Alexander Singer

TL;DR: This work identifies six biological mechanisms that commonly shape responses to climate change yet are too often missing from current predictive models and prioritize the types of information needed to inform each of these mechanisms, and suggests proxies for data that are missing or difficult to collect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contrast the extremes of the correlative-process spectrum of species distribution models with respect to core assumptions, model building and selection strategies, validation, uncertainties, common errors and the questions they are most suited to answer.

TL;DR: This synthesis outlines the development of ‘species interaction distribution models’ (SIDMs), which aim to incorporate multispecies interactions at large spatial extents using interaction matrices using error matrices in multivariate regression models.

TL;DR: A demographic research agenda is formulated that entails advances in incorporating process-based models of demographic responses and range dynamics into a statistical framework, systematic collection of data on temporal changes in distribution and abundance and on the response of demographic rates to environmental variation, and improved theoretical understanding of the scaling of demographics rates and the dynamics of spatially coupled populations.

TL;DR: The GlobTherm database contains experimentally derived species’ thermal tolerance data currently comprising over 2,000 species of terrestrial, freshwater, intertidal and marine multicellular algae, plants, fungi, and animals to enable further investigations on the effects of climate on the distribution of life on Earth.