Science
Review
Sourcebook
2016

Compiling the year’s research uses ofdata accessed through GBIF

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About the Science Review Sourcebook 2016
Each year, the GBIF Science Review highlights research uses of primary biodiversity data accessed
through the GBIF network global infrastructure.
Citations­of GBIF-mediated data continue to grow and now average more than one substantive example
each day. In view of the corresponding growth in the number of pages of the Science Review, this year
we’ve decided to separate the narrative highlights from the full annual bibliographic table of citations,which includes more than 400 individual articles. This sourcebook is an electronic companion volume
to the printed GBIF Science Review 2016 (also available electronically) which includes summaries of
selected examples of research using GBIF as a data source, as well as analysis of trends and geographic
location of research teams.
Articles summarized in the Science Review are marked in bold in the following tables, and the Sourcebook
introduces the symbol­‘a’ to indicate open-access articles that are available to all readers with orwithout a journal subscription.

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CONTENTS
Invasive alien species...........................................................................�������������������4
Impacts of climate change...................................................................�������������������7
Species conservation and protected areas......................................�������������������9
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Ecosystem services.............................................................................���������������� 11
Advancing biodiversity science..........................................................���������������� 12
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Abulizi A, Feng Z, Yang
J, Zayiti A & Xu Z

Invasion of the Himalayan hotspot by Acacia
farnesiana: how the human footprint influences
the potential distribution of alien species

Current Science
109(1): 183-189

http://j.mp/2dWxYEF

China

Adhikari D, Tiwary
R & Barik SK

Modelling Hotspots for Invasive Alien Plants in India

PLoS ONE 10(7): e0134665

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0134665

India

Aguilar G, Blanchon D, FooteH, Pollonais C & Mosee A

Queensland fruit fly invasion of New Zealand: Predicting
area suitability under future climate change scenarios

Unitec ePress Perspectives
in Biosecurity Research
Series (2)http://j.mp/1onk5AK

United States,
New Zealand

Aguilla A & Arnau V

Rumex vesicarius L. (Polygonaceae), neófito para la
Flora Valenciana (España, Mediterráneo Occidental)

Flora Montiberica 59: 72-82

http://j.mp/2dvlUa2

Spain

Alsos IG, Ware C & Elven R

Past Arctic aliens have passed away, current ones may stay

Biological Invasions
17(11): 3113-3123

doi:10.1007/s10530015-0937-9

Norway, Australia

Ancillotto L, Strubbe D,
Menchetti M & Mori E

An overlooked invader? Ecological niche,
invasion success and range dynamics of theAlexandrine parakeet in the invaded range

Biological Invasions

doi:10.1007/s10530015-1032-y

Italy, Belgium

Assis J, Zupan M, Nicastro
KR, Zardi GI, McQuaid
CD & Serrão EA

Oceanographic Conditions Limit the Spread of a
Marine Invader along Southern African Shores

PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128124

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0128124

Portugal, South Africa

Atwater DZ, Sezen UU,
Goff V, Kong W, Paterson
AH & Barney JN

Reconstructing changes in the genotype, phenotype,and climatic niche of an introduced species

Ecography

doi:10.1111/ecog.02031

United States

Barredo JI, Strona G, de Rigo
D, Caudullo G, Stancanelli
G & San-Miguel-Ayanz J

Assessing the potential distribution of insect pests:
case studies on large pine weevil (Hylobius abietis L) andhorse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) underpresent and future climate conditions in European forests

EPPO Bulletin 45: 273-281

doi:10.1111/epp.12208

Italy

Bradley BA

Predicting abundance with presence-only models

Landscape Ecology
31(1): 19-30

doi:10.1007/s10980015-0303-4

United States

Byers JE, Smith RS,
Pringle JM et al.

Invasion Expansion: Time since introduction best
predicts global ranges of marine invaders

Scientific Reports 5: 12436

doi:10.1038/srep12436

United States,
Australia, New ZealandCallen ST & Miller AJ

Signatures of niche conservatism and niche shift in the
North American kudzu (Pueraria montana) invasion

Diversity and Distributions
21(8): 853-863

doi:10.1111/ddi.12341

United States

Carlos-Júnior LA, Neves
DM, Barbosa NPU,
Moulton TP & Creed JC

Occurrence of an invasive coral in the southwest
Atlantic and comparison with a congener
suggest potential niche expansion

Ecology and Evolution
5(11): 2162-2171

doi:10.1002/ece3.1506

Brazil, United Kingdom

Daume S

Mining Twitter to monitor Invasive Alien Species – Ananalytical framework and sample information topologies

Ecological Informatics
31: 70-82

doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2015.11.014

Germany, Sweden

Dellinger AS, Essl F,
Hojsgaard D et al.

Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ
among sexual and apomictic flowering plants

New Phytologist
209(3): 1313-1323

doi:10.1111/nph.13694

Austria, Germany,
Czech Republic

Dlugosch KM, Cang FA,
Barker BS, Andonian K,
Swope SM & Rieseberg LH

Evolution of invasiveness through increased
resource use in a vacant niche

Nature Plants 1(15066)

doi:10.1038/
nplants.2015.66

Canada, United States

Dodd AJ, Burgman MA,
McCarthy MA & Ainsworth N

The changing patterns of plant naturalization in Australia

Diversity and Distributions

doi:10.1111/ddi.12351

Australia

Faleiro FV, Silva DP, deCarvalho RA, Särkinen
T, De Marco P Jr.

Ring out the bells, we are being invaded! Niche
conservatism in exotic populations of the Yellow
Bells, Tecoma stans (Bignoniaceae)

Natureza & Conservação
13(1): 24-29

doi:10.1016/j.
ncon.2015.04.004

Brazil, United Kingdom

Fandohan AB, Koko IKED,
Avocevou-Ayisso C et al.

Lantana camara (verbenaceae) : a potential
threat to the effectiveness of protected areas
to conserve flora and fauna in Benin

Agronomie Africaine
27(2): 115-126

http://j.mp/2e8vDUE

Benin

Fandohan AB, Oduor
AMO, Sodé AI et al.

Modeling vulnerability of protected areas to invasion by
Chromolaena odorata under current and future climates

Ecosystem Health andSustainability 1(6): 1-12

doi:10.1890/
EHS15-0003.1

Benin, Germany, China,
United Kingdom

Fernández M & Hamilton H

Ecological Niche Transferability Using
Invasive Species as a Case Study

PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119891

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0119891

United States

Flø D, Krokene P & Økland B

Invasion potential of Agrilus planipennis and other Agrilus
beetles in Europe: import pathways of deciduous woodchips and MaxEnt analyses of potential distribution areas

EPPO Bulletin 45: 259-268

doi:10.1111/epp.12223

NorwayFraser DL, Aguilar G, Nagle
W, Galbraith M & Ryall C

The House Crow (Corvus splendens): A Threat to New Zealand?

ISPRS International
Journal of Geospatial
Information 4(2): 725-740

doi:10.3390/ijgi4020725

New Zealand,
United Kingdom

Fuller P & Neilson ME

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Nonindigenous Aquatic
Species Database: over thirty years of tracking introduced
aquatic species in the United States (and counting)Management of BiologicalInvasions 6(2): 159-170

doi:10.3391/
mbi.2015.6.2.06

United States

Gallardo B, Zieritz
A & Aldridge DC

The Importance of the Human Footprint in Shaping the Global
Distribution of Terrestrial, Freshwater and Marine Invaders

PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125801

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0125801

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Gallien L, Saladin B,
Boucher FC, Richardson
DM & Zimmermann NE

Does the legacy of historical biogeography
shape current invasiveness in pines?

New Phytologist

doi:10.1111/nph.13700

Switzerland,South Africa

Garcia TS, Rowe JC & Doyle JB

A tad too high: Sensitivity to UV-B radiation may limit
invasion potential of American bullfrogs (Lithobates
catesbeianus) in the Pacific Northwest invasion range

Aquatic Invasions
10:2 (237-247)

doi:10.3391/
ai.2015.10.2.12

United StatesaGodefroid M, Cruaud A,
Rossi JP & Rasplus JY

Assessing the Risk of Invasion by Tephritid Fruit
Flies: Intraspecific Divergence Matters

PLoS ONE 10(8): e0135209

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0135209

FranceaGroom QJ, Desmet P,
Vanderhoeven S & Adriaens T

The importance of open data for invasive alien
species research, policy and management

Management of BiologicalInvasions 6(2): 119-125

doi:10.3391/
mbi.2015.6.2.02

BelgiumaIacarella JC, Mankiewicz
PS & Ricciardi A

Negative competitive effects of invasiveplants change with time since invasion

Ecosphere 6(7): 1-14

doi:10.1890/
ES15-00147.1

CanadaaJacobs LEO, van Wyk
E & Wilson JRU

Recent discovery of small naturalised populations of
Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake in South Africa

BioInvasions Records
4(1): 53-59

doi:10.3391/
bir.2015.4.1.09

South Africa

Januario SM, Estay SA,
Labra FA & Lima M

Combining environmental suitability andpopulation abundances to evaluate the invasive
potential of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis
along the temperate South American coast

PeerJ 3:e1357

doi:10.7717/peerj.1357

Chile

Jogesh T, Perry R, Downie
S & Berenbaum M

Patterns of Genetic Diversity in the Globally Invasive
Species, Wild Parsnip (Patinaca Sativa L.)

Invasive Plant Science andManagement 8(4): 415-429

doi:10.1614/
IPSM-D-15-00024.1

United States

van Kleunen M, Dawson
W, Essl F et al.

Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

Nature 525: 100–103

doi:10.1038/nature14910

Germany, Australia,
Czech Republic,
United States,
Russian Federation,
New Zealand, Spain,
Colombia, Costa Rica,
Switzerland, South
Africa, Portugal,
Belgium, Chile, India,
Brazil, Uruguay, Belize,
Oman, Thailand,
China, Saudi Arabia,
Netherlands

Kriticos DJ, Brunel S,
Ota N, Fried G, Lansink
AGJM & Panetta FD

Downscaling Pest Risk Analyses: Identifying
Current and Future Potentially Suitable Habitats
for Parthenium hysterophorus with Particular
Reference to Europe and North Africa

PLoS ONE 10(9): e0132807

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0132807

Australia, France,
Netherlands

Kriticos DJ, Ota N, Hutchison
WE, Beddow J & Walsh T

The Potential Distribution of Invading Helicoverpa
armigera in North America: Is It Just a Matter of Time?

PLoS ONE 10(7): e0133224

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0119618

Australia, UnitedStates, Brazil

Kwon OJ & Oh CH

Naturalization of landscaping woody plant,
Magnolia obovata potentially invasive species

Journal of Mountain
Science 12(1): 30-38

doi:10.1007/s11629014-3191-1

Republic of Korea

Leiblein-Wild M C,
Steinkamp J, Hickler
T & Tackenberg O

Modelling the potential distribution, net
primary production and phenology of common
ragweed with a physiological model

Journal of Biogeography

doi:10.1111/jbi.12646

Germany

Leidenberger S, Obst
M, Kulawik R et al.

Evaluating the potential of ecological nichemodelling as a component in marine nonindigenous species risk assessments

Marine Pollution Bulletin

doi:10.1016/j.
marpolbul.2015.
04.033Sweden, Germany,
United Kingdom

Li XH, Gao ST, Gu WB,
Zhang Y & Guo YH

Species identification of freshwater snail Planorbella
trivolvis and analysis of its potential distribution

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing
Fang Zhi Za Zhi (Chinese
Journal of Schistosomiasis
Control) 27(3): 268-72.

http://j.mp/20SEUCf

China

Mainali KP, Warren DL,
Dhileepan K et al.

Projecting future expansion of invasive species:
comparing and improving methodologies
for species distribution modeling

Global Change Biology,
21 (12): 4464–4480

doi:10.1111/gcb.13038

United States,
Australia, South Africa,
Nepal, United Kingdom

McConnachie AJ, Peach
E, Turner, PJ, Stutz S,
Schaffner U & Simmons A

The invasive weed ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum
vulgare Lam. (Asteraceae): Prospects for
its management in New South Wales

Plant Protection Quarterly30(3): 103-109

http://j.mp/2djPaTs

Australia, Switzerland

Mendoza R, Luna
S & Aguilera C

Risk assessment of the ornamental fish trade in Mexico:
analysis of freshwater species and effectivenessof the FISK (Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit)

Biological Invasions
17(12): 3491-3502

doi:10.1007/s10530015-0973-5

MexicoMori E, Mazza G,
Menchetti M et al.

The masked invader strikes again: the conquestof Italy by the Northern raccoon

Hystrix, the Italian Journalof Mammalogy 26(1): 47-57

doi:10.4404/
hystrix-26.1-11035

Italy, Germany

Murray RG, Popescu VD,
Palen WJ & Govindarajulu P

Relative performance of ecological niche andoccupancy models for predicting invasions
by patchily-distributed species

Biological Invasions
17(9): 2691-2706

doi:10.1007/s10530015-0906-3

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Orlova-Bienkowskaja MJ,
Ukrainsky AS & Brown PMJ

Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Asia:
a re-examination of the native range and invasion
to southeastern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Biological Invasions
17(7) 1941-1948

doi:10.1007/s10530015-0848-9

Russian Federation,
United Kingdom

Park DS & Potter D

Why close relatives make bad neighbours: phylogenetic
conservatism in niche preferences and dispersal disproves
Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in the thistle tribe

Molecular Ecology
24: 3181-3193

doi:10.1111/mec.13227

United States

Qin Z, Zhang J, DiTommaso
A, Wang R & Wu R

Predicting invasions of Wedelia trilobata (L.)
Hitchc. with Maxent and GARP models

Journal of Plant Research
128(5): 763-75

doi:10.1007/s10265015-0738-3

China, United States

Rekha Sarma R, Munsi M &Neelavara Ananthram A

Effect of Climate Change on Invasion Risk of Giant African
Snail (Achatina fulica Férussac, 1821: Achatinidae) in India

PLoS ONE 10(11): e0143724

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0143724

India

Richardson DM, Le
Roux JJ & Wilson JR

Australian acacias as invasive species: lessons to belearnt from regions with long planting histories

Southern Forests: a Journal ofForest Science 77(1): 31-39

doi:10.2989/20702
620.2014.999305

South Africa

Roger E, Duursma DE,
Downey PO et al.

A tool to assess potential for alien plant establishment
and expansion under climate change

Journal of Environmental
Management 159: 121-127

doi:10.1016/j.
jenvman.2015.05.039

Australia

Rouget M, Robertson
MP, Wilson JRU et al.

Invasion debt – quantifying future biological invasions

Diversity and Distributions

doi:10.1111/ddi.12408

South Africa, Austria

Shaik RS, Gopurenko D,
Urwin NAR, Burrows GE,
Lepschi BJ & Weston LA

Population genetics of invasive Citrullus lanatus,
Citrullus colocynthis and Cucumis myriocarpus(Cucurbitaceae) in Australia: inferences basedon chloroplast and nuclear gene sequencing

Biological Invasions
17(8): 2475-2490

doi:10.1007/s10530015-0891-6

AustraliaaSilva-Rocha I, Salvi D, Sillero
N, Mateo JA & Carretero MA

Snakes on the Balearic Islands: An Invasion Tale with
Implications for Native Biodiversity Conservation

PLoS ONE 10(4): e0121026

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0121026

Portugal, SpainaSmith L, Tekiela
D & Barney J

Predicting biofuel invasiveness: a relative
comparison to crops and weeds

Invasive Plant Scienceand Management

doi:10.1614/
IPSM-D-15-00001.1

United States

Strubbe D, Jackson H,
Groombridge J, Matthysen E

Invasion success of a global avian invader is
explained by within-taxon niche structure andassociation with humans in the native range

Diversity and Distributions
21: 675-685

doi:10.1111/ddi.12325

Belgium, United
KingdomTanentzap AJ, Brandt
AJ, Smissen RD, Heenan
PB, Fukami T & Lee WG

When do plant radiations influence community
assembly? The importance of historicalcontingency in the race for niche space.

New Phytologist
207(2): 468-479

doi:10.1111/nph.13362

United Kingdom, New
Zealand, United States

Turner KG, Fréville H& Rieseberg LH

Adaptive plasticity and niche expansion in an invasive thistle

Ecology and Evolution
5(15): 3183-3197

doi:10.1002/ece3.1599

Canada, France,
United States

Uden DR, Allen CR, Angeler
DG, Corral L & Fricke KA

Adaptive invasive species distribution models: aframework for modeling incipient invasions

Biological Invasions
17(10): 2831-2850

doi:10.1007/s10530015-0914-3

United States, Sweden

Ware C, Berge J,
Jelmert A et al.

Biological introduction risks fromshipping in a warming Arctic

Journal of Applied Ecology

doi:10.1111/13652664.12566

Norway, Australia,
Denmark, Switzerland,
Russian Federation,
PolandWetterer JK

Geographic origin and spread of cosmopolitan
ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Halteres 6: 66-78

http://j.mp/1SFr2dB

United States

Wetterer JK & Hita Garcia F

Worldwide spread of Tetramorium caldarium(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

MyrmecologicalNews 21: 93-99

http://j.mp/20ltswM

United States, Germany

Wetterer JK, Guénard
B & Booher DB

Geographic spread of Vollenhovia emeryi(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Asian Myrmecology
7: 105-112

http://j.mp/1V04mSA

China, United States

Wetterer JK, MacGown
JA & Calcaterra LA

Geographic Spread of Pheidole Obscurithorax(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Transactions of theAmerican EntomologicalSociety 141 (1): 222-231

http://j.mp/1RkU0xC

United States,
Argentina

Wirga M & Majtyka T

Do climatic requirements explain the northern range ofEuropean reptiles? Common wall lizard Podarcis muralis(Laur.) (Squamata, Lacertidae) as an example

North-Western Journal of
Zoology 11 (2): 296-303

http://j.mp/2djOrBy

PolandZengeya TA, Booth AJ& Chimimba CT

Broad Niche Overlap between Invasive Nile Tilapia
Oreochromis niloticus and Indigenous Congenerics
in Southern Africa: Should We be Concerned?

Entropy 17: 4959-4973

doi:10.3390/e17074959

South Africa

Zhao L, Hou P, Zhu G,
Li M, Xie T & Liu Q

Mapping the disjunct distribution of introduced
codling moth Cydia pomonella in China

Agricultural and Forest
Entomology 17(2): 214-222

doi:10.1111/afe.12104

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Should I stay or should I go? Climate change effects
on the future of Neotropical savannah batsGlobal Ecology andConservation 5: 22-33

doi:10.1016/j.
gecco.2015.11.011

Brazil, United KingdomaAguiar LMS, Bernard
B, Ribeiro V, Machado
RB & Jones GaAuber A, Travers-Trolet
M, Villanueva MC &Regime Shift in an Exploited Fish Community
Related to Natural Climate Oscillations

PLoS ONE 10(7): e0129883

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0129883

FranceBaltensperger AP& Huettmann F

Predicted Shifts in Small Mammal Distributions andBiodiversity in the Altered Future Environment of Alaska:
An Open Access Data and Machine Learning Perspective

PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132054

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0132054

United States

Bateman BL, Pidgeon
AM, Radeloff VC et al.

The pace of past climate change vs. potential bird
distributions and land use in the United States

Global Change Biology

doi:10.1111/gcb.13154

United States, Australia

Booth TH

Using a Global Botanic Gardens Database toHelp Assess the Capabilities of Rare Eucalypt
Species to Cope with Climate ChangeInternational Forestry
Review 17(3): 259-268

doi:10.1505/
146554815815982639

Australia

Booth TH, Broadhurst
LM, Pinkard E et al.

Native forests and climate change: Lessons from eucalypts

Forest Ecology andManagement

doi:10.1016/j.
foreco.2015.03.002

Australia

Bowler DE, Haase P,
Kröncke I et al.

A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climatechange on abundance trends in central Europe

Biological Conservation
187: 41-50

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2015.03.034

Germany, United
Kingdom, Spain

Brown KA, Parks KE, Bethell
CA, Johnson SE & Mulligan M

Predicting Plant Diversity Patterns in Madagascar:
Understanding the Effects of Climate and Land
Cover Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot

PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122721

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0122721

United Kingdom,
CanadaCabrelli AL

Assessing the vulnerability of Australianskinks to climate change

Climatic Change
130(2): 223-233

doi:10.1007/s10584015-1358-6

Australia

Carrillo-Angeles
IG, Suzán-Azpiri H,
Mandujano MC, Golubov
J & Martínez-Ávalos JG

Niche breadth and the implications of climate change inthe conservation of the genus Astrophytum (Cactaceae)

Journal of Arid Environments
124: 310-317

doi:10.1016/j.
jaridenv.2015.09.001

MexicoCastellanos-Frías E, Garciade León D, Bastida F &Gonzalez-Andujar JL

Predicting global geographical distribution of Lolium
rigidum (rigid ryegrass) under climate change

The Journal of
Agricultural Science

doi:10.1017/
S0021859615000799

Spain, Chile

Comte L, Hugueny B& Grenouillet G

Climate interacts with anthropogenic drivers
to determine extirpation dynamics

Ecography

doi:10.1111/ecog.01871

France, United States

Cuyckens GAE, Christie
DA, Domic AI, Malizia
LR & Renison D

Climate change and the distribution andconservation of the world’s highest elevation
woodlands in the South American Altiplano

Global and Planetary
Change 137: 79-87

doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.
2015.12.010

Argentina, Chile, Bolivia

Duque A, Stevenson
PR & Feeley KJ

Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree
communities in the northern tropical Andes

Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of theUnited States of America
112 (34): 10744-10749

doi:10.1073/
pnas.1506570112

Colombia, United States

Fernández M, Hamilton
HH & Kueppers LM

Back to the future: using historical climate variation toproject near-term shifts in habitat suitable for coast redwood

Global Change Biology
21(11) :4141-52

doi:10.1111/gcb.13027

United States

Garcia LG, de Barros Ferraz
SF, Alvares CA, de Barros
Ferraz KMPM & Higa RCVModeling suitable climate for Eucalyptus grandis
under future climates scenarios in Brazil/Modelagem
da aptidão climática do Eucalyptus grandis frente
aos cenários de mudanças climáticas no Brasil

Scientia Forestalis
42(104): 503-511

http://j.mp/1QSlicJ

BrazilGe X, He S, Wang T,
Yan W, Zong S

Potential Distribution Predicted forRhynchophorus ferrugineus in China underDifferent Climate Warming Scenarios

PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141111

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0141111

China

Gough LA, SverdrupThygeson A, Milberg P et al.

Specialists in ancient trees are more
affected by climate than generalists

Ecology and Evolution
5(23): 5632-5641

doi:10.1002/ece3.1799

Norway, United
Kingdom, Sweden

Gunderson AR & Stillman JH

Plasticity in thermal tolerance has limited potential
to buffer ectotherms from global warming

Proceedings of the Royal
Society B 282(1808)

doi:10.1098/
rspb.2015.0401

United States

Hof AR & Svahlin A

The potential effect of climate change on
the geographical distribution of insect pest
species in the Swedish boreal forest

Scandinavian Journalof Forest Research31(1): 29-39

doi:10.1080/028275
81.2015.1052751

SwedenHuerta-Ramos G, MorenoCasasola P & Sosa V

Wetland Conservation in the Gulf of Mexico: The Exampleof the Salt Marsh Morning Glory, Ipomoea sagittata

Wetlands 35(4): 709-721

doi:10.1007/s13157015-0662-2

MexicoKerr JT, Pindar A,
Galpern P et al.

Climate change impacts on bumblebees
converge across continents

Science 349(6244): 177-180

doi:10.1126/
science.aaa7031

Canada, United
Kingdom, Belgium,
United States

Kim TG, Han Y-G, Jeong JC,
Kim Y, Kwon O & Cho Y

Changes in Biston robustum and Camellia
japonica distributions, according to climatechange predictions in South Korea

Journal of Ecology andEnvironment 38 (3): 327-334

doi:10.5141/
ecoenv.2015.033

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JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Krehenwinkel A,
Rödder D & Tautz D

Eco-Genomic analysis of the poleward range
expansion of the wasp spider Argiope bruennichishows rapid adaptation and genomic admixture

Global Change Biology
21(12): 4320-4332

doi:10.1111/gcb.13042

Germany

Lancaster LT, Dudaniec RY,
Hansson B &d Svensson EI

Latitudinal shift in thermal niche breadth results fromthermal release during a climate-mediated range expansion

Journal of Biogeography42(10): 1953-1963

doi:10.1111/jbi.12553

United Kingdom,
SwedenLeach K, Kelly R, Cameron
A, Montgomery WI & Reid N

Expertly Validated Models and Phylogenetically-Controlled
Analysis Suggests Responses to Climate Change Are
Related to Species Traits in the Order Lagomorpha

PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122267

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0122267

United Kingdom

Lemoine NP

Climate Change May Alter Breeding Ground Distributionsof Eastern Migratory Monarchs (Danaus plexippus)
via Range Expansion of Asclepias Host Plants

PLoS ONE 10(2): e0118614

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0118614

United States

Liu J, Wang C, Fu D et al.

Phylogeography of Nanorana parkeri (Anura:
Ranidae) and multiple refugia on the Tibetan Plateau
revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA

Scientific Reports 5: 9857

doi:10.1038/srep09857

China

Luo ZH, Jiang ZG & Tang SH

Impacts of climate change on distributions anddiversity of ungulates on the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Applications
25:24–38

doi:10.1890/13-1499.1

China

Malhado ACM, OliveiraNeto JA, Stropp J et al.

Climatological correlates of seed sizein Amazonian forest trees

Journal of Vegetation
Science 26(5): 956-963

doi:10.1111/jvs.12301

Brazil, Italy, United
Kingdom

Newman CE & Austin CC

Thriving in the Cold: Glacial Expansion and PostGlacial Contraction of a Temperate Terrestrial
Salamander (Plethodon serratus)

PLoS ONE 10(7): e0130131

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0130131

United States

Nori J, Moreno Azócar
DL, Cruz FB, Bonino
MF & Leynaud GC

Translating niche features: Modelling differential
exposure of Argentine reptiles to global climate change

Austral Ecology

doi:10.1111/aec.12321

Argentina

Ortega-Andrade HM,
Prieto-Torres DA, GómezLora I, Lizcano DJ

Ecological and Geographical Analysis of theDistribution of the Mountain Tapir (Tapirus
pinchaque) in Ecuador: Importance of Protected
Areas in Future Scenarios of Global Warming

PLOS ONE 10(3): e0121137

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0121137

Mexico, Ecuador,
Venezuela, Spain

Paterson RRM, Kumar
L,Taylor S & Lima N

Future climate effects on suitability for growthof oil palms in Malaysia and Indonesia

Scientific Reports 5: 14457

doi:10.1038/srep14457

Australia,
Portugal, Brazil

Petitpierre B, MacDougall
K, Seipel T, Broennimann
O, Guisan A & Kueffer C

Will climate change increase the risk ofplant invasions into mountains?

Ecological Applications

doi:10.1890/14-1871.1

Switzerland, Australia,
United States

Qin Z, DiTommaso A,
Wang RL & Liang KM

Predicting the potential distribution of Lantana camara
L. under RCP scenarios using ISI-MIP models

Climatic Change
134(1): 193-208

doi:10.​1007/​s10584015-1500-5

China, United States

Robiansyah I & Hajar AS

Predicting Current and Future Distribution of Endangered Tree
Dracaena ombet Kotschy and Peyr. Under Climate Change

Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, India
Section B: Biological Sciencesdoi:10.1007/s40011015-0588-8

Saudi Arabia, Indonesia

Shabani F, Kumar
L & Esmaeili A

A modelling implementation of climate change
on biodegradation of Low-density polyethylene(LDPE) by Aspergillus niger in soil

Global Ecology andConservation 4: 388-398

doi:10.1016/j.
gecco.2015.08.003

Australia, Iran

Silva DP , Macêdo ACBA,
Ascher JS & De Marco Jr P

Range increase of a Neotropical orchid bee
under future scenarios of climate change

Journal of Insect
Conservation 19(5): 901-910

doi:10.1007/s10841015-9807-0

Brazil, Singapore

Stewart JAE, Perrine
JD, Nichols LB et al.

Revisiting the past to foretell the future: summer temperatureand habitat area predict pika extirpations in California

Journal of Biogeography
42(5): 880-890

doi:10.1111/jbi.12466

United States

Stuart-Smith RD, Edgar GJ,
Barrett NS, Kininmonth
SJ & Bates AE

Thermal biases and vulnerability towarming in the world’s marine fauna

Nature 528: 88-92

doi:10.1038/nature16144

Australia, Sweden,
United KingdomaSunday JM, Pecl GT,
Frusher S et al.

Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic
range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot

Ecology Letters
18(9): 944-953

doi:10.1111/ele.12474

Canada, Australia,
United KingdomaTejedor Garavito N, Newton
AC, Golicher D & Oldfield S

The Relative Impact of Climate Change on the Extinction
Risk of Tree Species in the Montane Tropical Andes

PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131388

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0131388

United KingdomVårhammar A, Wallin
G, McLean CM et al.

Photosynthetic temperature responses of tree species
in Rwanda: evidence of pronounced negative effects ofhigh temperature in montane rainforest climax species

New Phytologist
206(3):1000-12

doi:10.1111/nph.13291

Sweden, Australia,
RwandaWisz MS, Broennimann
O, Grønkjær et al.

Arctic warming will promote Atlantic–
Pacific fish interchange

Nature Climate Change
5: 261-265

doi:10.1038/nclimate2500

Denmark, Greenland,
Switzerland, France

Wright AN, Schwartz MW,
Hijmans RJ & Shaffer HBAdvances in climate models from CMIP3 to CMIP5 do
not change predictions of future habitat suitability
for California reptiles and amphibians

Climatic Change

doi:10.1007/s10584015-1552-6

United States

Wüest RO, Antonelli A,
Zimmermann NE & Linder HP

Available Climate Regimes Drive Niche
Diversification during Range Expansion

The American
Naturalist 185 (5)doi:10.1086/680551

Switzerland,
France, Sweden

Zhang J, Nielsen SE, Stolar
J, Chen Y & Thuiller W

Gains and losses of plant species and phylogenetic
diversity for a northern high-latitude region

Diversity and Distributions
21(12): 1410-1454

doi:10.1111/ddi.12365

Canada, Denmark,France

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species conservation
AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESBeier P & de Albuquerque FS

Environmental diversity as a surrogate
for species representation

Conservation Biology
29(5):1401-10

doi:10.1111/cobi.12495

United States

Botello F, Sarkar S &Sánchez-Cordero V

Impact of habitat loss on distributions of terrestrial
vertebrates in a high-biodiversity region in Mexico

Biological Conservation
184: 59-65

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2014.11.035

Mexico, United States

Botero-Delgadillo E,
Bayly NJ, EscuderoPáez S & Moreno MI

Understanding the distribution of a threatened bird at
multiple levels: A hierarchical analysis of the ecologicalniche of the Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant (Myiotheretes pernix)

The Condor 117(4): 629-643

doi:10.1650/
CONDOR-15-26.1

Colombia, ChileaaBrummitt NA, Bachman
SP, Griffiths-Lee J et al.

Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment
for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants

PLoS ONE 10(8): e0135152

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0135152

United Kingdom,
South Africa

Clavero M & Hermoso V

Historical data to plan the recovery of the European eel

Journal of Applied Ecology
52(4): 960-968

doi: 10.1111/13652664.12446

Spain, Australia

de Albuquerque FS, Benito
B, Beier P, AssunçãoAlbuquerque M & Cayuela L

Supporting underrepresented forests in Mesoamerica

Natureza & Conservação
13(2): 152-158

doi:10.1016/j.
ncon.2015.02.001

United States,
Denmark, Spain

Avalos VR & Hernández J

Projected distribution shifts and protected area coverageof range-restricted Andean birds under climate change

Global Ecology andConservation 4: 459-469

doi:10.1016/j.
gecco.2015.08.004

Chile

Esperón-Rodríguez
M & Barradas VL

Comparing environmental vulnerability in the montane
cloud forest of eastern Mexico: A vulnerability index

Ecological Indicators
52: 300-310

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolind.2014.12.019

MexicoFlores-Maldonado JJ,
Ruvalcaba-Ortega I,
Moreno-Talamantes A,
García-Aranda MA, FavelaLara S & González-Rojas JI

Representatividad geográfica y ambiental del inventariode especies arbustivas en el Área de Protección deRecursos Naturales "cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito
Nacional de Riego 004 Don Martín", Coahuila, México

Revista Mexicana de
Biodiversidad 86(3): 809-822

doi:10.1016/j.
rmb.2015.08.002

MexicoGarcía-Aguilara MC, LuévanoEsparza J & de la Cueva H

Mammal Decline in the Middle America

Journal for Nature
Conservation 28: 127-132

doi:10.1016/j.
jnc.2015.10.001

MexicoHällfors MH, Liao J,
Dzurisin JDK et al.

Addressing potential local adaptation in
species distribution models implications forconservation under climate change

Ecological Applications
26(4): 1154-1169

doi:10.1890/15-0926.1

Finland, United States

Hendricks SA, Clee PRC,
Harrigan RJ et al.

Re-defining historical geographic range in
species with sparse records: Implications for
the Mexican wolf reintroduction program

Biological Conservation
194: 48-57

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2015.11.027

United States

Huang DW & Roy K

The future of evolutionary diversity in reef corals

Philosophical Transactions
B 370: 1662

doi:10.1098/
rstb.2014.0010

Singapore,
United States

Janakiraman J & Jalal JS

Angiosperm diversity of the Great Indian Bustard Wildlife
Sanctuary: a semi-arid grassland, Maharashtra, India

Check List: The Journal of
Biodiversity Data 11(2):doi:10.15560/
11.2.1602

India

Jenkins CN, Alves MAS,
Uezu A & Vale MM

Patterns of Vertebrate Diversity and Protection in Brazil

PLoS ONE 10(12): e0145064

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0145064

BrazilMaes D, Isaac NJB,
Harrower CA, Collen B,
van Strien AJ & Roy DB

The use of opportunistic data for IUCN Red List assessments.

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society
115(3): 690-706

doi:10.1111/bij.12530

Belgium, United
Kingdom, Netherlands

Meza-Parral Y & Pineda E

Amphibian Diversity and Threatened Species in a
Severely Transformed Neotropical Region in Mexico

PLoS ONE 10(3): e0121652

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0121652

MexicoMonroy-Vilchis O, CastilloHuitrón NM, Zarco-González
MM & Rodríguez-Soto C

Potential distribution of Ursus americanus in Mexico
and its persistence: Implications for conservation

Journal for Nature
Conservation 29: 62-68

doi:10.1016/j.
jnc.2015.11.003

MexicoMonterrubio-Rico TC,
Charre-Medellin JF &Sáenz-Romero C

Current and future habitat availability for Thick-billed andMaroon-fronted parrots in northern Mexican forests

Journal of Field
Ornithology, 86: 1–16

doi:10.1111/jofo.12084

MexicoaPadonou EA, Teka O,
Bachmann Y, Schmidt M,
Lykke AM & Sinsin B

Using species distribution models to selectspecies resistant to climate change for ecologicalrestoration of bowé in West Africa.

African Journal of
Ecology 53(1): 83-92

doi:10.1111/aje.12205

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Benin, Germany,
Denmark

Peñaranda DA & Simonetti JA

Predicting and setting conservation priorities for Bolivian
mammals based on biological correlates of the risk of decline

Conservation Biology
29(3): 834-843

doi:10.1111/cobi.12453

Chile, Bolivia

Sangermano F, Bol L,
Galvis P, Gullison RE,
Hardner J & Ross GS

Habitat suitability and protection status of four
species of amphibians in the Dominican Republic

Applied Geography 63: 55e65

doi:10.1016/j.
apgeog.2015.06.002

United States, Canada,
Dominican Republic

Verde Arregoitia LD, Leach
K, Reid N & Fisher DO

Diversity, extinction, and threat status in Lagomorphs

Ecography 38(11):1155-1165

doi:10.1111/ecog.01063

Australia, United
Kingdom

Wagner N, Mingo V,
Schulte U & Lötters S

Risk evaluation of pesticide use toprotected European reptile species

Biological Conservation
191: 667-673

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2015.08.002

Germany

Wijedasa L, Shee ZQ & Chia E

Conservation status and lectotypfication of
Alangium ridleyi (Cornaceae) in Singapore

Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore
66(2): 233-239

http://j.mp/1Ta6dXp

Singapore, Malaysia

Xiao YE, Jiang K, Tong
X, Hu YH & Chen XY

Population genetic structure of Iris ensata on skyislands and its implications for assisted migration

Conservation Genetics
16(5): 1055-1067

doi:10.1007/s10592015-0722-4

China

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JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Alimi TO, Fuller DO,
Qualls WA et al.

Predicting potential ranges of primary malaria vectors
and malaria in northern South America based on projectedchanges in climate, land cover and human population

Parasites & Vectors 8:431

doi:10.1186/s13071015-1033-9

United States,
Colombia, Brazil

Chingwaru W, Vidmar J& Kapewangolo PT

The Potential of Sub-Saharan African Plants in
the Management of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Infections: A Review

Phytotherapy Research29(10): 1452-1487

doi:10.1002/ptr.5433

Zimbabwe, Slovenia,
Namibia

Gull T, Anwar F, Sultana B,
Alcayde MAC & Nouman W

Capparis species: A potential source of bioactives
and high-value components: A review

Industrial Crops andProducts 67: 81-96

doi:10.1016/j.
indcrop.2014.12.059

Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Mexico

Gwitiraa I, Murwira A,
Zengeya FM, Masocha
M & Mutambu S

Modelled habitat suitability of a malaria causing
vector (Anopheles arabiensis) relates well withhuman malaria incidences in Zimbabwe

Applied Geography
60: 130-138

doi:10.1016/j.
apgeog.2015.03.010

Zimbabwe

Kraemer MUG, Sinka
ME, Duda KA et al.

The global distribution of the arbovirus vectors
Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus

eLife 4:e08347

doi:10.7554/
eLife.08347#.dpuf

United Kingdom,
United States, Brazil,
Sweden, Belgium,Indonesia, Taiwan

Moraga P, Cano J,
Baggaley RF et al.

Modelling the distribution and transmission intensityof lymphatic filariasis in sub-Saharan Africa priorto scaling up interventions: integrated use ofgeostatistical and mathematical modelling

Parasites & Vectors 8:560

doi:10.1186/s13071015-1166-x

United Kingdom, Ghana,
Kenya, Nigeria, UnitedStates, Australia

Moyo B & Mukanganyama S

Anticandidial properties and some mammalian
toxicity profile of Lampranthus francisci

Journal of Mycology
2015(898202)

doi:10.1155/2015/898202

Zimbabwe

Mylne AQN, Pigott DM,
Longbottom J et al.

Mapping the zoonotic niche of Lassa fever in Africa

Transactions of the Royal
Society of Tropical Medicine& Hygiene 109(8): 483-492

doi:10.1093/
trstmh/trv047

United Kingdom,
United States

Pichler U, Hauser
M, Wolf M et al.

Pectate Lyase Pollen Allergens: Sensitization
Profiles and Cross-Reactivity Pattern

PLoS ONE 10(5): e0120038

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0120038

Austria, Italy, Japan,
France, Germany

Purse BV & Golding N

Tracking the distribution and impacts of diseases
with biological records and distribution modelling

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society
115(3): 664-677

doi:10.1111/bij.12567

United Kingdom

Ramsey JM, Peterson AT,
Carmona-Castro O et al.

Atlas of Mexican Triatominae (Reduviidae: Hemiptera)
and vector transmission of Chagas disease

Memórias do Instituto
Oswaldo Cruz110(3): 339-352

doi:10.1590/007402760140404

Mexico, United States

Shabani F, Kumar L,
Nojoumian AH, Esmaeili
A, Toghyani M

Projected future distribution of date palm and its
potential use in alleviating micronutrient deficiency

Journal of the Scienceof Food and Agriculture
96(4): 1132-1140

doi:10.1002/jsfa.7195

Australia, Iran

Tangjitman K, TrisonthiC, Wongsawad C, Jitaree
S & Svenning JC

Potential impact of climatic change on medicinal plants
used in the Karen women’s health care in northern Thailand

Songklanakarin Journal of
Science and Technology
37(3): 369-379

http://j.mp/2dkflcEThailand, Denmark

Tangjitman K, Wongsawad
C & Trisonthi C

Predicting Vulnerability of Medicinal Plants Used by
Karen People in Chiang Mai Province to Climatic Change

Environment andNatural Resources
Journal 13(1): 61-69

http://j.mp/1XfgIroThailandThongbai B, Rapior S, HydeKD, Wittsein K & Stadler M

Hericium erinaceus, an amazing medicinal mushroom

Mycological Progress 14:91

doi:10.1007/s11557015-1105-4

Thailand, Germany,
FranceWalsh M & Haseeb MA

Modeling the ecologic niche of plague in sylvan
and domestic animal hosts to delineate sources ofhuman exposure in the western United States

PeerJ 3:e1493

doi:10.7717/peerj.1493

United States

Walsh MG

Mapping the risk of Nipah virus spillover into humanpopulations in South and Southeast Asia

Transactions of the Royal
Society of Tropical Medicine
and Hygiene 109(9): 563-571

doi:10.1093/
trstmh/trv055

United States

Wang H, Li H, Zeng FL, Xie CX

Spatial Distribution and Global Potential
Suitability Regions of Artemisia annua

Zhong Yao Cai 38(3):460-6

http://j.mp/2dkh15X

China

Yañez-Arenas C,
Peterson AT, RodríguezMedina K & Barve N

Mapping current and future potential
snakebite risk in the new world

Climatic Change
134(4): 697-711

doi:10.1007/s10584015-1544-6

United Statesa11food, fuel & fiber
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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Bunn C, Läderach P, Pérez
Jimenez JG, Montagnon
C & Schilling T

Multiclass Classification of Agro-Ecological Zones
for Arabica Coffee: An Improved Understandingof the Impacts of Climate Change

PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140490

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0140490

Colombia, Nicaragua,
United States

Cadima X, van Zonneveld
M, Scheldeman X et al.

Endemic wild potato (Solanum spp.) biodiversity status
in Bolivia: Reasons for conservation concerns

Journal for Nature
Conservation 22(2): 113-131

doi:10.1016/j.
jnc.2013.09.007

Bolivia, Netherlands,
Costa Rica, Belgium,
Colombia, Kenya,
Czech Republic

Castañeda-Álvarez NP, deHaan S, Juárez H et al.

Ex Situ Conservation Priorities for the Wild Relativesof Potato (Solanum L. Section Petota)

PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122599

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0122599

Colombia, United
Kingdom, Peru,
Netherlands,
United States

Galluzzi G, Dufour D,
Thomas E et al.

An Integrated Hypothesis on theDomestication of Bactris gasipaes

PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144644

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0144644

Colombia, Costa Rica

Khoury CK, Heider B,
Castañeda-Alvarez NP et al.

Distributions, ex situ conservation priorities, and genetic
resource potential of crop wild relatives of sweetpotato[Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. series Batatas]

Frontiers in Plant
Science 6: 251

doi:10.3389/
fpls.2015.00251

Colombia, Netherlands,
Peru, United Kingdom,
United States

Magwé-Tindo J,
Zapfack L & Sonké B

Diversity of wild yams (Dioscorea spp.,
Dioscoreaceae) collected in continental Africa

Biodiversity andConservation 25(1): 77-91

doi:10.1007/s10531015-1031-4

Cameroon

Moreira PA, Lins J,
Dequigiovanni G, Veasey
EA & Clement CR

The Domestication of Annatto (Bixa orellana)from Bixa urucurana in Amazonia

Economic Botany69(2): 127-135

doi:10.1007/s12231015-9304-0

BrazilRamirez-Cabral
NYZ,Kumar L & Taylor S

Crop niche modeling projects major shifts
in common bean growing areas

Agricultural andForest Meteorology
218-219: 102-113

doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.
2015.12.002

Australia, Mexico

Wu X, Li J & Dong LY

Factors Affecting Seed Germination andSeedling Emergence of Polypogon fugax

Weed Science 63(2): 440-447

doi:10.1614/WSD-14-00093.1

China

ecosystem servicesa

AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Ahrends A, Hollingsworth
PM, Ziegler AD et al.

Current trends of rubber plantation expansion
may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

Global Environmental
Change 34: 48-58

doi:10.1016/
j.gloenvcha.
2015.06.002

China, United
Kingdom, Singapore,
United States

van Andel T, Ruysschaert
S, Boven K & Daly L

The use of Amerindian charm plants in the Guianas

Journal of Ethnobiology
and Ethnomedicine 11: 66

doi:10.1186/s13002015-0048-9

United Kingdom,
Suriname, Netherlands

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AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESAguiar LMS, da Rosa ROL,
Jones G & Machado RB

Effect of chronological addition of records to species
distribution maps: The case of Tonatia saurophila maresi(Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in South America

Austral Ecology
40(7): 836-844

doi:10.1111/aec.12261

Brazil, United Kingdom

Albuquerque F & Beier P

Rarity-Weighted Richness: A Simple and Reliable
Alternative to Integer Programming and Heuristic
Algorithms for Minimum Set and Maximum
Coverage Problems in Conservation Planning

PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119905

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0119905

United States

Albuquerque F & Beier P

Using abiotic variables to predict importanceof sites for species representation

Conservation Biology
29(5): 1390-1400

doi:10.1111/cobi.12520

United States

Alhajeri BH, Hunt OJ& Steppan SJ

Molecular systematics of gerbils and deomyines(Rodentia: Gerbillinae, Deomyinae) and a testof desert adaptation in the tympanic bulla

Journal of Zoological
Systematics and Evolutionary
Research 53(4): 312-330

doi:10.1111/jzs.12102

United States, Kuwait

Alter SE, Meyer M,
Post K et al.

Climate impacts on transocean dispersal and habitatin gray whales from the Pleistocene to 2100

Molecular Ecology
24(7): 1510-1522

doi:10.1111/mec.13121

United States,
Germany, Netherlands,
Australia, Denmark,
United Kingdom

An M, Zeng L, Zhang
T & Zhong Y

Phylogeography of Thlaspi arvense (Brassicaceae)
in China Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA
Sequences and Ecological Niche ModelingInternational Journalof Molecular Sciences
16: 13339-13355

doi:10.3390/
ijms160613339

China

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Anguloa A, Bussing,
WA & Lópeza MI

Occurrence of the tripodfish Bathypterois ventralis(Aulopiformes: Ipnopidae) in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica

Revista Mexicana de
Biodiversidad 86(2): 546-549

doi:10.1016/j.
rmb.2015.04.025

MexicoaAntonelli A, Zizka A,
Silvestro D et al.

An engine for global plant diversity: Highest evolutionary
turnover and emigration in the American tropics

Frontiers in Genetics 6:130

doi:10.3389/
fgene.2015.00130

Sweden, Switzerland,
Belgium, ColombiaaArbeláez-Cortés E, Garzón-Z
JI, del Socorro Sierra M et al.

Fourteen new additions to the list of birdsof Quindío department, Colombia

Check List 11(6): 1786

doi:10.15560/
11.6.1786

Colombia

Badieritakis EG,
Thanopoulos RC, Fantinou
AA & Emmanouel NG

A qualitative and quantitative study of thrips(Thysanoptera) on alfalfa and records of thrips species
on cultivated and wild Medicago species of Greece

Biologia 70(4): 504–515

doi:10.1515/
biolog-2015-0050

GreeceBáez S, Malizia A,
Carilla J et al.

Large-Scale Patterns of Turnover and Basal
Area Change in Andean Forests

PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126594

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0126594

Ecuador, Argentina,
Peru, Colombia, UnitedStates, Germany,
United Kingdom

Baltensperger AP &Huettmann F

Predictive spatial niche and biodiversity hotspot
models for small mammal communities in Alaska:
applying machine-learning to conservation planning

Landscape Ecology
30(4): 681-697

doi:10.1007/s10980014-0150-8

United States

Barker BS, RodríguezRobles JA & Cook JA

Climate as a driver of tropical insular diversity:
comparative phylogeography of two ecologicallydistinctive frogs in Puerto Rico

Ecography 38(8): 769-781

doi:10.1111/ecog.01327

United States

Barnard-Kubow KB,
Debban CL & Galloway LF

Multiple glacial refugia lead to genetic structuring and thepotential for reproductive isolation in a herbaceous plant

American Journal of Botany102(11): 1842-1853

doi:10.3732/ajb.1500267

United States

Barve S & Mason NA

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

Ibis 157(2): 299-311

doi:10.1111/ibi.12233

United States

Baumann MJ, Beckman
EJ, Bautista E & Witt CC

Long-distance dispersal of a sedentary Andean
flycatcher species with a small geographic range,
Ochthoeca piurae (Aves: Tyrannidae)

Check List 11 (6)doi:10.15560/
11.6.1795

United States, Peru

Bone RE, Smith JAC,
Arrigo N & Buerki S

A macro-ecological perspective on crassulacean acidmetabolism (CAM) photosynthesis evolution in AfroMadagascan drylands: Eulophiinae orchids as a case study

New Phytologist
208(2): 469-481

doi:10.1111/nph.13572

United Kingdom,
Switzerland

Borah RL

An updated account of the name changes of the
Dicotyledonous plant species included in the Vol:
III (1939) & Vol: IV (1940) of "Flora of Assam"

Plant Archives 14(2): 983-993

http://j.mp/2dkhxRl

India

Boston ESM, Montgomery
WI, Hynes R & Prodöhl PA

New insights on postglacial colonization in western Europe:
the phylogeography of the Leisler's bat (Nyctalus leisleri)

Proceedings of the Royal
Society B: Biological
Sciences 282(1804)

doi:10.1098/
rspb.2014.2605

United Kingdom,
Denmark, Austria

Braby MF, Farias Quipildor GE,
Vane-Wright RI & Lohman DJ

Morphological and molecular evidence supports recognitionof Danaus petilia (Stoll, 1790) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
as a species distinct from D. chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Systematics and Biodiversity
13(4): 386-402

doi:10.1080/14772
000.2014.992378

Australia, UnitedStates, United
Kingdom, Philippines

Breusing C, Johnson SB,
Tunnicliffe V & Vrijenhoek RC

Population structure and connectivity in Indo-Pacific deepsea mussels of the Bathymodiolus septemdierum complex

Conservation Genetics
16(6): 1415-1430

doi:10.1007/s10592015-0750-0

Germany, UnitedStates, Canada

Butterfield BJ

Environmental filtering increases in intensity at both ends
of climatic gradients, though driven by different factors,
across woody vegetation types of the southwest USA

Oikos 124(10): 1374-1382

doi:10.1111/oik.02311

United States

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Butynski TM & de Jong YA

Distribution and Conservation Status of the Mount
Kilimanjaro Guereza Colobus guereza caudatus Thomas, 1885

Primate Conservation
29: 107-113

http://j.mp/23Ubt51

Kenya

Cadena EA, Anaya
F & Croft DA

Giant fossil tortoise and freshwater chelid turtle remains
from the middle Miocene, Quebrada Honda, Bolivia: Evidence
for lower paleoelevations for the southern Altiplano

Journal of SouthAmerican Earth Sciences64(1): 190-198

doi:10.1016/j.
jsames.2015.10.013

Ecuador, Bolivia,
United States

Call A, Sun YX, Yu Y et al.

Genetic structure and post-glacial expansion ofCornus florida L. (Cornaceae): integrative evidence
from phylogeography, population demographic
history, and species distribution modeling

Journal of Systematics
and Evolution

doi:10.1111/jse.12171

United States,
China, Spain

Capblancq T, Després L,
Rioux D & Mavárez J

Hybridization promotes speciation in
Coenonympha butterflies

Molecular Ecology
24(24): 6209-6222

doi:10.1111/mec.13479

FranceCarta A & Peruzzi L

Testing the large genome constraint hypothesis: plant
traits, habitat and climate seasonality in Liliaceae

New Phytologist

doi:10.1111/nph.13769

Italy

Carvalho AF & Del Lama MA

Predicting priority areas for conservation from
historical climate modelling: stingless bees from
Atlantic Forest hotspot as a case study

Journal of Insect
Conservation 19(3): 581-587

doi:10.1007/s10841015-9780-7

BrazilCastellanos-Morales G,
Gámez N, Castillo-Gámez
RA & Eguiarte LE

Peripatric speciation of an endemic species driven
by Pleistocene climate change: the case of the
Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus)

Molecular Phylogenetics andEvolution 94A: 171-181

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.08.027

MexicoCavender-Bares J, GonzalezRodriguez A, Eaton DAR, Hipp
AAL, Beulke A & Manos PS

Phylogeny and biogeography of the American
live oaks (Quercus subsection Virentes): A
genomic and population genetics approach

Molecular Ecology
24(14): 3668-3687

doi:10.1111/mec.13269

United States, MexicoaaChauhan JS, Singh CP,
Shukla R & Parihar JS

Geospatial techniques for modelling theenvironmental niche of the species

Coordinates 9(3): 46-48

http://j.mp/1Q6qdKf

India

Chefaoui RM, Assis J,
Duarte CM & Serrão EA

Large-Scale Prediction of Seagrass Distribution IntegratingLandscape Metrics and Environmental Factors: The
Case of Cymodocea nodosa (Mediterranean–Atlantic)

Estuaries and Coasts
39(1): 123-137

doi:10.1007/s12237015-9966-y

Portugal, Saudi Arabia

Chomicki G & Renner SS

Phylogenetics and molecular clocks reveal the repeatedevolution of ant-plants after the late Miocene in Africa
and the early Miocene in Australasia and the Neotropics

New Phytologist
207(2): 411-424

doi:10.1111/nph.13271

Germany

Chung MY, López-Pujola
J, Chung JM, Kim KJ,
Park SJ & Chung MG

Polyploidy in Lilium lancifolium: evidence ofautotriploidy and no niche divergence between diploidand triploid cytotypes in their native ranges

Flora - Morphology,
Distribution, Functional
Ecology of Plants 213: 57-68

doi:10.1016/j.
flora.2015.04.002

Republic of Korea, Spain

Collins RA, Ribeiro ED,
Machado VN, Hrbek
T & Farias IP

A preliminary inventory of the catfishes of the lower
Rio Nhamundá, Brazil (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes)

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e4162.

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4162

BrazilConvertino M, MuñozCarpena R, Kiker
GK & Perz SG

Design of optimal ecosystem monitoring networks:
hotspot detection and biodiversity patterns

Stochastic Environmental
Research and Risk
Assessment 29(4):1085-1101

doi:10.1007/s00477014-0999-8

United States

Corbett-Detig RB, Hartl
DL & Sackton TB

Natural Selection Constrains Neutral Diversity
across A Wide Range of Species

PLoS Biology 13(4):e1002112

doi:10.1371/journal.
pbio.1002112

United States

Coro G, Magliozzi C,
Ellenbroek A & Pagano P

Improving data quality to build a robust
distribution model for Architeuthis dux

Ecological Modelling305: 29-39

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolmodel.
2015.03.011

Italy

Costea M, García MA& Stefanovic S

A Phylogenetically Based Infrageneric Classification of theParasitic Plant Genus Cuscuta (Dodders, Convolvulaceae)

Systematic Botany40(1) 269-285

doi:10.1600/
036364415X686567

CanadaCrowl AA, Visger CJ,
Mansion G et al.

Evolution and biogeography of the endemic Roucela complex(Campanulaceae: Campanula) in the Eastern Mediterranean

Ecology and Evolution
5(22): 5329-5343

doi:10.1002/ece3.1791

United States,
Germany, Greece

Cunningham HR, Rissler LJ,
Buckley LB & Urban MC

Abiotic and biotic constraints acrossreptile and amphibian ranges

Ecography 39(1): 1-8

doi:10.1111/ecog.01369

United States

Davis MP

Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea
Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a
New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters

Copeia 103(1): 64-71

doi:10.1643/CI-14-139

United States

de Ulhôa Barbosa,NP, Fernandez GW &Sanchez-Azofeifa A

A relict species restricted to a quartzitic mountain intropical America: an example of microrefugium?

Acta Botanica Brasilica 29(3)doi:10.1590/010233062014abb3731

Brazil, Canada

Dellicour S, Michez D,
Rasplus JY & Mardulyn P

Impact of past climatic changes and resource availability on
the population demography of three food-specialist bees

Molecular Ecology
24(5): 1074-90

doi:10.1111/mec.13085

France, Belgium

Di Febbraro M, Roscioni
F, Frate L et al.

Long-term effects of traditional and conservationoriented forest management on the distributionof vertebrates in Mediterranean forests: ahierarchical hybrid modelling approach

Diversity and Distributions
21(10): 1141-1154

doi:10.1111/ddi.12362

Italy

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Díaz S, Kattge J,
Cornelissen JHC et al.

The global spectrum of plant form and function

Nature 529: 167-171

doi:10.1038/nature16489

Argentina, Germany,
Netherlands, Australia,
France, Colombia,
United Kingdom,
United States, Panama,
Russian Federation,
French Guiana, Italy,
Canada, Costa Rica

Diniz-Filho JAF, Barbosa
ACOF, Collevatti RG et al.

Spatial autocorrelation analysis and ecological nichemodelling allows inference of range dynamics driving the
population genetic structure of a Neotropical savanna tree

Journal of Biogeography
43(1): 167-177

doi:10.1111/jbi.12622

BrazilDoudna JW & Danielson BJ

Rapid Morphological Change in the Masticatory Structuresof an Important Ecosystem Service Provider

PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127218

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0127218

United States

Duncan SI, Crespi EJ,
Mattheus NM & Rissler LJ

History matters more when explaining genetic diversity
within the context of the core-periphery hypothesis

Molecular Ecology
24(16): 4323-4336

doi:10.1111/mec.13315

United States

Egan AE & Pan B

Pueraria stracheyi, a new synonym
to Apios carnea (Fabaceae)

Phytotaxa 218(2): 147

doi:10.11646/
phytotaxa.218.2.4

United States, China

Ertz D & Diederich P

Dismantling Melaspileaceae: a first phylogenetic study ofBuelliella, Hemigrapha, Karschia, Labrocarpon and Melaspilea

Fungal Diversity
71(1): 141-164

doi:10.1007/s13225015-0321-1

Belgium, Luxembourg

Escobar LE, Awan
MN & Qiao H

Anthropogenic disturbance and habitat loss
for the red-listed Asiatic black bear (Ursus
thibetanus): Using ecological niche modelingand nighttime light satellite imagery

Biological Conservation
191: 400-407

doi:10.1016/j.
biocon.2015.06.040

United States,
Pakistan, China

Escobar LE, Juarez
C, Medina-Vogel G& Gonzalez CM

First Report on Bat Mortalities on Wind Farms in Chile

Gayana 79(1): 11-17

http://j.mp/2dkgLnG

Chile, United StatesaEstrada-Peña A, de laFuente J, Ostfeld RS& Cabezas-Cruz A

Interactions between tick and transmitted
pathogens evolved to minimise competition
through nested and coherent networks

Scientific Reports 5: 10361

doi:10.1038/srep10361

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Spain, UnitedStates, France

Fei S & Yu F

Quality of presence data determines species distribution
model performance: a novel index to evaluate data quality

Landscape Ecology
31(1): 31-42

doi:10.1007/s10980015-0272-7

United States

Fernández M, Navarro LM,
Apaza-Quevedo A et al.

Challenges and opportunities for the Bolivian
Biodiversity Observation Network

Biodiversity 16(2-3): 86-98

doi:10.1080/148883
86.2015.1068710

Germany, United States,
Bolivia, Spain, Chile,
Switzerland, Portugal

Ferretti F, Morey
Verd G, Seret B, SulićŠprem J & Micheli F

Falling through the cracks: the fading
history of a large iconic predator

Fish and Fisheries

doi:10.1111/faf.12108

United States, Spain,
France, Croatia

Feuda R, Bannikova AA,
Zemlemerova ED et al.

Tracing the evolutionary history of the mole,Talpa europaea, through mitochondrial DNA
phylogeography and species distribution modelling

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society
114: 495–512

doi:10.1111/bij.12459

Italy, United States,
Russian Federation,
Germany, Ukraine

Fisher AE, McDade
LA, Kiel CA et al.

Evolutionary History of Blepharis (Acanthaceae) and theOrigin of C4 Photosynthesis in Section Acanthodium

International Journal of Plant
Sciences 176(8): 770-790

doi:10.1086/683011

Canada, United States

Forrestel EJ, Donoghue
MJ & Smith MD

Functional differences between dominant grasses drive
divergent responses to large herbivore loss in mesic
savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

Journal of Ecology
103(3): 714-724

doi:10.1111/13652745.12376

United States

Freeman BG & Mason NA

The Geographic Distribution of a Tropical Montane
Bird Is Limited by a Tree: Acorn Woodpeckers(Melanerpes formicivorus) and Colombian Oaks
(Quercus humboldtii) in the Northern Andes

PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128675

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0128675

United Statesa

Fuentes-Hurtado M,
Hof AR & Jansson R

Paleodistribution modeling suggests glacial refugia in
Scandinavia and out-of-Tibet range expansion of the Arctic fox

Ecology and Evolution
6(1): 170-180

doi:10.1002/ece3.1859

Chile; Sweden

Gabriel A, Bennett C,
Ba AM & Henry S

Modeling the Suitability Index of Selected
Conifers on Mambilla Plateau Taraba State,
Nigeria: Implication on Planted Forest

International Journalof Agroforestry Remote
Sensing and GIS 1(1): 1-9

http://j.mp/2dkhN2L

Nigeria, United StatesaGarcía-Rivera G &Contreras-Ramos A

First Record of Dyscinetus laevipunctatus
Bates (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae)
in an Aquatic Environment in Mexico

Entomological News
125(1): 63-69

doi:10.3157/
021.125.0112

MexicoGaudeul M, Véla E & Rouhan G

Eastward colonization of the Mediterranean Basinby two geographically structured clades: Thecase of Odontites Ludw. (Orobanchaceae)

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 96: 140-149

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.12.008

FranceGerman DA

Some new and revised typificationsin North Eurasian Cruciferae

Turczaninowia 17(4): 29-41

doi:10.14258/
turczaninowia.17.4.6

Germany, RussianFederation

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JDR & Provan J

Population genetic analyses reveal distinct geographicalblooms of the jellyfish Rhizostoma octopus (Scyphozoa)

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society
116(3): 582-592

doi:10.1111/bij.12614

United Kingdom

Glynn F, Houghton
JDR, Bastian T et al

High-resolution genetic analysis reveals extensive geneflow within the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Scyphozoa)
in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

Biological Journal of theLinnean Society Volume117(2): 252-263

doi:10.1111/bij.12654

United Kingdom,France, Ireland, Spain

Gnoumou A, Ouedraogo O,
Schmidt M & Thiombiano A

Floristic diversity of classified forest and partial faunalreserve of Comoé-Léraba, southwest Burkina Faso

Check List 11(1)doi:10.15560/
11.1.1557

Burkina Faso, Germany

Groom Q

Piecing together the biogeographic history of Chenopodium
vulvaria L. using botanical literature and collections

PeerJ 3: e723

doi:10.7717/peerj.723

Belgium

Groom Q

Using legacy botanical literature as asource of phytogeographical data

Plant Ecology and Evolution
148(2): 256-266

doi:10.5091/
plecevo.2015.1048

Belgium

Grossenbacher D,
Runquist RB, Goldberg
EE & Brandvain Y

Geographic range size is predicted by plant mating system

Ecology Letters
18(7): 706-713

doi:10.1111/ele.12449

United States

Grünwald CI, Jones
JM, Franz-Chávez H &Ahumada-Carrillo IT

A new species of Ophryacus (Serpentes: Viperidae:
Crotalinae) from eastern Mexico with commentsof the taxonomy of related pitvipers

Mesoamerican
Herpetology 2: 388-416

http://j.mp/2dkggtr

Mexico, United StatesaaGuisande C, Heine J,
García-Roselló E et al.

FactorsR: An RWizard Application for Identifying the Most
Likely Causal Factors in Controlling Species Richness

Diversity 7(4): 385-396

doi:10.3390/d7040385

Spain

Gutiérrez EE & Pine RH

No need to replace an “anomalous” primate (Primates)with an “anomalous” bear (Carnivora, Ursidae)

ZooKeys 487: 141-154

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.487.9176

United States

Harbert RS & Nixon KC

Climate reconstruction analysis using coexistence
likelihood estimation (CRACLE): A method forthe estimation of climate using vegetation

American Journal of
Botany 102(8): 1-13

doi:10.3732/ajb.1400500

United States

Harvey KJ, Nipperess DA,
Britton DR & Hughes L

Comparison of invertebrate herbivores on nativeand non-native Senecio species: Implications
for the enemy release hypothesis

Austral Ecology
40(5): 503-514

doi:10.1111/aec.12216

Australia

Herkt KMB, Barnikel G,
Skidmore AK & Fahr J

A high-resolution model of bat diversity
and endemism for continental Africa

Ecological Modelling
320: 9-28

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolmodel.
2015.09.009

Germany, Netherlands

Hernández-Ordóñez
O, Arroyo-Rodríguez V,
González-Hernández A et al.

Range extensions of amphibians and reptiles in thesoutheastern part of the Lacandona rainforest, Mexico

Revista Mexicana de
Biodiversidad 86(2): 457-468

doi:10.1016/j.
rmb.2015.04.005

MexicoHinchliff CE, Smith
SA, Allman JF et al.

Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy
into a comprehensive tree of life

Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of theUnited States of America
112(4): 12764-12769

doi:10.1073/
pnas.1423041112

United States

Hinojosa LF, Gaxiola
A, Pérez MF et al.

Non-congruent fossil and phylogenetic evidence on theevolution of climatic niche in the gondwana genus Nothofagus

Journal of Biogeography

doi:10.1111/jbi.12650

Chile, Argentina, Japan

Householder JE, Wittmann
F, Tobler MW & Janovec JP

Montane bias in lowland Amazonian Peatlands:
Plant assembly on heterogeneous landscapes andpotential significance to palynological inference

Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 423: 138-148

doi:10.1016/j.
palaeo.2015.01.029

Brazil, United States,
Germany, Peru

Huang J-P & Knowles LL

The species versus subspecies conundrum: quantitativedelimitation from integrating multiple data types within
a single Bayesian approach in Hercules beetles

Systematic Biology 65(1)doi:10.1093/
sysbio/syv119

United States

Hurtado-Gómez JP,
Grisales-Martínez FA &Rendón-Valencia BE

Starting to fill the gap: first record of Tantilla supracincta(Peters, 1863) (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Colombia

Check List 11(4): 1713

doi:10.15560/
11.4.1713

Colombia, Brazil

Hustad VP & Miller AN

Studies in the genus Glutinoglossum

Mycologia 107(3): 647-657

doi:10.3852/14-328

United States

Hustad VP & Miller AN

Maasoglossum, a basal genus in Geoglossomycetes

Mycoscience 56(6): 572-579

doi:10.1016/j.
myc.2015.05.003

United States

Idohou R, Ariño, Assogbadjo
AE, Kakai RG & Sinsin B

Knowledge of Diversity of Wild Palms (Arecaceae) in the
Republic of Benin: Finding Gaps in the National Inventory
by Combining Field and Digital Accessible Knowledge

Biodiversity Informatics
10: 45-55

doi:10.17161/
bi.v10i2.4914

Benin, Spain

Ingley SJ, Reina RG,
Bermingham E & Johnson JB

Phylogenetic analyses provide insights into the historicalbiogeography and evolution of Brachyrhaphis fishes

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 89: 104-114

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.04.013

United States, Panama

Inoue K, Lang BK and Berg DJ

Past climate change drives current genetic structureof an endangered freshwater mussel species.

Molecular Ecology
24: 1910-1926

doi:10.1111/mec.13156

United States

Isabirye BE, Masembe C, Akol
AM, Muyinza H, Rwomushana
I & Nankinga CK

Modeling the Potential Geographical Distribution
and Ecological Niche of Selected Fruit Fly(Diptera: Tephritidae) Species in Uganda

Journal of Plant and Pest
Science 2(1): 18-33

http://j.mp/2dkh01J

Uganda

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Iturbide M, Bedia J,
Herrera S, del Hierro O,
Pinto M & Gutiérrez JM

A framework for species distribution modellingwith improved pseudo-absence generation

Ecological Modelling
312(24): 166-174

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolmodel.
2015.05.018

Spain

Jaca TP, Phephu N & Condy G

Abutilon grandifolium

Flowering Plants of Africa 64

http://j.mp/1LdpAaf

South Africa

Jermakowicz E,
Wróblewska A, Brzosko
E, Mirski P & Hirse T

Phylogeographical structure of the boreal-montane orchid
Malaxis monophyllos as a result of multi-directional gene flow

Botanical Journal of
the Linnean Society
178(1): 138-154

doi:10.1111/boj.12268

Poland, Estonia

Jia DR, Wang YJ, Liu TL et al.

Diploid hybrid origin of Hippophaë gyantsensis(Elaeagnaceae) in the western Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society

doi:10.1111/bij.12707

China

Jiménez RR & Abarca JG

Records for the Mourning Gecko (Lepidodactylus
lugubris) and its expansion in Costa Rica

Mesoamerican Herpetology
2(2): 214-217

http://j.mp/1XfigBT

Costa Rica

Jordan GJ, Harrison PA,
Worth JRP, Williamson
GJ & Kirkpatrick JB

Palaeoendemic plants provide evidence for persistenceof open, well-watered vegetation since the Cretaceous

Global Ecology
and Biogeography25(2): 127-140

doi:10.1111/geb.12389

Australia, Japan

Käffer MI, Koch NM, Aptroot
A, Martins SN & De A

New records of corticolous lichens forSouth America and Brazil

Plant Ecology and Evolution
148(1): 111-118

doi:10.5091/
plecevo.2015.961

Brazil, Netherlands

Kartzinel TR, Campbell
DA & Trapnell DW

Spatial Patterns of Haplotype Variation in the
Epiphytic Bromeliad Catopsis nutans

Biotropica

doi:10.1111/btp.12272

United States

Khan AM, Qureshi R, Qaseem
MF, Munir M, Ilyas M & Saqib Z

Floristic Checklist of District Kotli, Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Pakistan Journal of Botany
47(5):1957-1968

http://j.mp/2dkhBR0

Pakistan

Kleckova I, Cesanek M,
Fric Z & Pellissier L

Diversification of the cold-adapted butterfly genus Oeneis
related to Holarctic biogeography and climatic niche shifts

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 92: 255-265

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.06.012

Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Switzerland,Kozhoridze G, Orlovsky
N, Orlovsky L, Blumberg
DG & Golan-Goldhirsh A

Geographic distribution and migration pathwaysof Pistacia – present, past and future

Ecography 38(11):1141-1154

doi:10.1111/ecog.01496

Israel

Kullander SO, Rahman M,
Norén M & Mollah AR

Why is Pseudosphromenus cupanus (Teleostei:
Osphronemidae) reported from Bangladesh,Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Pakistan?

Zootaxa 3990(4): 575-583

doi:10.11646/
zootaxa.3990.4.6

Sweden, Bangladesh

Laguna-Defior C, Pintado
A, Green TGA, Blanquer
JM & Sancho LG

Distributional and ecophysiological study on the Antarctic
lichens species pair Usnea antarctica/Usnea aurantiaco-atra

Polar Biology

doi:10.1007/s00300015-1832-7

Spain

Leach K, Montgomery
WI & Reid N

Biogeography, macroecology and species' traits mediate
competitive interactions in the order Lagomorpha

Mammal Review
45(2): 88-102

doi:10.1111/mam.12035

United Kingdom

Li G, Xu G, Guo K & Du S

Geographical boundary and climatic analysis of Pinus
tabulaeformis in China: Insights on its afforestation

Ecological Engineering
86: 75-84

doi:10.1016/j.
ecoleng.2015.10.032

China

Li SF, Mao LM, Spicer RA et al.

Late Miocene vegetation dynamics undermonsoonal climate in southwestern China

Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 425: 14-40

doi:10.1016/j.
palaeo.2015.02.030

China, United Kingdom

Li X, Dong F, Lei F et al.

Shaped by uneven Pleistocene climate: mitochondrial
phylogeographic pattern and population history ofWhite Wagtail Motacilla alba (Aves: Passeriformes)

Journal of Avian Biology

doi:10.1111/jav.00826

China, Sweden,
Denmark

Liede-Schumann S,
Khanumb R, Mumtaz AS ,Ghergheld I & Pahlevani A

Going west – A subtropical lineage (Vincetoxicum,
Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) expanding into Europe

Molecular Phylogenetics andEvolution 94A: 436-446

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.09.021

Germany, Pakistan,
United States, Iran

Lim HC, Zou FS & Sheldon FH

Genetic differentiation in two widespread, openforest bird species of Southeast Asia (Copsychus
saularis and Megalaima haemacephala):
Insights from ecological niche modeling

Current Zoology 61 (5)http://j.mp/2dkiYPM

United States, China

Loera I, Ickert-Bond
SM & Sosa V

Ecological consequences of contrasting dispersal
syndromes in New World Ephedra: higher rates ofniche evolution related to dispersal ability

Ecography 38(12): 1187-1199

doi:10.1111/ecog.01264

Mexico, United States

Loskutov IG, Melnikova
SV & Bagmet LV

Eco-geographical assessment of Avena L. wild species
at the VIR herbarium and genebank collection

Genetic Resources
and Crop Evolution

doi:10.1007/s10722015-0344-1

Russian Federation

Lyu N, Päckert M,
Tietze DT & Sun YH

Uncommon paleodistribution patterns of Chrysolophus
pheasants in east Asia: explanations and implications

Journal of Avian Biology
46(5): 528-537

doi:10.1111/jav.00590

China, Germany

Mairal M, Pokorny L, Aldasoro
JJ, Alarcón M & Sanmartín I

Ancient vicariance and climate-driven extinction explain
continental-wide disjunctions in Africa: the case of
the Rand Flora genus Canarina (Campanulaceae)

Molecular Ecology
24(6): 1335-1354

doi:10.1111/mec.13114

Spain

Mansanet-Salvador
CJ, Ferrer-Gallego PP,
Ferrando I & Laguna E

Notas sobre el complejo taxonómico Cardamine flexuosa with.
(cruciferae) y su presencia en la Comunidad Valenciana

Flora Montiberica 59: 72-82

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Isolation by environment in White-breasted Nuthatches(Sitta carolinensis) of the Madrean Archipelago
sky islands: a landscape genomics approach

Molecular Ecology
24(14): 3628-3638

doi:10.1111/mec.13258

United States

Marín-Gómez OH, Polanco
JM, Arango Giraldo D& Ospina Duque A

A New Population of the Hooded Antpitta (Grallaricula
cucullata: Grallaridae) for the Colombian Central Andes

Acta Biológica Colombiana,
20(1): 229-232

doi:10.15446/abc.
v20n1.42507

Colombia

Mason NA & Taylor SA

Differentially expressed genes match bill morphology
and plumage despite largely undifferentiatedgenomes in a Holarctic songbird

Molecular Ecology
24(12): 3009-3025

doi:10.1111/mec.13140

United States

McDonnell A, Fishbein
M, Quinn M & Hare T

Matelea chihuahuensis (Apocynaceae): An addition to theflora of the United States and a synopsis of the species

Journal of the BotanicalResearch Institute ofTexas 9(1): 187-194

http://j.mp/2dkgZLi

United States

McHugh JV & Chaboo CS

Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the
Families. Erotylidae Latreille, 1802

Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society
88(2): 274-282

doi:10.2317/kent88-02-274-282.1

United States

McQuillan MA & Rice AM

Differential effects of climate and species interactions
on range limits at a hybrid zone: potential direct
and indirect impacts of climate change

Ecology and Evolution
5(21): 5120-5137

doi:10.1002/ece3.1774

United States

Mendoza ÁM, Ospina
OE, Cárdenas-Henao
H & García-R JC

A likelihood inference of historical biogeography
in the world’s most diverse terrestrial vertebrate
genus: Diversification of direct-developing frogs(Craugastoridae: Pristimantis) across the Neotropics

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 85: 50-58

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.02.001

Colombia, Puerto
Rico, New ZealandMeyer C, Kreft H,
Guralnick RP & Jetz W

Global priorities for an effective informationbasis of biodiversity distributions

Nature Communications
6: 8221

doi:10.1038/ncomms9221

Germany, United States

Mill RRA Monographic Revision of the Genus Podocarpus(Podocarpaceae): III. The Species of the Central
American and Northern Mexico Bioregions

Edinburgh Journal of
Botany 72(2): 243-341

doi:10.1017/
S0960428615000050

United Kingdom

Molineri C, Salles
FF & Peters JG

Phylogeny and biogeography of Asthenopodinae with arevision of Asthenopus, reinstatement of Asthenopodes,
and the description of the new genera Hubbardipes andPriasthenopus (Ephemeroptera, Polymitarcyidae)

Zookeys 478: 45-128.

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.478.8057

Argentina, Brazil,
United States

Moonlight PW, Richardson
JE, Tebbitt MC et al.

Continental-scale diversification patterns in a megadiverse
genus: the biogeography of Neotropical Begonia

Journal of Biogeography
42(6): 1137-1149

doi:10.1111/jbi.12496

United Kingdom,
Colombia, UnitedStates, Singapore,
China, Chinese Taipei

Moreau CVE, Aguera A,
Jossart Q & Danis B

Southern Ocean Asteroidea: a proposed update
for the Register of Antarctic Marine Species

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e7062

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e7062

BelgiumMoreno-Amata E, Mateo
RG, Nieto-Lugilde D et al.

Impact of model complexity on cross-temporaltransferability in Maxent species distribution models:An assessment using paleobotanical data

Ecological Modelling
312: 308-317

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolmodel.
2015.05.035

Spain, Switzerland,
Denmark, United States

Morris H, Plavcová
L, Cvecko P et al.

A global analysis of parenchyma tissue fractions
in secondary xylem of seed plants

New Phytologist
209(4): 1553-1565

doi:10.1111/nph.13737

Germany, Canada,
United States,
Australia, China

Mota-Vargas C &Rojas-Soto OR

Taxonomy and ecological niche modeling: Implications forthe conservation of wood partridges (genus Dendrortyx)

Journal for Nature
Conservation 29: 1-13

doi:10.1016/j.
jnc.2015.10.003

MexicoNeubauer TA ,Harzhauser
M, Mandic O, Georgopoulou
E & Kroh A

Paleobiogeography and historical biogeography of thenon-marine caenogastropod family melanopsidae

Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology
444(15): 124-143

doi:10.1016/j.
palaeo.2015.12.017

AustriaaNoguera-Urbano EA& Escalante T

Datos geográficos de los murciélagos(Chiroptera) en el Neotrópico

Revista de Biología
Tropical 62(1): 211-225

http://j.mp/1QoJcts

MexicoNürk NM, Uribe-Convers
S, Gehrke B, Tank DC& Blattner FR

Oligocene niche shift, Miocene diversification – cold
tolerance and accelerated speciation rates in the
St. John’s Worts (Hypericum, Hypericaceae)

BMC Evolutionary
Biology 15: 80

doi:10.1186/s12862015-0359-4

Germany, United StatesaOcheltree TW, Nippert
JB & Prasad PVV

A safety vs efficiency trade-off identified in thehydraulic pathway of grass leaves is decoupled fromphotosynthesis, stomatal conductance and precipitation

New Phytologist

doi:10.1111/nph.13781

United States

Ogburn RM & Edwards EJ

Life history lability underlies rapid climate niche
evolution in the angiosperm clade Montiaceae

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 92: 181-192

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.06.006

United States

Oliveira U, Brescovit
AD & Santos AJ

Delimiting Areas of Endemism through Kernel Interpolation

PLoS ONE 10(1): e0116673

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0116673

BrazilOnstein RE, Carter RJ,
Xing YW, Richardson
JE & Linder HP

Do Mediterranean-type ecosystems have a common history?
– insights from the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae)

Evolution 69(3): 756-71

doi:10.1111/evo.12605

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Orlov AM & Cotton CF

New data on the rare deep-sea skate Amblyraja
jenseni (Rajidae) from the North Atlantic Ocean

Journal of Ichthyology
55(4): 478-496

doi:10.1134/
S0032945215040086

Russian Federation,
United States

Ortego J, Noguerales V,
Gugger PF & Sork VL

Evolutionary and demographic history of the Californian
scrub white oak species complex: An integrative approach

Molecular Ecology
24(24): 6188-6208

doi:10.1111/mec.13457

Spain, United States

Otálora MAG, Belinchón
R, Prieto M, Aragón G,
Izquierdo P & Martínez I

The threatened epiphytic lichen Lobaria pulmonaria
in the Iberian Peninsula: Genetic diversity andstructure across a latitudinal gradientFungal Biology
119(9): 802-811

doi:10.1016/j.
funbio.2015.05.004

Spain

Owen CL, Bracken-Grissom
H, Stern D & Crandall KA

A synthetic phylogeny of freshwater
crayfish: insights for conservation

Philosophical Transactions
B 370(1662): 20140009

doi:10.1098/
rstb.2014.0009

United States

Owens HL

Evolution of codfishes (Teleostei: Gadinae) in geographicaland ecological space: evidence that physiologicallimits drove diversification of subarctic fishes

Journal of Biogeography
42(6): 1091-1102

doi:10.1111/jbi.12483

United States

Oyama K, Martínez-Ramos
M, Peñaloza-Ramírez
JM, Rocha-Ramírez V,
Armenta-Medina EG &Hernández-Soto P

Population genetic structure of an extremely
logged tree species Guaiacum sanctum L.
in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Botanical Sciencesdoi:10.17129/botsci.278

Mexico, United States

Paz A, Ibáñez R, Lips
KR & Crawford AJ

Testing the role of ecology and life history in
structuring genetic variation across a landscape:A trait-based phylogeographic approach

Molecular Ecology
24(14): 3723–3737

doi:10.1111/mec.13275

Colombia, Panama,
United States

Pellissier L

Stability and the competition-dispersal trade-off asdrivers of speciation and biodiversity gradients

Frontiers in Ecology
and Evolution 3:52

doi:10.3389/
fevo.2015.00052

Switzerland

Pellissier L, Eidesen
PB, Ehrich D et al.

Past climate-driven range shifts and population
genetic diversity in arctic plants

Journal of Biogeography

doi:10.1111/jbi.12657

Switzerland,
Norway, Austria,
Denmark, Finland

Pellissier L, Litsios G,
Fishbein M, Salamin N,
Agrawal AA & Rasmann S

Different rates of defense evolution and niche preferencesin clonal and nonclonal milkweeds (Asclepias spp.)

New Phytologist
209(3): 1230-1239

doi:10.1111/nph.13649

Switzerland,
United States

Perea S & Doadrio I

Phylogeography, historical demography and habitat
suitability modelling of freshwater fishes inhabiting
seasonally fluctuating Mediterranean river systems: acase study using the Iberian cyprinid Squalius valentinus

Molecular Ecology
24(12) 3706-3722

doi:10.1111/mec.13274

Spain

Perez MF, Carstens BC,
Rodrigues GL & Moraes EV

Anonymous nuclear markers reveal taxonomic incongruenceand long-term disjunction in a cactus species complex
with continental-island distribution in South America

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 95: 11-19

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.11.005

Brazil, United States

Pietsch TW & Orr JW

Fishes of the Salish Sea: a compilationand distributional analysis

NOAA Professional
Paper NMFS 18

http://j.mp/2dkjX2t

United States

Poisot T, Gravel D,
Leroux S et al.

Synthetic datasets and community tools forthe rapid testing of ecological hypotheses

Ecography

doi:10.1111/ecog.01941

Canada, United States,
New Zealand, Spain

Popiela A, Łyskob A,
Attila Molnár AV, Kąckid
Z & Lukácse BA

Distribution, morphology and habitats of Elatine
triandra (Elatinaceae) in Europe, with particularreference to the central part of the continent

Acta Botanica Gallica: Botany
Letters 162(4): 325-337

doi:10.1080/125380
78.2015.1088470

Poland, Hungary

Ramírez-Barahona
S & Luna-Vega I

Geographic Differentiation of Tree Ferns(Cyatheales) in Tropical America

American Fern Journal105(2): 73-85

doi:10.1640/amfj105-02-73-85.1

MexicoRijal DP, Alm T, Jahodová
Š, Stenøien HK & Alsos IG

Reconstructing the invasion history of Heracleum
persicum (Apiaceae) into Europe

Molecular Ecology
24(22): 5522-5543

doi:10.1111/mec.13411

Norway, Czech Republic

Rodríguez A, Gómez JF& Nieves-Aldrey JL

Modeling the potential distribution and conservation
status of three species of oak gall wasps(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in the Iberian range

Journal of Insect
Conservation 19(5): 921-934

doi:10.1007/s10841015-9810-5

Spain

Rodríguez-Correa H, Oyama
K, MacGregor-Fors I &González-Rodríguez A

How Are Oaks Distributed in the Neotropics?
A Perspective from Species Turnover, Areasof Endemism, and Climatic Niches

International Journal of Plant
Sciences 176(3): 222-231

doi:10.1086/679904

MexicoRodríguez-Gómez
F & Ornelas JF

At the passing gate: past introgression in the processof species formation between Amazilia violiceps and A.
viridifrons hummingbirds along the Mexican Transition Zone

Journal of Biogeography
42(7): 1305-1318

doi:10.1111/jbi.12506

MexicoRodríguez-San Pedro A,
Peñaranda DA, Allendes
JL & Castillo MLC

Update on the distribution of Myotis atacamensis(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): first record from
central Chile and description of echolocation calls

Chiroptera Neotropical21(2): 1342-1346

http://j.mp/2dkiwRI

Chile

Rojas C, Lado C & Valverde R

First record of the myxomycete genus
Colloderma in Central America

Check List 11(4): 1716, 21

doi:10.15560/
11.4.1716

Spain, Costa Rica

Rosenfeld S, Aldea C, MansillaA, Marambio J & Ojeda J

Richness, systematics, and distribution of molluscs
associated with the macroalga Gigartina skottsbergii in theStrait of Magellan, Chile: A biogeographic affinity study

ZooKeys 519: 49-100

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.519.9676

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Rubel F, Brugger K,
Pfeffer M et al.

Geographical distribution of Dermacentor marginatus
and Dermacentor reticulatus in Europe

Ticks and Tick-borne
Diseases 7(1): 224-233

doi:10.1016/j.
ttbdis.2015.10.015

Austria, Germany,
Romania, Ukraine

Ruiz-Sanchez E & Sosa V

Origin and evolution of fleshy fruit in woody bamboos

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 91: 123-134

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.05.020

MexicoRuiz-Sánchez A, Renton
K, Landgrave-Ramírez R,
Mora-Aguilar EF, Rojas-Soto O

Ecological niche variation in the Wilson's
Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) complex

Journal of Avian Biology
Volume 46(5): 516-527

doi:10.1111/jav.00531

MexicoSakalli A

How can effect the synergy of climate change, soil
units and vegetation groups the potential global
distribution of plants up to 2300: a modelling study
for prediction of potential global distribution andmigration of the N2 fixing species Alnus spp.

Biogeosciences
Discussions 12: 815-864

doi:10.5194/bgd12-815-2015

Italy

Salas-Araiza MD, GuzmánMendoza R, Martínez-Jaime
OA, González-Márquez
MA & Figueroa AL

Species Richness of Noctuid Moths (Lepidoptera
Noctuidae) from the State of Guanajuato, Mexico

Florida Entomologist
98(4): 1262-1265

doi:10.1653/
024.098.0444

MexicoSanchez A

Fidelity and Promiscuity in an Ant-Plant Mutualism:
A Case Study of Triplaris and Pseudomyrmex

PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143535

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0143535

Colombia

Sandel B, Gutiérrez AG,
Reich PB, Schrodt F,
Dickie J & Kattge J

Estimating the missing species bias
in plant trait measurements

Journal of Vegetation
Science 26(5): 828-838

doi:10.1111/jvs.12292

Denmark, Chile, UnitedStates, Australia,
Germany, United
Kingdom, Switzerland

Sanyal A & Decocq G

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Crambe maritima

Journal of Ecology
103: 769-788

doi:10.1111/13652745.12389

FranceSchiaparelli S, Ahyong
ST & Bowden D

Evidence of niche conservatism and host fidelity
in the polar shrimp Lebbeus kiae n. sp. (Decapoda:
Caridea: Thoridae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Hydrobiologia 761(1): 45-69

doi:10.1007/s10750015-2403-1

Italy, Australia,
New Zealand

Schuettpelz E, Pryer
KM & Windham MD

A Unified Approach to Taxonomic Delimitation in
the Fern Genus Pentagramma (Pteridaceae)

Systematic Botany40(3):629-644

doi:10.1600/
036364415X689366

United States

Schwallier R, Raes N,
de Boer HJ, Vos R A, vanVugt RR & Gravendeel B

Phylogenetic analysis of niche divergence reveals
distinct evolutionary histories and climate change
implications for tropical carnivorous pitcher plants

Diversity and Distributions
22(1): 97-110

doi:10.1111/ddi.12382

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Sweden, Norway

Serrano-Serrano ML, Perret
M, Guignard M, Chautems
A, Silvestro D & Salamin N

Decoupled evolution of floral traits and climatic
preferences in a clade of Neotropical Gesneriaceae

BMC Evolutionary
Biology 15: 247

doi:10.1186/s12862015-0527-6

Switzerland, SwedenaaSevink J, Verstraten JM,
Kooijman AM et al.

Rare Moss-Built Microterraces in a High-Altitude, Acid
Mine Drainage-Polluted Stream (Cordillera Negra, Peru)

Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Volume 22(1): 97-110

doi:10.1007/s11270015-2390-x

Netherlands, Peru

Shabani F & Kumar L

Should species distribution models use only
native or exotic records of existence or both?

Ecological Informatics
29: 57-65

doi:10.1016/j.
ecoinf.2015.07.006

Australia

Sheehan MJ, Botero
CA, Hendry TA et al.

Different axes of environmental variation explain
the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest
founding associations in Polistes paper wasps

Ecology Letters
18(10): 1057-1067

doi:10.1111/ele.12488

United States, Panamá

Silva DP, Varela S, Nemésio
A & De Marco P Jr

Adding Biotic Interactions into Paleodistribution Models: A
Host-Cleptoparasite Complex of Neotropical Orchid Bees

PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129890

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0129890

Brazil, Germany

Sosnovsky Y

Sucking herbivore assemblage composition on greenhouse
Ficus correlates with host plant leaf architecture

Arthropod-Plant
Interactions 10(1): 55-69

doi:10.1007/s11829015-9408-6

UkraineSoto-Centeno JA, O'Brien
M & Simmons NB

The Importance of Late Quaternary Climate Change andKarst on Distributions of Caribbean Mormoopid Bats

American Museum
Novitates 3847: 1-32

doi:10.1206/3847.1

United States

Spalink D, Drew BT,
Pace MC et al.

Evolution of geographical place and niche
space: Patterns of diversification in the North
American sedge (Cyperaceae) flora

Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 95: 183-195

doi:10.1016/j.
ympev.2015.09.028

United States, China

Spano CA, Hernández
CE & Rivadeneira MM

Evolutionary dispersal drives the latitudinal
diversity gradient of stony corals

Ecography

doi:10.1111/ecog.01855

Chile

Sproul JS, Houston DD,
Nelson CR, Evans RP,
Crandall KA & Shiozawa DK

Climate oscillations, glacial refugia, and dispersal
ability factors influencing the genetic structureof the least salmonfly, Pteronarcella badia(Plecoptera), in Western North America

BMC Evolutionary
Biology 15: 279

doi:10.1186/s12862015-0553-4

United States

Steadman DW, Albury
NA, Kakuk B et al.

Vertebrate community on an ice-age Caribbean island

Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of theUnited States of America
112(44): E5963-E5971

doi:10.1073/
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Stenoien C, McCoshum
S, Caldwell W, De Anda
A & Oberhauser K

New Reports that Monarch Butterflies (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae, Danaus plexippus Linnaeus) are
Hosts for a Pupal Parasitoid (Hymenoptera:
Chalcidoidae, Pteromalus cassotis Walker)

Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society
88(1): 16-26

doi:10.2317/
JKES1402.22.1

United States

Tamayo J & Cruz L

Composición y estructura aviar en dos parchesde bosque seco en el valle del cauca

Boletin Cientifico del Centrode Museos Hist. Nat. U. de
Caldas 19(1): 125-146

doi:10.17151/
bccm.2015.19.1.9

Colombia

Thesing BD, Noyes RD,
Starkey DE & Shepard DB

Pleistocene climatic fluctuations explain the disjunctdistribution and complex phylogeographic structure of theSouthern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon serratus

Evolutionary Ecology
30(1): 89-104

doi:10.1007/s10682015-9794-3

United States

Title PO & Burns KJ

Rates of climatic niche evolution are correlatedwith species richness in a large and ecologicallydiverse radiation of songbirds

Ecology Letters
18(5): 433-440

doi:10.1111/ele.12422

United States

Tobón-Sampedro A& Rojas-Soto OR

The geographic and seasonal potential distribution of
the little known Fuertes’s Oriole Icterus fuertesi

Bird Conservation
International 25(4): 489-502

doi:10.1017/
S0959270914000501

MexicoTourne DCM Martorano
LG, Brienza S et al.

Potential topoclimatic zones as support for forest
plantation in the Amazon: Advances and challenges
to growing paricá (Schizolobium amazonicum)

Environmental Development

doi:10.1016/j.
envdev.2015.11.002

BrazilUllah Z, Ahmad M & Khgan SM

Phytogeographic analysis and Diversity of grasses
and sedges (Poales) of Northern Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of
Botany 47(SI): 93-104

http://j.mp/1Sdbq0j

Pakistan

Ureña-Aranda CA, RojasSoto O, Martínez-Meyer E,
Yáñez-Arenas C, Landgrave
Ramírez R & Espinosade los Monteros A

Using Range-Wide Abundance Modeling to Identify
Key Conservation Areas for the Micro-Endemic
Bolson Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus)

PLoS ONE 10(6): e0131452

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0131452

MexicoVelasco JA, Martínez-Meyer
E, Flores-Villela O et al.

Climatic niche attributes anddiversification in Anolis lizards

Journal of Biogeography
43(1): 134–144

doi:10.1111/jbi.12627

Germany, Mexico,
United Kingdom
Colombia

Venegas-Barrera CS,
Correa-Sandoval A, MoraOlivo A & Horta-Vega JV

Representatividad geográfica y ambiental de losregistros de gastrópodos, pteridofitas y plantas
acuáticas en el estado de Tamaulipas, México

Revista Mexicana de
Biodiversidad 86(3): 719-729

doi:10.1016/j.
rmb.2015.06.002

MexicoVerheijen LM, Aerts R,
Bönisch G, Kattge J&Van Bodegom PM

Variation in trait trade-offs allows differentiation
among predefined plant functional types:
implications for predictive ecology

New Phytologist
209(2): 563-575

doi:10.1111/nph.13623

Netherlands, Germany

Villaverde T, Escudero M,
Luceño M & Martín-Bravo S

Long-distance dispersal during the middle–latePleistocene explains the bipolar disjunctionof Carex maritima (Cyperaceae)

Journal of Biogeography42(10): 1820-1831

doi:10.1111/jbi.12559

Spain

Volis S, Tu T, Deng T,
Zaretsky M, Fogel K, Sun H

Phylogeographic study of Mandragora L. reveals
a case of ancient human assisted migration

Israel Journal of Plant
Sciences 62(3): 176-186

doi:10.1080/079299
78.2015.1063922

China, Israel

Wasof S, Lenoir J,
Aarrestad PA et al.

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant
species keep the same climatic niches

Global Ecology and
Biogeography 24(12):1401-1412

doi:10.1111/geb.12375

France, Norway,
United States, United
Kingdom, Sweden,
Denmark, Germany,
Austria, Switzerland,
Iceland, Finland,
Belgium, Estonia

Watling JI, Laura A. Brandt
LA, Bucklin DA et al.

Performance metrics and variance partitioning reveal
sources of uncertainty in species distribution models

Ecological Modelling
309–310(10–24): 48-59

doi:10.1016/j.
ecolmodel.
2015.03.017

United States

Werner GDA, Cornwell WK,
Cornelissen JHC & Kiers ET

Evolutionary signals of symbiotic persistencein the legume–rhizobia mutualism

Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences
112(33): 10101-10103

doi:10.1073/
pnas.1424030112

Netherlands, Australia

Wieczorek K, Kanturski
M, Junkiert L & BugajNawrocka A

A comparative morphometric study of the genus
Drepanosiphoniella Davatchi, Hille Ris Lambers &Remaudière (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Drepanosiphinae)

Zoologischer Anzeiger - A
Journal of Comparative
Zoology 257: 39-53

doi:10.1016/j.
jcz.2015.04.002

PolandWillis CG, Franzone BF,
Xi ZX & Davis CC

Corrigendum: The establishment of Central American
migratory corridors and the biogeographic origins
of seasonally dry tropical forests in Mexico

Frontiers in Genetics 6: 64

doi:10.3389/
fgene.2015.00064

United States

Willis KJ, Seddon
AWR, Long PR et al.

Remote assessment of locally important ecologicalfeatures across landscapes: how representative of reality?

Ecological Applications
25: 1290-1302

doi:10.1890/14-1431.1

United Kingdom,
NorwayXing Y, Gandolfo MA& Linder HP

The Cenozoic biogeographical evolution of woody
angiosperms inferred from fossil distributions.
Global Ecology and Biogeography

Global Ecology and
Biogeography 24(11):1290-1301

doi:10.1111/geb.12383

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESYu H, Zhang Y, Liu L,
Qi W, Li S & Hu Z

Combining the least cost path method withpopulation genetic data and species distribution
models to identify landscape connectivity during
the late Quaternary in Himalayan hemlock

Ecology and Evolution
5(24): 5781-5791

doi:10.1002/ece3.1840

China

Zha LS, Wen TC, Kang
JC & Hyde KD

The Genus Bolivaritettix in Thailand (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae:
Metrodorinae), with Three New Species and One New Record

Entomological News
125(2): 136-146

doi:10.3157/
021.125.0207

China, Thailand

Zhang X, Li Y, Liu C, Xia
T, Zhang Q & Fang Y

Phylogeography of the temperate tree species
Quercus acutissima in China: Inferencesfrom chloroplast DNA variations

Biochemical Systematics
and Ecology 63: 190-197

doi:10.1016/j.
bse.2015.10.010

China

Zhao JL, Xia YM, Cannon
CH, Kress WJ & Li QJ

Evolutionary diversification of alpine ginger
reflects the early uplift of the Himalayan-Tibetan
Plateau and rapid extrusion of Indochina

Gondwana Researchdoi:10.1016/j.
gr.2015.02.004

China, United States

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DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIES

Adriaens T, SuttonCroft M, Owen K et al.

Trying to engage the crowd in recording invasive
alien species in Europe: experiences from two
smartphone applications in northwest Europe

Management of
Biological Invasions 6

http://bit.ly/2dklWDV

Belgium, United
Kingdom, Netherlands,
Germany

August T, Harvey M,
Lightfoot P, Kilbey D,
Papadopoulos T & Jepson P

Emerging technologies for biological recording

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society
115(3): 731-749

doi:10.1111/bij.12534

United Kingdom

Authmann C, Beilschmidt
C, Drönner J, Mattig
M & Seeger B

VAT: A System for Visualizing, Analyzing andTransforming Spatial Data in Science

Datenbank-Spektrum
15(3): 175-184

doi:10.1007/s13222015-0197-yGermany

Belbin L & Williams KJ

Towards a national bio-environmental data facility:
experiences from the Atlas of Living Australia

International Journal of
Geographical Information
Science 30(1): 108-125

doi:10.1080/136588
16.2015.1077962

Australia

Böhm M & Collen B

Toward equality of biodiversity knowledge
through technology transfer

Conservation Biology
29(5): 1290–1302

doi:10.1111/cobi.12529

United Kingdom

Candela L, Castelli D,
Manghi P & Tani A

Data journals: A survey

Journal of the Association
for Information Scienceand Technology 66(9):1747–1762

doi:10.1002/asi.23358

Italy

Cardoso SD, Amanqui FK,
Serique KJA, dos Santos
JLC & Moreira DA

SWI: A Semantic Web Interactive Gazetteer
to support Linked Open Data

Future Generation Computer
Systems 54: 389-398

doi:10.1016/j.
future.2015.05.006

BrazilCostello MJ, Claus S,
Dekeyzer S et al.

Biological and ecological traits of marine species

PeerJ 3:e1201

doi:10.7717/peerj.1201

New Zealand,
Belgium, Denmark,
United Kingdom

Costello MJ, Vanhoorne
B & Appeltans W

Conservation of biodiversity through taxonomy, data
publication, and collaborative infrastructures

Conservation Biology
29(4): 1094-1099

doi:10.1111/cobi.12496

New Zealand, Belgium

Deck J, Guralnick
R, Walls R et al.

Meeting report: Identifying practical applicationsof ontologies for biodiversity informatics

Standards in Genomic
Sciences 10: 25

doi:10.1186/s40793015-0014-0

United States, Canada

Dikow T & Agosti D

Utilizing online resources for taxonomy: a cybercatalog of
Afrotropical apiocerid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Apioceridae)

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e5707

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e5707

United States,
Switzerland

Feeley K

Are We Filling the Data Void? An Assessment of theAmount and Extent of Plant Collection Records andCensus Data Available for Tropical South America

PLoS ONE 10(4): e0125629

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0125629

United States

González Vilas L, Guisande
C, Vari RP et al.

Geospatial data of freshwater habitats for macroecologicalstudies: an example with freshwater fishesInternational Journal of
Geographical Information
Science 30(1): 126-141

doi:10.1080/136588
16.2015.1072629

Spain, UnitedStates, Colombia

Guralnick RP, Cellinese
N, Deck J et al.

Community Next Steps for Making Globally Unique
Identifiers Work for Biocollections Data

Zookeys (494):133–154

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.494.9352

United States, Bulgaria,
Switzerland, Germany,
United Kingdom

Heerlien M, van Leusen J,
Schnörr S, de Jong-Kole S,
Raes N & van Hulsen K

The Natural History Production Line

Journal on Computing andCultural Heritage 8(1): 3

doi:10.1145/2644822

Netherlands

Isaac NJB & Pocock MJOBias and information in biological records

Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society
115(3): 522-53

doi:10.1111/bij.12532

United Kingdom

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Kelbert P, Droege G,
Barker K et al.

B-HIT - A Tool for Harvesting and Indexing Biodiversity Data

PLoS One 10(11):e0142240

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0142240

Germany, United States;
Denmark; Australia

Kong X, Huang M & Duan R

SDMdata: A Web-Based Software Tool forCollecting Species Occurrence Records

PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128295

doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0128295

China

Maldonado C, Molina
CI, Zizka A et al.

Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of
Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?

Global Ecology and
Biogeography 24(8): 973-984

doi:10.1111/geb.12326

Denmark, Bolivia,
Sweden, UnitedStates, Peru, Brazil

Miller J, Agosti D,
Penev L et al.

Integrating and visualizing primary data fromprospective and legacy taxonomic literature

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e5063

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063

Netherlands,
Switzerland, Bulgaria,
Germany, Australia,
United Kingdom

Miller J, Georgiev T, Stoev
P, Sautter G & Penev L

Corrected data re-harvested: curating literature in
the era of networked biodiversity informatics

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e4552

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4552

Netherlands,
Switzerland, Bulgaria

Miyazaki Y, Murase A, Shiina
M, Masui R & Senou H

Integrating and Utilizing Citizen Biodiversity Data on
the Web for Science: An Example of a Rare Triggerfish
Hybrid Image Provided by a Sport Fisherman

Journal of Coastal Research
31(4): 1035-1039

doi:10.2112/
JCOASTRES-D-14-00170.1

Japan

Nelson G, Sweeney P,
Wallace LE et al.

Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets andPackets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi

Applications in Plant
Sciences 3 (9): 1500065.

doi:10.3732/
apps.1500065

United States

Provete DB

Editorial: Wherefore and whither a Check
List? The journal at the age of 10

Check List 11(4): 1680

doi:10.15560/11.4.1680

BrazilRamirez KS, Döring M,
Eisenhauer N et al.

Towards a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data

Frontiers in Ecology
and Evolution 3: 91

doi:10.3389/
fevo.2015.00091

Netherlands, Denmark,Germany, Italy, UnitedStates, Canada,
United Kingdom

Thessen AE, Bunker DE,
Buttigieg PL et al.

Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment

PeerJ 3:e1470

doi:10.7717/peerj.1470

aUnited States,
Germany, Argentina,
Netherlands

Vandepitte L, Bosch S,
Tyberghein L et al.

Fishing for data and sorting the catch: assessing
the data quality, completeness and fitness for useof data in marine biogeographic databases

Database 2015: bau125

doi:10.1093/
database/bau125

BelgiumaWetzel FT, Saarenmaa H,
Regan E, Martin CS, Mergen
P, Smirnova L, Ó Tuama É,
Camacho FAG, Hoffmann
A, Vohland K & Häuser CL

The roles and contributions of Biodiversity Observation
Networks (BONs) in better tracking progress to 2020
biodiversity targets: a European case study

Biodiversity 16(2-3): 137-149

doi:10.1080/
14888386.
2015.1075902

Finland, Germany,
United Kingdom,
Belgium, Denmark,SpainWisz MS, Broennimann
O, Grønkjær P et al.

Reply to 'Sources of uncertainties in cod distribution models'Nature Climate Change
5: 790-791

doi:10.1038/nclimate2762

Denmark, Greenland,
Switzerland, France

AUTHORSTITLE

JOURNAL

DOI/URLAUTHOR COUNTRIESBrosens D, Breine J, Van
Thuyne G, Belpaire C,
Desmet P & Verreycken H

VIS – A database on the distribution of fishes ininland and estuarine waters in Flanders, Belgium

ZooKeys 475: 119-145

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.475.8556

Belgium

Dikow T

Review of Anasillomos Londt, 1983 with the descriptionof a new species (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae)

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e4652

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4652

United States

Gastauer M, Leyh W, Miazaki
AS & Meira-Neto JAA

Vascular plant community composition from thecampos rupestres of the Itacolomi State Park, Brazil

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e4507

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4507

BrazilIsaia M, Paschetta
M & Chiarle A

Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae)of the Site of Community Importance and Special
Area of Conservation “Alpi Marittime” (NW Italy)

Zoosystema 37(1): 57–114

doi:10.5252/z2015n1a4

Italy

Migeon A

The Jean Gutierrez spider mite collection

ZooKeys 489: 15-24

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.489.9292

FranceOuvrard D, Burckhardt
D & Cocquempot C

An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta:
Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park,with seven new records for France and one new Synonymy

Zoosystema 37(1): 251-271.

doi:10.5252/z2015n1a13

United Kingdom;
Switzerland; FranceaParys KA, Tripodi AD& Sampson BJ

The Giant Resin Bee, Megachile sculpturalis Smith: New
Distributional Records for the Mid- and Gulf-south USA

Biodiversity Data
Journal 3: e6733

doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e6733

United States

Pastor de Ward C, Lo Russo
V, Villares G, Milano V,
Miyashiro L & Mazzanti R

Free-living marine nematodes from San
Julián Bay (Santa Cruz, Argentina)

ZooKeys 489: 133-144

doi:10.3897/
zookeys.489.7311

ArgentinaaPérez-Luque AJ, SánchezRojas CP, Zamora R,
Pérez-Pérez R & Bonet FJ

Dataset of Phenology of Mediterranean highmountain meadows flora (Sierra Nevada, Spain)

PhytoKeys 46: 89-107

doi:10.3897/
phytokeys.46.9116

Spain

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Wetterer JK & Snelling GC

Geographic distribution of Labidus coecus (Latr.)(Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a subterranean army ant

Journal of Hymenoptera
Research 44: 31-38

doi:10.3897/JHR.44.4672

United States

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