between the Mediterranean
and Euro-Siberian bioregions, northern Spain’s High
Ebro area hosts three overlapping vipers: the ‘sister’species Vipera aspis and V. latastei and the moregenetically distinctive V. seoanei. In this ‘triple contact
zone’ where hybrids are not uncommon, the authors
found a unique setting investigating the processes
that shape species boundaries.
Combining genetic analysis of field specimens with
distribution models that use data from GBIF.org andother sources, the results highlight how the ecologicalbarriers that sharply delineate suitable habitat foreach species effectively maintain distinct species
despite the presence of fertile hybrids.

APPLYING NICHE MODELS TO ESTIMATE RISKS OF
VENOMOUS SNAKEBITES
Yañez-Arenas C, Peterson AT, Mokondoko P et al. (2014) The
Use of Ecological Niche Modeling to Infer Potential Risk Areasof Snakebite in the Mexican State of Veracruz. PLoS ONE 9(6):e100957. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100957
Author countries: Mexico, United States
Research funding: CONACYT

Human death and disease from poisonous snakebitesin the tropics is so frequent that the World HealthOrganization classifies the phenomena as a ‘neglected
tropical disease’. This study focuses its analysis on
the Mexican state of Veracruz— home to 21 venomous
snakes and the country’s second highest snakebite
rate—seeking to establish whether estimates ofsuitable viper habitat can reliably predict risks.
Building on ecological niche models that exploit datafrom GBIF.org and other sources on nine viper species,
the authors then apply the distance from the model’s
center as a measure of environmental suitability,
potential abundance and, thereby, incidence risk.
While the predictive results vary across the focal
species, the approach suggests the value of wider,more general application, possibly corroborated withdensity estimates for snake populations.

CENTIPEDE (CHILOPODA) ON THE WALL OF A CHAPEL, NORTH-EAST OF
POLYGYROS CC BY 2015 LUC T. HTTPS://FLIC.KR/P/UJULPY

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Despite a worldwide history that stretches backhundreds of millions of years and an important
ecosystem function, centipedes do not suffer fromscientific overexposure. This study draws on GBIFmediated and other data to characterize key patterns
and processes among 585 European species in
the class Chilopoda, revealing the presence of four
distinct biogeographic segments in the region,
including a potential soil-invertebrate hotspot in the
Balkan Peninsula—a possible legacy of providing
microrefuges from recent Pleistocene glaciers.

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Ahmed ST & Tajamul M

Morphometric studies of thepost embryonic developmental
stages of Rice Grasshopper, Oxya
japonica (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

New York Science
Journal 7(4)http://www.
sciencepub.net/
newyork/ny07
04/017_24333
ny070414_107_111.pdf

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Al-Ajami AAA

Study on the seriousness ofthe mistletoe plant acacia
trees and how to combat it. Almahaweet - Republic of Yemen

International Journal of
Research In Agriculture
and Food Sciences 2:4

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Yemen

Allen L, von May R,
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A preliminary geographic distribution
map of Elachistocleis muiraquitan
Nunes de Almeida & Toledo, 2012
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United Kingdom,
United States

Almeida DAC, GusmãoLFP & Miller AN

Brazilian Semi-Arid Ascomycetes
I : New and interesting records ofhysteriaceous ascomycetes

Mycosphere 5(2):379-391

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Brazil, United States

Andújar C, Arribas
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Integration of conflict into integrative
taxonomy: fitting hybridization in
species delimitation of Mesocarabus(Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Molecular Ecology
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doi: 10.1111/
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Spain, Ecuador

Antunes Carvalho F,
Filer D & Renner S

Taxonomy in the electronic age
and an e-monograph of the papaya
family (Caricaceae) as an example

Cladistics 31(3): 321-329

doi: 10.1111/
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Germany, United Kingdom

Arribas P, Andújar
C, Abellán P et al.

Tempo and mode of the multiple
origins of salinity tolerance
in a water beetle lineage

Molecular Ecology
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doi: 10.1111/
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Spain

Artyukova EV, Kozyrenko
MM, Boltenkov EV et al.

One or three species in Megadenia(Brassicaceae): insightfrom molecular studies

Genetica 142: 337-350

doi: 10.1007/
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RussiaAshford OS, Davies
AJ & Jones DOB

Deep-sea benthic megafaunal
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global-scale maximum entropy
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Deep Sea Research Part I:
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United Kingdom

Aubert S, Boucher F,
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1914–2014: A revised worldwide
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Alpine Botany124(1): 59-70

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FranceBaniaga AE & Barker MS

Characterization of the
Selaginella arizonica xeremophila(Selaginellaceae) Hybrid
Zone in Southern Arizona

The Plant Press The Arizona Native
Plant Society

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United States

Baranzelli MC, Johnson
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Historical and ecological divergenceamong populations of Monttea
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endemic endangered shrub bordering
the Atacama Desert, Chile

Evolutionary Ecology
28(4): 751-774

doi: 10.1007/s10682014-9694-y

Argentina, United States

Barkworth ME, Cialdella
AM & Gandhi K

Piptochaetium fuscum (Neesex Steud.) Barkworth, Ciald.,& Gandhi, a new combination
replacing Piptochaetium
setosum (Trin.) Arechav.

PhytoKeys 35: 17-22

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United States, Argentina

Barve N, Martin C,
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The role of physiological optima
in shaping the geographic
distribution of Spanish moss

Global Ecology
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23(6): 633-645

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United States

Barve S & Mason N

Interspecific competition affects
evolutionary links between cavity
nesting, migration and clutch size in
Old World flycatchers (Muscicapdae)

Ibis

doi: 10.1111/ibi.12233

United States

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Phylogeographical analysis of
two cold-tolerant plants withdisjunct Lusitanian distributions
does not support in situ survival
during the last glaciation

Journal of Biogeography
41(11): 2185-2193

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12371

United Kingdom

Beatty GE, Lennon JJ,
O'Sullivan CJ et al.

The not-so-Irish spurge: Euphorbia
hyberna (Euphorbiaceae) and the
Littletonian plant ‘steeplechase’

Biological Journal of
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doi: 10.1111/bij.12435

United Kingdom

Beck J, Böller M,
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Spatial bias in the GBIF databaseand its effect on modeling species'
geographic distributions

Ecological Informatics
19: 10-15

doi: 10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2013.11.002

Switzerland

Bell KL, Heard TA,
Manion G et al.

Characterising the phytophagous
arthropod fauna of a single
host plant species: assessing
survey completeness at
continental and local scales

Biodiversity andConservation 23(12):2985-3003

doi: 10.1007/
s10531-014-0758-7

Australia, United States

Bellot S & Renner SS

The systematics of the worldwide
endoparasite family Apodanthaceae(Cucurbitales), with a key, a map,and color photos of most species

PhytoKeys 36: 41-57

doi: 10.3897/
phytokeys.36.7385

Germany

Bendiksby M, Mazzoni
S, Jørgensen MH et al.

Combining genetic analyses ofarchived specimens with distribution
modelling to explain the anomalous
distribution of the rare lichen
Staurolemma omphalarioides : longdistance dispersal or vicariance?

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/
jbi.12347

NorwayBermejo-Orduna
R, McBride JR,
Shiraishi K et al.

Biomonitoring of traffic-related
nitrogen pollution using
Letharia vulpina (L.) Hue in the
Sierra Nevada, California

Science of The
Total Environment
490: 205-212

doi: 10.1016/
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2014.04.119

Spain, United States

Booth TH

Using biodiversity databases toverify and improve descriptions oftree species climatic requirements

Forest Ecology andManagement 315: 95-102

doi: 10.1016/j.
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Australia

Borisanova AO,
Chernyshev AV,
Neretina TV et al.

Description and phylogenetic
position of the first abyssal solitary
kamptozoan species from theKuril-Kamchatka trench area:
Loxosomella profundorum sp. nov.
(Kamptozoa: Loxosomatidae)

Deep Sea ResearchPart II: Topical Studies
in Oceanography

doi: 10.1016/j.
dsr2.2014.07.016

RussiaBosch J, MardonesF, Pérez A et al.

A maximum entropy model
for predicting wild boar
distribution in Spain

Spanish Journal of
Agricultural Research
12(4): 984-999

doi: 10.5424/
sjar/2014124-5717

Spain, United States,
Argentina

Bozsik A

Food Preference Of Chrysolina
Fastuosa Adults (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae)

Acta Zoologica
Academiae Scientiarum
Hungaricae 60(3):239-245

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Hungary

Chao YS, Rouhan G,
Amoroso VB et al.

Molecular phylogeny andbiogeography of the fern genus
Pteris (Pteridaceae) Yi-Shan

Annals of Botany
114: 109-124

doi: 10.1093/
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Chinese Taipei, France

Chen C, Qi ZC, Xu XH et al.

Understanding the formationof Mediterranean-African-Asian
disjunctions: evidence for Miocene
climate-driven vicariance and recent
long-distance dispersal in the Tertiary
relict Smilax aspera (Smilacaceae)

The New Phytologist
204(1): 243-255

doi: 10.1111/
nph.12910

China, Austria, Germany

Collevatti RG,
Lima-Ribeiro MA,
Terribile LC et al.

Recovering species demographic
history from multi-model
inference: the case of a Neotropicalsavanna tree species

BMC Evolutionary
Biology 14(1): 213

doi: 10.1186/
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Brazilbiodiversity science

AUTHORS
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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESColombo M, Damerau
M, Hanel R et al.

Diversity and disparity throughtime in the adaptive radiation of
Antarctic notothenioid fishes

Journal of Evolutionary
Biologydoi: 10.1111/
jeb.12570

Switzerland,
Germany, Norway

Copeland SM &Harrison SP

Identifying plant traits associatedwith topographic contrasts ina rugged and diverse region(Klamath-Siskiyou Mts, OR, USA)

Ecography 37

doi: 10.1111/
ecog.00802

United States

Cornwell W, Westoby
M, Falster D et al.

Functional distinctivenessof major plant lineages

Journal of Ecology
102(2): 345:356

doi: 10.1111/13652745.12208

Netherlands, Australia,
Canada, United States,
Estonia, Poland

Costa M, Batista R &Gurgel-Gonçalves R

Predicting geographic distributionsof Phacellodomus species (Aves:
Furnariidae) in South America basedon ecological niche modeling

Acta Scientiarum
36(3): 299-306

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BrazilCreemers R, Denoël
M, Campos J et al.

Updated distribution andbiogeography of amphibians
and reptiles of Europe

Amphibia-Reptilia
35(1): 1-31

doi:10.1163/
15685381-00002935

Portugal, Italy,
Netherlands, France,
Serbia, Belgium, Russia,
Greece, Spain, Germany

da Silva M & Noll F

Biogeography of the social wasp
genus Brachygastra (Hymenoptera:
Vespidade: Polistinae)

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12417

BrazilDe Cauwer V, Muys B,
Revermann R et al

Potential, realised, future
distribution and environmental
suitability for Pterocarpus
angolensis DC in southern Africa

Forest Ecology
and Management
315: 211-226

doi: 10.1016/j.
foreco.2013.12.032

Namibia, Belgium,
Germany, Italy

de Lima N, Lima-Ribeiro
MS, Tinoco CF et al

Phylogeography and ecologicalniche modelling, coupled with thefossil pollen record, unravel thedemographic history of a Neotropicalswamp palm through the Quaternary

Journal of Biogeography
41(4): 673-686

doi: 10.1111/
jbi.12269

Brazilde Melo França L, Fortier
DC, Bocchiglieri A et al.

Radiocarbon dating and stable
isotopes analyses of Caiman
latirostris (Daudin, 1801)(Crocodylia, Alligatoridae) from thelate Pleistocene of Northeastern
Brazil, with comments on spatial
distribution of the species

Quaternary International352: 159-163

doi: 10.1016/j.
quaint.2014.06.046

Brazil, United States

Dean SL, Farrer EC,
Taylor DL et al.

Nitrogen deposition alters
plant–fungal relationships:
linking belowground dynamics toaboveground vegetation change

Molecular Ecology
23: 1364–1378

doi: 10.1111/
mec.12541

United States

Demos TC, Kerbis
Peterhans JC,
Agwanda B et al.

Uncovering cryptic diversity andrefugial persistence among small
mammal lineages across the Eastern
Afromontane biodiversity hotspot

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 71: 41-54

doi: 10.1016/j.
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United States, Kenya

DeSoto L, Varino F,
Andrade JP et al.

Different growth sensitivity to climateof the conifer Juniperus thurifera on
both sides of the Mediterranean Sea

International Journalof Biometeorology

doi: 10.1007/
s00484-014-0811-y

Portugal

Di Virgilio G & Laffan SW

Using maps of continuous
variation in species compositional
turnover to supplement uniform
polygon species range maps

International Journalof Geographical
Information Science
28(8): 1658-1673

doi: 10.1080/
13658816.
2013.871725

Australia

Dillon MO & Luebert F

Synopsis of Plazia Ruiz & Pav.
(Onoserideae, Asteraceae), including
a new species from northern Peru

PhytoKeys 34: 1-13

doi: 10.3897/
phytokeys.34.6151

United States,
Chile, Germany

Ekrem T, Kevan PG,
Woodcock TS et al.

The Most Northerly Black Witch(Ascalapha odorata): A Tropical
Moth in the Canadian Arctic

The Canadian Field
Naturalist 128: 77-79

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sfu.ca/cfn/index.
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Norway, Canada

Engler J, Rödder
D, Stiels D et al.

Suitable, reachable but not colonised:seasonal niche duality in an
endemic mountainous songbird

Journal of Ornithology
155(3): 657-669

doi: 10.1007/
s10336-014-1049-5

Germany

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Mammal species richness
and biogeographic structure
at the southern boundariesof the Nearctic region

Mammalia 78(2): 1-11

doi: 10.1515/
mammalia-2013-0057

MexicoEsperón-Rodríguez
M & Barradas VL

Ecophysiological vulnerability
to climate change: water stressresponses in four tree species
from the central mountainregion of Veracruz, Mexico

Regional Environmental
Changedoi: 10.1007/
s10113-014-0624-x

MexicoFeng X & Papeş M

Ecological niche modelling confirms
potential north-east range expansionof the nine-banded armadillo(Dasypus novemcinctus) in the USA

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12427

United States

Ficetola GF, RondininC, Katariya V et al.

Habitat availability for amphibians andextinction threat: a global analysis

Diversity andDistributions 21: 302-311

doi: 10.1111/
ddi.12296

Italy, France

FitzJohn RG, Pennell
MW, Zanne AE et al.

How much of the world is woody?

Journal of Ecology
102(5): 1266-1272

doi: 10.1111/13652745.12260

Canada, Australia, UnitedStates, Netherlands

Forasiepi AM, Soibelzon
LH, Gomez CS et al.

Carnivorans at the Great American
Biotic Interchange: new discoveries
from the northern neotropics

Die Naturwissenschaften

doi: 10.1007/
s00114-014-1237-4

Argentina, Panama,
Canada, Switzerland

Fourcade Y, Engler
JO, Rödder D et al.

Mapping Species Distributions withMAXENT Using a Geographically
Biased Sample of Presence Data: A
Performance Assessment of Methods
for Correcting Sampling Bias

PLoS ONE 9(5): e97122

doi: 10.1371/journal.
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France, Germany

Fritsch PW, Manchester
SR, Stone RD et al.

Northern Hemisphere originsof the amphi-Pacific tropicalplant family Symplocaceae

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/
jbi.12442

United States, South Africa

García Parisi PA, Lattanzi
FA, Grimoldi A A et al.

Multi-symbiotic systems:
functional implications of thecoexistence of grass-endophyte
and legume-rhizobia symbioses

Oikos

doi: 10.1111/
oik.01540

Argentina, Germany

García-Verdugo C

Character shift and habitatcolonization in widespread island taxa

Botanical Journal of
the Linnean Society
174(3): 399-411

doi: 10.1111/
boj.12126

United States, Spain

Glukhov AZ & Strelnikov II

Lamina shape variability in
species of the genus Ficus L. indifferent ecological conditions

Contemporary Problemsof Ecology 7(2): 210-220

doi: 10.1134/
S1995425514020048

UkraineGoatley CHR &Bellwood DR

Moving towards the equator: reverse
range shifts in two subtropicalreef fish species, Chromis nitida(Pomacentridae) and Pseudolabrus
guentheri (Labridae)

Marine Biodiversity
Records 7: e12

doi: 10.1017/
S1755267214000098

Australia

Gomez JJ & Cassini MH

Environmental predictors of habitat
suitability and biogeographicalrange of Franciscana dolphins(Pontoporia blainvillei)

Global Ecology andConservation 3: 90-99

doi: 10.1016/j.
gecco.2014.11.007

Argentina

González-Maya
JF, Castañeda F,
González R et al.

Distribution, Range Extension,
And Conservation Of The Endemic
Black-Headed Bushmaster(Lachesis Melanocephala) In
Costa Rica And Panama

HerpetologicalConservation and
Biology 9(2): 369-377

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Mexico, Costa Rica

Gross A, Holdenrieder
O, Pautasso M et al.

Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus, thecausal agent of European ash dieback

Molecular Plant
Pathology 15(1): 5-21

doi: 10.1111/
mpp.12073

Switzerland

Grossenbacher DL,
Veloz SD, & Sexton JP

Niche and range size patterns
suggest that speciation begins
in small, ecologically diverged
populations in North Americanmonkeyflowers (Mimulus spp.)

Evolution 68(5): 1270-80

doi: 10.1111/
evo.12355

United Statesbiodiversity science

AUTHORS
Escalante T, RodríguezTapia G, Linaje M et al.

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Guevara L, SánchezCordero V, LeónPaniagua L et al.

A new species of small-eared
shrew (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla,
Cryptotis ) from the Lacandonarain forest, Mexico

Journal of Mammalogy
95(4): 739-753

doi: 10.1644/
14-MAMM-A-018

Mexico, United States

Habel JC, Mulwa RK,
Gassert F et al.

Population signatures of large-scale,
long-term disjunction and small-scale,
short-term habitat fragmentationin an Afromontane forest bird

Heredity 113(3): 205-14

doi: 10.1038/
hdy.2014.15

Kenya, Germany, Poland,
United States, Belgium

Hafner MS, Hafner DJ,
Gonzáles EE et al.

Rediscovery of the pocket gopher
Orthogeomys lanius (Rodentia:
Geomyidae) in Veracruz, Mexico

Journal of Mammalogy
95(4): 792-802

doi: 10.1644/
13-MAMM-A-319

United States, Mexico

Halama M, Poliwoda A,
Jasicka-Misiak I et al.

Pholiotina cyanopus, a rare fungus
producing psychoactive tryptamines

Open Life Sciences 10(1)doi: 10.1515/
biol-2015-0005

PolandHalvorsen R, Mazzoni
S, Bryn A et al.

Opportunities for improved
distribution modelling practice
via a strict maximum likelihoodinterpretation of MaxEnt

Ecography

doi: 10.1111/
ecog.00565

NorwayHaszprunar G

A nomenclator of extant andfossil taxa of the Valvatidae(Gastropoda, Ectobranchia)

ZooKeys 377: 1-172

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.377.6032

Germany

Hendricks JR, Saupe
EE, Myers CE et al.

The Generification of the Fossil Record

Paleobiology
40(4): 511-528

doi: 10.1666/13076

United States

Hernández-Mejía BC,
Warren AD & LlorenteBousquets J

Distribution of Genus
Codatractus Lindsey, 1921
(Hesperiidae: Eudaminae)

Southwestern
Entomologist
39(4): 813-852

doi: 10.3958/
059.039.0415

Mexico, United States

Hidalgo-Galiana A,
Sánchez-Fernández
D, Bilton DT et al.

Thermal niche evolution andgeographical range expansion
in a species complex of western
Mediterranean diving beetles

BMC Evolutionary
Biology 14(1): 187

doi: 10.1186/
s12862-014-0187-y

Spain

Hipsley CA & Müller J

Relict Endemism of Extant
Rhineuridae (Amphisbaenia):
Testing for Phylogenetic Niche
Conservatism in the Fossil Record

Anatomical Record

doi: 10.1002/ar.22853

Germany

Hosner PA, SánchezGonzález LA,Peterson AT et al.

Climate-driven diversification
and Pleistocene refugia in
Philippine birds: evidence fromphylogeographic structure andpaleoenvironmental niche modeling

Evolution 68(9):2658-2674

doi: 10.1111/
evo.12459

United States, Mexico

Hustad VP, Kučera V,
Rybáriková N et al.

Geoglossum simile of North America
and Europe: distribution of awidespread earth tongue species
and designation of an epitype

Mycological Progress

doi: 10.1007/
s11557-014-0969-z

United States, Slovakia,
Czech Republic

Ibrahimi H, Gashi
A, Bilalli A et al.

Three new country records fromthe genus Limnephilus Leach,1815 (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae)
from the Republic of Kosovo

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2: e4140

doi: 10.3897/
BDJ.2.e4140

KosovoIosif, R Papeş M,
Samoilă C et al.

Climate-induced shifts in the niche
similarity of two related spadefoottoads (genus Pelobates)

Organisms Diversity& Evolution

doi: 10.1007/
s13127-014-0181-7

Romania, United States

Jansen S, Choat B,
Scholz A et al.

How drought and deciduousness
shape xylem plasticity in three
Costa Rican woody plant species

IAWA Journal
35(4): 337-355

doi:
10.1163/2294193200000070

Germany, Australia

Jordan GJ, Carpenter
RJ, & Brodribb TJ

Using fossil leaves as evidence
for open vegetation

Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology
395: 168-175

doi: 10.1016/j.
palaeo.2013.12.035

Australia

Jordan GJ, Carpenter
RJ, Koutoulis A et al.

Environmental adaptation instomatal size independent of
the effects of genome size

The New Phytologist

doi: 10.1111/
nph.13076

Australia

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Bird and mammal species compositionin distinct geographic regions andtheir relationships with environmental
factors across multiple spatial scales

Ecology and Evolution
4(10): 1963-71

doi: 10.1002/
ece3.1072

United Kingdom, Israel

Kindt R, Lillesø J-PB,
van Breugel P et al.

Correspondence in forest species
composition between the Vegetation
Map of Africa and higher resolution
maps for seven African countries

Applied Vegetation
Science 17(1): 162-171

doi: 10.1111/
avsc.12055

Kenya, Denmark,Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda,
Tanzania, Rwanda

Kobelkowsky-Vidrio
T, Ríos-Muñoz C, &Navarro-Sigüenza AG

Biodiversity and biogeographyof the avifauna of the Sierra
Madre Occidental, Mexico

Biodiversity andConservation

doi: 10.1007/s10531014-0706-6

MexicoKolesik P & Butterill PT

New gall midges (Diptera:
Cecidomyiidae) from
Papua New Guinea

Austral Entomology

doi: 10.1111/
aen.12095

Australia, Czech Republic,
Papua New Guinea

Kostikova A, Litsios
G, Burgy S et al.

Scale-dependent adaptive evolution
and morphological convergence
to climatic niche in Californian
eriogonoids (Polygonaceae)

Journal of Biogeography
41(7): 1326-1337

doi: 10.1111/
jbi.12294

Switzerland, Spain

Kostikova, A, Salamin,
N, & Pearman, PB

The role of climatic tolerances andseed traits in reduced extinction
rates of temperate polygonaceae

Evolution 68(7): 1856-70

doi: 10.1111/
evo.12400

Switzerland

Kougioumoutzis
K & Tiniakou A

Ecological factors driving plant
species diversity in the South
Aegean Volcanic Arc and othercentral Aegean islands

Plant Ecology &Diversity: 1-14

doi: 10.1080/
17550874.
2013.866989

GreeceKougioumoutzis
K, Tiniakou A,
Georgiou O et al.

Contribution To the Flora of theSouth Aegean Volcanic Arc: Kimolos
Island (Kiklades, Greece)

Edinburgh Journal of
Botany 71(02): 135-160

doi: 10.1017/
S0960428614000055

GreeceKristinsson H,Heiðmarsson S& Hansen E.S

Lichens From Iceland In The
Collection Of Svanhildur Svane

Botanica Lithuanica
20(1): 14-18

doi: 10.2478/
botlit-2014-0002

Iceland, Denmark

Laptikhovsky VV

Does starfish predation determine
spawning seasonality in thewhelk Buccinum undatum in
the Gulf of St Lawrence?

Journal of Molluscan
Studies 80(2): 219-221

doi: 10.1093/
mollus/eyu010

United Kingdom

Lawson AM & Weir JT

Latitudinal gradients in climaticniche evolution accelerate trait
evolution at high latitudes

Ecology Letters

doi: 10.1111/
ele.12346

CanadaLe Roux JJ, Strasberg
D, Rouget M et al.

Relatedness defies biogeography:
the tale of two island endemics(Acacia heterophylla and A. koa)

The New Phytologist
204(1): 230-42

doi: 10.1111/
nph.12900

South Africa, France, South
Africa, United States

Lehmann GUC, Frommolt
K-H, Lehmann AW et al.

Baseline data for automatedacoustic monitoring of Orthoptera
in a Mediterranean landscape,the Hymettos, Greece

Journal of Insect
Conservation
18(5): 909-925

doi: 10.1007/s10841014-9700-2

Germany

Letardi A

Note on some antlions from
Mozambique (Neuroptera:
Myrmeleontidae)

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2: e1050

doi: 10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1050

Italy

Licona-Vera Y &Ornelas JF

Genetic, Ecological and Morphological
Divergence between Populations of
the Endangered Mexican Sheartail
Hummingbird (Doricha eliza)

PLoS ONE 9(7): e101870

doi: 10.1371/journal.
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MexicoLinse K, Jackson JA,
Malyutina MV et al.

Shallow-Water Northern Hemisphere
Jaera (Crustacea, Isopoda, Janiridae)
Found on Whale Bones in the Southern
Ocean Deep Sea: Ecology and
Description of Jaera tyleri sp. nov.

PLoS ONE 9(3): e93018

doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0093018

United Kingdom,
Russia, Germany

Lira-Noriega A &Manthey JD

Relationship of genetic diversity andniche centrality: a survey and analysis

Evolution 68(4): 1082-93

doi: 10.1111/
evo.12343

United Statesbiodiversity science

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Lira-Noriega A &Peterson AT

Range-wide ecological nichecomparisons of parasite, hosts
and dispersers in a vectorborne plant parasite system

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/
jbi.12302

United States

Lira-Noriega A& Soberón J

The relationship among biodiversity,
governance, wealth, and scientificcapacity at a country level:
Disaggregation and prioritization

Ambio

doi: 10.1007/
s13280-014-0581-0

United States

Lira-Noriega A, ToroNunez O, Oaks JR et al.

The roles of history and ecology
in chloroplast phylogeographic
patterns of the bird-dispersed plantparasite Phoradendron californicum(Viscaceae) in the Sonoran Desert

American Journalof Botany

doi: 10.3732/
ajb.1400277

United States

Liston A, Cronn R& Ashman T-L

Fragaria: A genus with deep historicalroots and ripe for evolutionary
and ecological insights

American Journal of
Botany 101: 1-14

doi: 10.3732/
ajb.1400140

United States

Liu H & Osborne CP

Water relations traits of C4 grasses
depend on phylogenetic lineage,
photosynthetic pathway, andhabitat water availability

Journal of Experimental
Botanydoi: 10.1093/
jxb/eru430

United Kingdom, China

López-Uribe MM, Zamudio
KR, Cardoso CF et al.

Climate, physiological tolerance andsex-biased dispersal shape genetic
structure of Neotropical orchid bees

Molecular Ecology
23(7): 1874-90

doi: 10.1111/
mec.12689

United States, Brazil

Louy D, Habel JC,
Abadjiev S et al.

Molecules and models indicate
diverging evolutionary effects fromparallel altitudinal range shifts in
two mountain Ringlet butterflies

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society112(3): 569-583

doi: 10.1111/bij.12240

Germany, Bulgaria,
Romania, Hungary

Malpica A & Ornelas JF

Post-glacial northward expansion
and genetic differentiation between
migratory and sedentary populationsof the broad-tailed hummingbird(Selasphorus platycercus)

Molecular Ecology
23(2): 435-452

doi: 10.1111/
mec.12614

MexicoMcDonnel A

Non-twining milkweed vines of
Oklahoma: an overview of Matelea
biflora and Matelea cynanchoides

Oklahoma Native
Plant Record 14

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vines_of_Oklahoma_an_
overview_of_Matelea_
biflora_and_Matelea_
cynanchoides

United States

McMichael CNH, Palace
MW & Golightly M

Bamboo-dominated forests andpre-Columbian earthwork formations
in south-western Amazonia

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12325

United States

Meseguer AS, Lobo
JM, Ree R et al.

Integrating Fossils, Phylogenies, andNiche Models into Biogeography toreveal ancient evolutionary history:
the Case of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)

Systematic Biology

doi: 10.1093/
sysbio/syu088

Spain, France, UnitedStates, United Kingdom

Messias PA, Vidal Jr
JD, Koch I et al.

Host specificity and experimental
assessment of the early
establishment of the mistletoe
Phoradendron crassifolium (Pohl
ex DC.) Eichler (Santalaceae)
in a fragment of Atlantic
Forest in southeast Brazil

Acta Botanica Brasilica
28(4): 577-582

doi: 10.1590/010233062014abb3523

BrazilMifsud S

A Study of the Genus Persicaria Miller(Polygonaceae) in the Maltese Islands

The Central
Mediterranean Naturalist
5(3-4): 25-26

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Malta

Mimura M, Mishima
M, Lascoux M et al.

Range shift and introgression of therear and leading populations in two
ecologically distinct Rubus species

BMC Evolutionary
Biology 14(1): 209

doi: 10.1186/
s12862-014-0209-9

Japan, Sweden, China

Mogni VY, Oakley
LJ & Prado DE

The distribution of woody legumes
in neotropical dry forests: The
Pleistocene arc theory 20 years on

Edinburgh Journalof Botany: 1-26

doi: 10.1017/
S0960428614000298

Argentina

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Trade-offs between constitutive
and induced defences drive
geographical and climatic clines
in pine chemical defences

Ecology Letters
17(5): 537-546

doi: 10.1111/
ele.12253

United States, Spain

Muscarella R, Galante PJ,
Soley-Guardia M et al.

ENMeval: An R package for conducting
spatially independent evaluations andestimating optimal model complexity
for Maxent ecological niche models

Methods in Ecology
and Evolution

doi: 10.1111/2041210X.12261

United States

Negret PJ & Laverde-R O

The enigmatic Black Tinamou:
Do distribution, climate, andvocalizations reveal morethan one species?

The Auk 132(1): 132-139

doi: 10.1642/
AUK-14-183.1

Colombia

Novillo A & Ojeda RA

Elevation patterns in rodent diversity
in the dry Andes: disentangling therole of environmental factors

Journal of Mammalogy
95(1): 99-107

doi: 10.1644/
13-MAMM-A-086.1

Argentina

Orlova-Bienkowskaja
MJ & Bieńkowski A

Paridea angulicollis (Motschulsky,1854) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
Galerucinae) is a new genus andspecies for Russia Paridea angulicollis(Motschulsky, 1854) (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)

Caucasian Entomological
Bulletin 10(1): 85-87

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RussiaOrtego J, Bonal R,
Muñoz A et al.

Living on the edge: the role ofgeography and environment
in structuring genetic
variation in the southernmost
populations of a tropical oak

Plant Biology

doi: 10.1111/
plb.12272

Spain

Ortego J, Guglielmone
AA & Sork VL

Climatically stable landscapes
predict patterns of genetic
structure and admixture in the
Californian canyon live oak

Journal of Biogeography

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12419

Spain, United States

Palazzesi L, Barreda
VD, Cuitiño JI et al.

Fossil pollen records indicate that
Patagonian desertification was not
solely a consequence of Andean uplift

Nature Communications
5: 3558

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Argentina, United
Kingdom, Brazil

Pappalardo P, Pringle
JM, Wares JP et al.

The location, strength, andmechanisms behind marine
biogeographic boundaries of theeast coast of North America

Ecography 38

doi: 10.1111/
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United States

Pelayo-Villamil P,
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Global diversity patterns offreshwater fishes - potential
victims of their own success

Diversity andDistributions
21(3): 345-356

doi: 10.1111/
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Colombia,Spain, UnitedStates, Italy, France

Pérez-Barros P, Lovrich
GA, Calcagno JA et al.

Is Munida gregaria (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Munididae) a truly
transpacific species?

Polar Biology 37(10):1413-1420

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Argentina

Pérez F, Hinojosa
LF, Ossa CG et al.

Decoupled evolution of foliar
freezing resistance, temperatureniche and morphological leaf
traits in Chilean Myrceugenia

Journal of Ecology
102(4): 972-980

doi: 10.1111/13652745.12261

Chile

Perktaş U, Gür H,Sağlam İK et al.

Climate-driven range shifts anddemographic events over the historyof Kruper's Nuthatch Sitta krueperi

Bird Study 62(1): 14-28

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2014.977220

United States,
Turkey, Mexico

Phartyal SS, Kondo
T, Fuji A et al.

A comprehensive view of
epicotyl dormancy in Viburnum
furcatum: combining field studies
with laboratory studies using
temperature sequences

Seed Science Research24(04): 281-292

doi: 10.1017/
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Japan, India, United States

Pironon S, Villellas
J, Morris WF, DoakDF, & García MB

Do geographic, climatic or
historical ranges differentiate theperformance of central versus
peripheral populations?

Global Ecology
and Biogeography
24(6): 611-620

doi:10.1111/
geb.12263

Spain, Sweden,
United Statesbiodiversity science

AUTHORS
Moreira X, Mooney KA,
Rasmann S et al.

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESPolgar G, Zane L.,
Babbucci M et al.

Phylogeography and demographic
history of two widespread
Indo-Pacific mudskippers(Gobiidae: Periophthalmus)

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution
73: 161-176

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2014.01.014

Brunei Darussalam,
Italy, Switzerland

Quintero I, GonzálezCaro S, Zalamea
P-C & Cadena CD

Asynchrony of Seasons: Genetic
Differentiation Associatedwith Geographic Variationin Climatic Seasonality andReproductive Phenology.

The American Naturalist
184(3): 352-363

doi:10.1086/677261

Colombia, Panama

Richter D, Matuła
J & Pietryka M

The Northernmost Populationsof Tetraspora Gelatinosa(Chlorophyta) from Spitsbergen

Polish Polar Research
35(3): 521-538

doi:10.2478/
popore-2014-0027

PolandRodríguez-Gómez
F & Ornelas JF

Genetic divergence of the
Mesoamerican azure-crowned
hummingbird ( Amazilia cyanocephala,
Trochilidae) across the MotaguaPolochic-Jocotán fault system

Journal of Zoological
Systematics andEvolutionary Research
52(2): 142-153

doi:10.1111/
jzs.12047

MexicoRomiguier J Gayral P,
Ballenghien M et al.

Comparative population
genomics in animals uncovers thedeterminants of genetic diversity

Nature 515: 261–263

doi:10.1038/
nature13685

France, Switzerland, UnitedStates, United Kingdom

Rubel F, Brugger K,
Monazahian M et al.

The first German map ofgeoreferenced ixodid tick locations

Parasites & Vectors
7(1): 477

doi:10.1186/s13071014-0477-7

Austria, Germany

Ruiz-Sanchez E& Ornelas JF

Phylogeography of Liquidambar
styraciflua (Altingiaceae) in
Mesoamerica: survivors of a Neogene
widespread temperate forest (orcloud forest) in North America?

Ecology and Evolution
4(4): 311-28

doi:10.1002/ece3.938

MexicoSackett LC, Seglund
A, Guralnick RP et al.

Evidence for two subspecies ofGunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys
gunnisoni), and the generalimportance of the subspecies concept

Biological Conservation
174: 1-11

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.03.010

United States

Salas JA, Burneo SF,
Viteri HF & Carvajal MRFirst record of the pale-faced
bat Phylloderma stenops
Peters 1865 (Chiroptera:
Phyllostomidae) in the provinceof Guayas, Southwest Ecuador

Check List 10(5):1218-1222

doi: 10.15560/
10.5.1218

EcuadorSandel M, Rhode
FC & Harris PM

Interspecific relationships
and the evolution of sexual
dimorphism in pygmy sunfishes(Centrarchidae: Elassoma)

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution
77: 166-176

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2014.04.018

United States

Scarponi D, Huntley JW,
Capraro L & Raffi S

Stratigraphic paleoecology of theValle di Manche section (Crotone
Basin, Italy): A candidate GSSPof the Middle Pleistocene

Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology
402: 30-43

doi:10.1016/j.
palaeo.2014.02.032

Italy, United States

Schwery O, Onstein
RE, BouchenakKhelladi Y et al.

As old as the mountains: theradiations of the Ericaceae

The New Phytologist

doi:10.1111/
nph.13234

Switzerland, New Zealand

Schwinn M, Türkay
M & Sonnewald M

Decapod fauna of the Helgoland
trench (Crustacea) a long-term
study in a biodiversity hotspot

Marine Biodiversity
44(4): 491-517

doi:10.1007/s12526014-0217-4

Germany

Sepúlveda D, Villalobos
E & Espinosa H

New record of Malthopsis gnoma(Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae)
in the southern Gulf of Mexico

Marine Biodiversity
Records, 7, e19doi:10.1017/
S1755267214000104

MexicoSigel EM, Windham
MD & Pryer KM

Evidence for reciprocal origins
in Polypodium hesperium(Polypodiaceae): A fern model system
for investigating how multiple origins
shape allopolyploid genomes

American Journalof Botany 101(9):1476-1485

doi:10.3732/
ajb.1400190

United States

Silva DP, Vilela B, De
Marco P & Nemésio A

Using Ecological Niche Models andNiche Analyses to UnderstandSpeciation Patterns: The Case of
Sister Neotropical Orchid Bees

PLoS ONE 9(11):e113246.

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0113246

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESPatterns and processes inthe distribution of European
centipedes (Chilopoda)

Journal of Biogeography
42(6): 1018-1028

doi:10.1111/jbi.12463

GreeceŠmarda P, Bureš P,
Horová L et al.

Ecological and evolutionary
significance of genomic GC
content diversity in monocots

Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences of the UnitedStates of America
111(39): eE4096–102

doi:10.1073/
pnas.1321152111

Czech Republic, United
Kingdom, Australia,
South Africa, Italy

Solhjouy-Fard S& Sarafrazi A

Potential impacts of climatechange on distribution range of
Nabis pseudoferus and N. palifer(Hemiptera: Nabidae) in Iran

Entomological Science17(3): 283-292

doi:10.1111/
ens.12064

Iran

Sosnovsky Y

Microscopical investigation of theleaf architecture in greenhousecultivated Ficus (Moraceae)

Plant Systematics
and Evolution

doi:10.1007/
s00606-014-1184-8

UkraineSrivastava G &Mehrotra RC

Phytogeographical implication of
Bridelia Will. (Phyllanthaceae) fossil
leaf from the late Oligocene of India

PLoS ONE 9(10): e111140

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0111140

India

Steidinger BS, Turner BL,
Corrales A & Dalling JW

Variability in potential to exploit
different soil organic phosphorus
compounds among tropicalmontane tree species

Functional Ecology
29(1): 121-130

doi:10.1111/13652435.12325

United States, Panama

Strona G, Fattorini S,
Montano S et al.

ECo: A new measure evaluating thedegree of consistency between
environmental factors and spatial
arrangement of species assemblages

Ecological Indicators
52: 66-74

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolind.2014.11.033

Italy, Portugal

Sutkowska A,
Pasierbiński A, Warzecha
T, Mandal A & Mitka J

Refugial Pattern of Bromus
Erectus in Central Europe Basedon ISSR Fingerprinting

Acta Biologica
Cracoviensia Series
Botanica: 107-119

doi:10.2478/
abcsb-2013-0026

PolandTarroso P, Pereira RJ,
Martínez-Freiría F et al.

Hybridization at an ecotone:
ecological and genetic barriers
between three Iberian vipers

Molecular Ecology
23(5): 1108-23

doi:10.1111/
mec.12671

Portugal

Teixeira M, Vechio FD,
Neto AM & Rodrigues MT

A New Two-Pored Amphisbaena
Linnaeus, 1758, from
Western Amazonia, Brazil(Amphisbaenia: Reptilia)

South American
Journal of Herpetology
9(1): 62-74

doi:10.2994/
SAJH-D-14-00004.1

BrazilThode VA, Silva-Arias
GA, Turchetto C et al.

Genetic diversity and ecologicalniche modelling of the restricted
Recordia reitzii (Verbenaceae) fromsouthern Brazilian Atlantic forest

Botanical Journal of
the Linnean Society
176(3): 332-348

doi:10.1111/
boj.12202

BrazilTodou G, Onana
JM, Akoa A et al.

The Ecological Niche Of Dacryodes
buettneri (Burseraceae), A
Timber Tree In Central Africa

Journal of Tropical Forest
Science 26(3): 420-427

http://www.
frim.gov.my/v1/
JTFSOnline/jtfs/
v26n3/420-427.pdf

Cameroon, France

Trainor AM & Schmitz OJ

Infusing considerations oftrophic dependencies into
species distribution modelling

Ecology Letters
17(12): 1507-1517

doi:10.1111/ele.12372

United States

Van Zonneveld
MJ, Castañeda N,
Scheldeman X et al.

Application of consensus theory
to formalize expert evaluations ofplant species distribution models

Applied Vegetation
Science 17(3): 528-542

doi:10.1111/
avsc.12081

Belgium, Costa Rica,
Colombia, Kenya,
Czech Republic

Velez-Liendo X, Strubbe
D & Matthysen E

Effects of variable selection
on modelling habitat andpotential distribution of the
Andean bear in Bolivia

Ursus 24(2): 127-138

doi:10.2192/URSUSD-12-00027R4.1

Bolivia, Belgium

Velle LG, Nilsen LS,
Norderhaug A & Vandvik V

Does prescribed burning resultin biotic homogenization ofcoastal heathlands?

Global Change Biology
20(5): 1429-40

doi:10.1111/
gcb.12448

NorwayVieira RP & Cunha MR

In situ observation of chimaerid
species in the Gorringe Bank:
new distribution records for thenorth-east Atlantic Ocean

Journal of Fish Biology
85(3): 927-32

doi:10.1111/jfb.12444

Portugal, United Kingdom

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Simaiakis SM & Strona G

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Visser V & Molofsky J

Ecological niche differentiation ofpolyploidization is not supported byenvironmental differences among
species in a cosmopolitan grass genus

American Journal of
Botany 102(1): 36-49

doi:10.3732/
ajb.1400432

South Africa, United States

Voshell SM & Hilu KW

Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae):
biogeography, molecular dating andthe role of floret structure in dispersal

Molecular Ecology
23(1): 212-24

doi:10.1111/
mec.12575

United States

Vukov TD, Cvijanovi M,
Wielstra B & Kalezi ML

The Roles of Phylogeny and Climate
in Shaping Variation in Life-History
Traits of the Newt Genus Triturus(Caudata, The roles of phylogeny
and climate in shaping variation inlife-history traits of the newt genus
Triturus (Caudata, Salamandridae)

Annales Zoologici
Fennici 51(5): 445-456

doi: 10.5735/
086.051.0505

Serbia, Netherlands

Wasowicz P, Pasierbiński
A, Przedpelska-Wasowicz
EM & Kristinsson H

Distribution patterns in thenative vascular flora of Iceland

PLoS ONE 9(7): e102916

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0102916

PolandWatson S.-A, Morley
SA, Bates AE et al.

Low global sensitivity of metabolic
rate to temperature in calcified
marine invertebrates

Oecologia 174(1): 45-54

doi:10.1007/s00442013-2767-8

United Kingdom,
Australia, Singapore

Wetterer JK

Geographic distribution of
Gnamptogenys hartmani(Hymenoptera, Formicidae),an agro-predator that attacks
fungus-growing ants

Terrestrial Arthropod
Reviews 7(2-4): 147-157

doi: 10.1163/
18749836-07021078

United States

Wetterer JK

Geographic distributionof Strumigenys louisianae(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Terrestrial Arthropod
Reviews 7(2-4): 159-170

doi: 10.1163/
18749836-07021080

United States

Wielstra B, Sillero N,
Vörös J & Arntzen JW

The distribution of the crested andmarbled newt species (Amphibia:
Salamandridae: Triturus) – anaddition to the New Atlas ofAmphibians and Reptiles of Europe

Amphibia-Reptilia
35(3): 376-381

doi: 10.1163/
15685381-00002960

United Kingdom,
Netherlands,
Portugal, Hungary

Wilk M, Pawłowska
J & Wrzosek M

Wentiomyces sp. from plant litteron poor fen in northeastern Poland

Acta Mycologica
49(2): 237-247

doi: 10.5586/
am.2014.021

PolandWillis CG, Davis CC,
Xi Z & Franzone B.

Community assembly meetsbiogeography: Malpighiaceae
and the origin of seasonally dry
tropical forest of Mexico

Frontier in Genetics 5

doi:10.3389/
fgene.2014.00433

United States

Willis CG, Hall J-C, Rubio
de Casas R et al.

Diversification and the evolutionof dispersal ability in the tribe
Brassiceae (Brassicaceae)

Annals of Botany
114(8): 1675-1686

doi:10.1093/
aob/mcu196

United States,
Canada, Spain

Wilson GW, Rentz
DC & Venter FFirst record of the larvae of“Hippotion rosetta” (Swinhoe,1892) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
feeding on the foliage of nepenthes(Nepenthaceae) in Cape York
Peninsula, Queensland

Australian Entomologist
41(4): 203

http://search.informit.
com.au/documentSu
mmary;dn=88095806
4256642;res=IELHSS

Australia

Wright, A. N., Hijmans,
R. J., Schwartz, M. W., &Shaffer, H. B. (2014).

Multiple sources of uncertainty affectmetrics for ranking conservation
risk under climate change

Diversity andDistributions
21(1): 111–122

doi:10.1111/
ddi.12257

United States

Yañez-Arenas C, Peterson
AT, Mokondoko P et al.

The Use of Ecological Niche
Modeling to Infer Potential
Risk Areas of Snakebite in the
Mexican State of Veracruz

PLoS ONE 9(6): e100957

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0100957

Mexico, United States

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examplesTOOLS TO STREAMLINE DATA QUALITY & CURATIONTEXT-MINING FOR PLACE NAMES

Candela L, Castelli D, Coro G et al. (2014) An infrastructureoriented approach for supporting biodiversity research.
Ecological Informatics 26(2):162-172. doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2014.07.006
Author country: Italy
Research funding: European Union 7th Framework
Programme for Research and Technological Development

Singh G & de By RA (2015) Spatial Extent Models for Natural
Language Phrases Involving Directional Containment.
Transactions in GIS 19: 202–224. doi:10.1111/tgis.12105
Author country: Netherlands

The authors introduce a set of tools developed by
the D4Science Data Infrastructure that supportacquisition and preparation of species occurrence
data from GBIF, OBIS and other sources. This suiteseeks to reduce the time that researchers spend inassessing the quality of data as well as curating them.

The presence of millions of non-geocoded records
mediated by GBIF sparked this exploration of
assigning spatial extents to gazeteer-style names
like ‘central northern California’. Using the twovolume Ornithological Gazetteer of Brazil (Paynter
and Traylor 1991), the authors compared and tested
spatial interpretations of multiple natural language
phrases in hope of deriving consistent, recommended
approaches.

CLEAN GLOBAL DATA MAY MATTER MORE THANCOMPLEX MODELSIMPROVING GEOREFERENCING OF SPECIMEN DATAWITH PREVIOUSLY DIGITIZED COLLECTIONS

García-Roselló E, Guisande C, Manjarrés-Hernández A etal. (2014) Can we derive macroecological patterns fromprimary Global Biodiversity Information Facility data? Global
Ecology and Biogeography 24(3): 335-347. doi:10.1111/
geb.12260
Author countries: Spain, Colombia, United States
Research funding: ENDESAThe lack of geographic precision represents amajor challenge in efforts to unlock historic natural
history collections. Here the authors detail how theNetherlands’ Naturalis adopted a consistent approachfor resolving the challenges commonly presented
by the structured but poorly articulated legacy datacontained on collectors’ specimen cards for fields like
‘Town/City’, ‘Province/State’ and ‘Coordinates’. Central
to the approach is the use of existing GBIF-mediatedoccurrences as a domain-specific knowledge basethat improves the quality and accuracy of proposed
georeferences while significantly decreasing thenumber of unlocatable records.

data management

To understand the impact of data sampling biases
and quality concerns in global-scale models, thisteam used all available GBIF-mediated data forfish species from marine-only orders to compare
four common procedures. Their findings suggest
that, as long as researchers clean the original data,
correct for autocorrelation and account for obvious
underestimations in species richness, the work of
improving both data quantity and quality may matter
more in accurately predicting distributions than thedevelopment of sophisticated mathematical models.

Van Erp M, Hensel R, Ceolin D & van der Meij M (2014)
Georeferencing Animal Specimen Datasets. Transactions in
GIS 19(4): 563-581. doi:10.1111/tgis.12110
Author country: Netherlands
Research funding: European Union 7th Framework
Programme for Research and Technological Development

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Candela L, Castelli
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An infrastructure-oriented approachfor supporting biodiversity research

Ecological Informatics
26(2): 162-172

doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2014.07.006

Italy

García-Roselló E,
Guisande C, ManjarrésHernández A et al.

Can we derive macroecologicalpatterns from primary Global
Biodiversity Information Facility data?

Global Ecology
and Biogeography
24(3): 335-347

doi:10.1111/
geb.12260

Spain, Colombia,
United States

Guralnick R, Conlin
T, Deck J et al.

The Trouble with Triplets in
Biodiversity Informatics: A
Data-Driven Case against
Current Identifier Practices

PLoS ONE 9(12): e114069

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0114069

United States

Lin Y-P, Deng D,
Lin W-C et al.

Uncertainty analysis of crowdsourced and professionally collected
field data used in species distribution
models of Taiwanese moths

Biological Conservation
181: 102-110

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.11.012

Taiwan, Netherlands,
Australia, Germany, France

Lucarini D, GiganteD, Landucci F et al.

The anArchive taxonomic
Checklist for Italian botanical databanking and vegetation analysis:
Theoretical basis and advantages

Plant Biosystems - AnInternational Journal
Dealing with all Aspectsof Plant Biology 1-8

doi:10.1080/11263
504.2014.984010

Italy, Czech Republic

Mathew C, Güntsch
A, Obst M et al.

A semi-automated workflow
for biodiversity data retrieval,cleaning, and quality control

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2(2): e4221

doi:10.3897/
BDJ.2.e4221

Germany, Sweden,
Italy, United Kingdom,
Finland, Netherlands

Miller JT & JolleyRogers G

Correcting the disconnect
between phylogenetics andbiodiversity informatics

Zootaxa 3754(2): 195

doi:10.11646/
zootaxa.3754.2.8

Australia

Ningthoujam SS,
Choudhury MD,
Potsangbam KS et al.

NoSQL Data Model for Semi-automatic
Integration of Ethnomedicinal
Plant Data from Multiple Sources

Phytochemical Analysis
25(6): 495-507

doi:10.1002/pca.2520

India, United Kingdom,
Malaysia

Rao T & Rajinikanth TV

A Hybrid Random Forest based
Support Vector Machine Classification
supplemented by boosting

Global Journal ofComputer Science andTechnology: C Softwareand Data Engineering,14(1): 43-53

https://
globaljournals.org/
GJCST_Volume14/2A-hybrid-RandomForest-basedSupport-Vector.pdf

India

Rao T & Rajinikanth TV

Supervised Classification of
Remote Sensed data Using
Support Vector Machine

Global Journal ofComputer Scienceand Technology: C
Software and Data
Engineering, 14(1).

https://
globaljournals.org/
GJCST_Volume14/5SupervisedClassification-ofRemote-Sensed-data.
pdf

India

Singh G & de By RA

Spatial Extent Models for Natural
Language Phrases Involving
Directional Containment.

Transactions in GIS
19: 202–224

doi:10.1111/
tgis.12105

Netherlands

Thomas KA, Fornwall MD,
Weltzin JF & Griffis RB

Organization of marine phenology
data in support of planningand conservation in oceanand coastal ecosystems

Ecological Informatics
24: 169-176

doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2014.08.007

United States

Van Erp M, Hensel R,
Ceolin D & van der Meij M

Georeferencing AnimalSpecimen Datasets.

Transactions in GIS
19(4): 563-581

doi:10.1111/
tgis.12110

Netherlands

Walls RL, Guralnick
R, Deck J et al.

Meeting report: advancing practicalapplications of biodiversity ontologies

Standards in Genomic
Sciences 9(1): 17

doi:10.1186/19443277-9-17

United States, Germany,
French Polynesia,
United Kingdom

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bibliography
TITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Alonso P & Iriondo JM

URJC GB dataset: Communitybased seed bank of Mediterranean
high-mountain and semi-arid
plant species at Universidad
Rey Juan Carlos (Spain).

PhytoKeys 35: 57-72

doi:10.3897/
phytokeys.35.6746

Spain

Cally S, Solbès P, Grosso
B & Murienne J

An occurence records databaseof French Guiana harvestmen(Arachnida, Opiliones)

Biodiversity DataJournal
2(2): e4244

doi: 10.3897/
BDJ.2.e4244

FranceCamacho A, Dorda
B & Rey I

Iberian Peninsula and Balearic
Island Bathynellacea (Crustacea,
Syncarida) database

ZooKeys 386: 1-20

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.386.6296

Spain

Decker P, Reip HS& Voigtländer K

Millipedes and centipedes inGerman greenhouses (Myriapoda:
Diplopoda, Chilopoda)

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2:e1066

doi:10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1066

Germany

Díaz A, Bover P& Alcover J

Fossil Vertebrate Database from
Cova des Pas de Vallgornera(Llucmajor, Mallorca)

International Journalof Speleology: 43(2)doi: 10.5038/1827806X.43.2.10

Spain

Galicia D, Pulido-Flores
G, Miranda R et al.

Hidalgo Fishes: Dataset on freshwater
fishes of Hidalgo state (Mexico)in the MZNA fish collection of the
University of Navarra (Spain)

ZooKeys 403: 67-109

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.403.7149

Spain, Mexico

Griswold T, Gonzalez
V & Ikerd H

AnthWest, occurrence records for wool
carder bees of the genus Anthidium(Hymenoptera, Megachilidae,
Anthidiini) in the Western Hemisphere

ZooKeys 408: 31-49

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.408.5633

United States

Groom QJ

The distribution of the vascular plantson the North Frisian Island, Amrum

Biodiversity Data
Journal (2) e1108

doi: 10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1108

Belgium

Monteiro M, Reino
L, Beja P et al.

The collection and database ofBirds of Angola hosted at IICT(Instituto de Investigação Científica
Tropical), Lisboa, Portugal

ZooKeys 387: 89-99

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.387.6412

Portugal, South
Africa, Nigeria

Morales Rozo A, Valencia
F, Acosta A & Parra J

Birds of Antioquia: Georeferenced
database of specimens from theColección de Ciencias Naturales
del Museo Universitario de la
Universidad de Antioquia (MUA)

ZooKeys 410: 95-103

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.410.7109

Colombia

Pérez-Luque AJ, Bonet
FJ, Pérez-Pérez R et al.

Sinfonevada: Dataset of
Floristic diversity in Sierra
Nevada forests (SE Spain)

PhytoKeys 35: 1-15

doi: 10.3897/
phytokeys.35.6363

Spain

Piazza P, BłażewiczPaszkowycz M,
Ghiglione C et al.

Distributional records of Ross
Sea (Antarctica) Tanaidacea frommuseum samples stored in thecollections of the Italian National
Antarctic Museum (MNA) and the New
Zealand National Institute of Water
and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

ZooKeys 451: 49-60

doi:10.3897
zookeys.451.8373

Italy, Poland, New Zealand

Rios P & Cristobo J

Antarctic Porifera database fromthe Spanish benthic expeditions

ZooKeys 401: 1–10

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.401.5522

Spain

Schweiger O, Harpke A,
Wiemers M & Settele J

CLIMBER: Climatic nichecharacteristics of thebutterflies in Europe

ZooKeys 367: 65-84

doi: 10.3897/
zookeys.367.6185

Germany

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GBIF as a research infrastructure
We conclude this year’s Science Review with peer-reviewed papers that, rather than applying data
accessed and delivered through GBIF, describe or compare elements of the network as a data andresearch infrastructure. Where previous years’ accounts of these ‘GBIF discussed’ papers tended tofocus on forward-looking plans for the emerging biodiversity facility, scientists and researchers bothwithin and beyond biological domains now frequently mark the example that GBIF offers—be it in thedevelopment of standards, tools, data models or workflows­—while seeking to address challenges andseek relevant precedents in the era of big data.

examplesTOWARD AN OPEN-ACCESS MODEL FOR
ECOLOGICAL MODELS
Bonet FJ, Pérez-Pérez R, Benito BM et al. (2014)
Documenting, storing, and executing models in Ecology: A
conceptual framework and real implementation in a globalchange monitoring program. Environmental Modelling &Software 52: 192-199. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.027
Author country: Spain
Research funding: Andalusian Regional Government

Modelling and data processing are now an inherent
part of ecological research, but guidance on bestpractices and analytical procedures around the
documentation, storage or operation of suchwork is largely absent. The Spanish authors here
describe ModeleR, a workflow-based tool used in anenvironmental monitoring programme in the Sierra
Nevada region. By adopting an open access approachto data publication modelled on GBIF, they propose toextend the tool’s collaborative utility through linked
and federated repositories that can be shared andeven executed by other researchers.

CULTIVATING LONG-TERM RESEARCH VALUE
THROUGH OPEN ACCESS DATA
Costello MJ, Appeltans W, Bailly N et al. (2013) Strategies
for the sustainability of online open-access biodiversity
databases. Biological Conservation 173:155-165.
doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.042
Author countries: New Zealand, Belgium, Germany,
Netherlands, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom
Research funding: European Commission 7th Framework
Programme

Calling attention to the fact that biodiversity data
gathered on the strength of research funding ‘often
stagnate when project funding expired’, the authors
explore the critical roles that collaborative data

infrastructures can play in preserving the value of
research. With the unique scientific insights possible
from massive global databases only now beginningto emerge, they suggest that scientific and academic
communities and their supporers should fully
acknowledge the academic and scientific value ofcontributing to open-access efforts.

DESCRIBING THE NATIONAL BENEFITS OF
FEDERATED RUSSIAN BIODIVERSITY DATA
Ivanova NV & Shashkov MP (2014) Approaches toDevelopment of Common Information Resource on Species
Biodiversity. Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics
9(2). http://www.matbio.org/article.php?journ_id=18&id=199&lang=eng
Author country: Russia

In introducing the GBIF network to Russian speakers,
the authors call attention to how its community
standards could support the development of a
Russian Biodiversity Database that would aggregate
and unify biodiversity data at a national level.

COMPARING VIRTUAL HERBARIA
Jones T, Baxter D, Hagedorn G et al. (2014) Trends inaccess of plant biodiversity data revealed by Google
Analytics. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1558. doi:10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1558
Author countries: United States, Germany, Australia

Using Google Analytics, the authors analyzed thedigital presence of plant biodiversity data provided
by 15 different online resources, including GBIF.org.
The knowledge drawn from this analysis provides
comparative statistics along with metrics about
usability, design, and potential future development
within biodiversity informatics.

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A SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF GLOBALKNOWLEDGE ON SPECIES AND BIODIVERSITY

PUBLISHING AND SHARING BIODIVERSITYDATASETS VIA THE IPT

Pimm SL, Jenkins CN, Abell R et al. (2014) The biodiversityof species and their rates of extinction, distribution, andprotection. Science 344(6187): 1246752-1246752.
doi:10.1126/science.1246752
Author countries: United States, Switzerland, Brazil, United
Kingdom
Research funding: CAPES—Ciência Sem Fronteiras

Robertson T, Döring M, Guralnick RP et al. (2014) The GBIF
Integrated Publishing Toolkit: Facilitating the Efficient
Publishing of Biodiversity Data on the Internet. PLoS ONE
9(8): e102623. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102623
Author countries: Denmark, United States, BelgiumThis research team reviews knowledge of species(and recognized gaps in it), with a focus on
extinction rates, distributions and protection inorder to contribute to an upcoming assessment by
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). While
citing significant progress in expanding biodiversity
knowledge through new global data sources like the
GBIF network, they highlight these databases’ role inanalysing and updating estimates on rates of species
extinction, hypothesizing them to be 1,000 times
higher than natural background rates—yet still likely
to be underestimated for the future.

Working with partners from VertNET in the UnitedStates and INBO in Belgium, developers at the GBIF
Secretariat described the features and functionsof the Integrated Publishing Toolkit software. The
discussion outlines the impetus and creation of the
IPT, its continuing evolution, and its impact on thebiodiversity research community and data publishing.

bibliography
TITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Amaral R, Badia RM,
Blanquer I et al.

Supporting biodiversity studies
with the EUBrazilOpenBio
Hybrid Data Infrastructure

Concurrency andComputation: Practiceand Experience27(2): 376-394

doi:10.1002/cpe.3238

Brazil, Spain, Italy,
Netherlands, United
Kingdom

Baker E, Rycroft
S, & Smith V

Linking multiple biodiversity
informatics platforms with
Darwin Core Archives

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2:e1039

doi:10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1039

United Kingdom

Banbury BL & O’Meara BC

Reol: R interface to theEncyclopedia of Life

Ecology and Evolution
4(12): 2577-2583

doi:10.1002/
ece3.1109

United States

Bino G, Ramp D &Kingsford RT

Identifying minimal sets ofsurvey techniques for multispecies monitoring acrosslandscapes: an approach utilising
species distribution models

International Journalof Geographical
Information Science
28(8): 1674-1708

doi:10.1080/13658
816.2013.871016

Australia

Bonet FJ, Pérez-Pérez
R, Benito BM et al.

Documenting, storing, and executing
models in Ecology: A conceptual
framework and real implementation ina global change monitoring program

Environmental Modelling& Software 52: 192-199

doi:10.1016/j.
envsoft.2013.10.027

Spain

Booth TH, Nix HA,
Busby JR et al.

Bioclim: the first species distribution
modelling package, its early
applications and relevance tomost current MaxEnt studies

Diversity andDistributions 20(1):1-9

doi:10.1111/
ddi.12144

Australia

Cook JA, Edwards
SV, Lacey EA et al.

Natural History Collections
as Emerging Resources forInnovative Education

BioScience
64(8):725-734

doi:10.1093/
biosci/biu096

United States

Costello MJ, Appeltans
W, Bailly N et al.

Strategies for the sustainabilityof online open-accessbiodiversity databases

Biological Conservation
173:155-165

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2013.07.042

New Zealand, Germany,
Belgium, Netherlands,
United Kingdom,
Philippines, United States

Costello MJ &Wieczorek JR

Best practice for biodiversity data
management and publication

Biological Conservation
173:68-73

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2013.10.018

New Zealand, United States

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AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Duputié A, Zimmermann
NE, & Chuine I

Where are the wild things?
Why we need better data on
species distribution

Global Ecology
and Biogeography
23(4):457-467

doi:10.1111/
geb.12118

France, Switzerland

Emilio G-R, Guisande
C, Juergen H et al.

Using ModestR to download, import
and clean species distribution records

Methods in Ecology
and Evolution

doi:10.1111/2041210X.12209

Spain, Colombia

Favret C

Cybertaxonomy to accomplish
big things in aphid systematics

Insect Science21(3):392-399

doi:10.1111/17447917.12088

CanadaFuentes D & Fiore N

The LifeWatch approach to
the exploration of distributed
species information

ZooKeys 463:133-48

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.463.8397

Italy

Graham M & Kennedy J

Vesper: Visualising species archives

Ecological Informatics
24:132-147

doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2014.08.004

United Kingdom

Herrando-Perez S, Brook
BW & Bradshaw CJA

Ecology Needs a Conventionof Nomenclature

BioScience
64(4):311-321

doi:10.1093/
biosci/biu013

Spain, Australia

Hoffmann A, Penner
J, Vohland K et al.

The need for an integrated
biodiversity policy support
process – Building the European
contribution to a global Biodiversity
Observation Network (EU BON)

Nature Conservation
6:49-65

doi:10.3897/
natureconservation.
6.6498Germany, France, United
Kingdom, Estonia, Spain,
Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark

Hudson LN, Newbold
T, Contu S et al.

The PREDICTS database:a global database of how
local terrestrial biodiversity
responds to human impacts

Ecology and Evolution
4(24): 4(24): 4701-4735

doi:10.1002/
ece3.1303

United Kingdom, Tanzania,
Denmark, Belgium,
Germany, Ghana, Costa
Rica, Argentina, Malaysia,
Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay,
Hungary, Brazil, Canada,
Portugal, Sweden, Guyana,
Ireland, Spain, Italy,
Czech Republic, Japan,
Australia, India, Greece,
Papua New Guinea,
United States, Jordan,
Philippines, Kenya, China,
Finland, Nigeria, Singapore,
Netherlands, Russia

Isaac, N. J. B., van Strien,
A. J., August, TA et al.

Statistics for citizen science:extracting signals of change
from noisy ecological data

Methods in Ecology
and Evolution 5(10):1052-1060

doi:10.1111/2041210X.12254

United Kingdom

Ivanova NV &Shashkov MP

Approaches to Development ofCommon Information Resourceon Species Biodiversity

Mathematical Biology
and Bioinformatics 9(2)http://www.matbio.
org/article.php?journ_id=18&
id=199&lang=eng

RussiaJones T, Baxter D,
Hagedorn G et al.

Trends in access of plant biodiversity
data revealed by Google Analytics

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2:e1558

doi:10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1558

United States,
Germany, Australia

Kalwij JM, Robertson
MP, Ronk A et al.

Spatially-Explicit Estimation of
Geographical Representation in LargeScale Species Distribution Datasets

PLoS ONE 9(1):e85306

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0085306

South Africa

Laurenne N, Tuominen
J, Saarenmaa H et al.

Making species checklists
understandable to machines- a shift from relational
databases to ontologies

Journal of Biomedical
Semantics 5(1):40

http://www.
jbiomedsem.com/
content/5/1/40

FinlandMathew C, Güntsch
A, Obst M et al.

A semi-automated workflow
for biodiversity data retrieval,cleaning, and quality control

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2: e4221

doi: 10.3897/
BDJ.2.e4221

Germany, Sweden,
Italy, United Kingdom,
Finland, Netherlands

Matutinovic SF

Open Access in Botany

Botanica Serbica
38(1): 191-195

http://
botanicaserbica.
bio.bg.ac.rs/arhiva/
pdf/2014_38_1_610_
full.pdf

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JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

A review of the Entocytheridae(Ostracoda) of the world: updated
bibliographic and species checklists
and global georeferenced
database, with insights into
host specificity and latitudinalpatterns of species richness

Crustaceana 87(89):923-951

doi:10.1163/
15685403-00003337

Spain

Miyazaki Y, Murase
A, Shiina M et al.

Biological monitoring by citizens
using Web-based photographic
databases of fishes

Biodiversity andConservation
23(9):2383-2391

doi:10.1007/s10531014-0724-4

Japan

Monteiro M, Reino
L, Beja P et al.

The collection and database ofBirds of Angola hosted at IICT(Instituto de Investigação Científica
Tropical), Lisboa, Portugal

ZooKeys 387:89-99

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.387.6412

Portugal, South
Africa, Nigeria

Parr CS, Wilson N,
Leary P et al.

The Encyclopedia of Life v2:
Providing Global Access to
Knowledge About Life on Earth

Biodiversity Data
Journal 2:e1079

doi:10.3897/
BDJ.2.e1079

United States

Pimm SL, Jenkins
CN, Abell R et al.

The biodiversity of species
and their rates of extinction,
distribution, and protection

Science344(6187):1246752–
1246752

doi:10.1126/
science.1246752

United States,
Brazil, Switzerland,
United Kingdom

Pylro VS, Roesch LFW,
Ortega JM et al.

Brazilian Microbiome Project:revealing the unexplored microbial
diversity--challenges and prospects

Microbial Ecology
67(2):237-41

doi:10.1007/s00248013-0302-4

Brazil, United Kingdom

Robertson T, Döring M,
Guralnick RP et al.

The GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit:
Facilitating the Efficient Publishingof Biodiversity Data on the Internet

PLoS ONE 9(8):e102623

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0102623

Denmark, UnitedStates, Belgium

Skevakis G, Makris
K, Kalokyri V et al.

Metadata management,interoperability and Linked
Data publishing support for
Natural History Museums

International Journal
on Digital Libraries
14(3-4):127-140

doi:10.1007/s00799014-0114-2

GreeceSöhngen C, Bunk B,
Podstawka A et al.

BacDive--the Bacterial
Diversity Metadatabase

Nucleic Acids Research
42(1):D592–9

doi:10.1093/
nar/gkt1058

Germany

Szabo I, Hurley G,
Cavaghan S et al.

A call for the preservation ofimages, recordings, and other datain association with avian genetic
samples, and the introductionof a solution: OMBIRDS

The Auk 131(3):321-326

doi:10.1642/
AUK-13-237.1

CanadaTewksbury JJ, Anderson
JGT, Bakker JD et al.

Natural History’s Place inScience and Society

BioScience
64(4);300-310

doi:10.1093/
biosci/biu032

Canada, Switzerland

Varela S, GonzálezHernández J,
Casabella E et al.

rAvis: An R-Package for Downloading
Information Stored in Proyecto AVIS,
a Citizen Science Bird Project

PloS ONE 9(3):e91650

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0091650

Czech Republic, Brazil,
Spain, United States

Walls RL, Deck J,
Guralnick RP et al.

Semantics in Support of Biodiversity
Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction
to the Biological Collections
Ontology and Related Ontologies

PLoS ONE 9(3):e89606

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0089606

United States, Germany,
France, French Polynesia,
United Kingdom

Wielstra B, Sillero
N, Vörös J et al.

The distribution of the crested andmarbled newt species (Amphibia:
Salamandridae: Triturus) – anaddition to the New Atlas ofAmphibians and Reptiles of Europe

Amphibia-Reptilia
35(3): 376-381

doi:10.1163/
15685381-00002960

Portugal, Hungary,
Netherlands

Zorrilla R, Poltosi M,
Gadelha L et al.

Conceptual View Representation of
the Brazilian Information System on
Antarctic Environmental Research

Data Science Journal 13

doi:10.2481/
dsj.IFPDA-04

Brazilresearch infrastructure

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