Duncan Golicher

TL;DR: The Pseudorasbora parva invasion has provided quantitative data for the development of 1) early warning systems across different spatial scales; 2) rapid eradication programmes prior to natural spread in open systems and 3) sound risk assessments with emphasis on plasticity of life history traits.

TL;DR: Taxonstand, a nr package to automatically standardise plant names using The Plant List is presented, which greatly facilitates the preparation of large vegetation databases prior to their analyses, particularly when they cover broad geographical areas or contain data from regions with rich floras where taxonomic problems have not been resolved for many of their taxa.

TL;DR: SDMs have a great potential to support biodiversity conservation in the tropics, by supporting the development of conservation strategies and plans, identifying knowledge gaps, and providing a tool to examine the potential impacts of environmental change, but for this potential to be fully realized, problems of data quality and availability need to be overcome.

TL;DR: In a survey of 438 research papers published in the journal Landscape Ecology for the years 2004-2008, only 36% explicitly mentioned remote sensing as mentioned in this paper. But the majority of these studies focused on the analysis of spatial patterns and their relationship to ecological processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data on tree species diversity from 195 field plots in 16 tropical montane forest fragments in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and identified five community types.