A. Townsend Peterson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed and compared priority sites for conservation and restoration of woody plants under diverse climate and land use scenarios, considering socioeconomic costs, presence of protected areas and distribution of forest remnants.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of distinguishing the regional definition (endemism) from the areal definition (range restriction) is emphasized, and investigators are encouraged to consider multiple spatial scales and geographic dimensions in evaluations of biodiversity.

TL;DR: A first detailed phylogeographic and phylogenetic study on Mesoamerican populations of Buarremon brush-finches signals the existence of strong differentiation among populations with a clear geographic structure, and demonstrates a lack of concordance with plumage patterns.

TL;DR: This article examined the feasibility of assembling such data resources for terrestrial systems on worldwide extents, to evaluate whether they can be feasibly characterized globally, and found large-scale, consistent information gaps across five EBV-related dimensions (genetic composition, species populations, species traits, community composition, and primary biodiversity data), most markedly across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe; lesser gaps cover much of Asia and South America.

TL;DR: This work uses ecological niche modeling and general circulation model outputs to estimate future potential geographic distributions of 111 Canadian butterfly species, finding one interesting feature is the appearance of disjunctions in species' distributions, hence creating "vicariant events" over very short time periods.