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Guy F. Midgley
Researcher at Stellenbosch University
Publications - 234
Citations - 34165
Guy F. Midgley is an academic researcher from Stellenbosch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 217 publications receiving 30649 citations. Previous affiliations of Guy F. Midgley include University of Cape Town & International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
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Assessing the impacts of climate change and land transformation on Banksia in the South West Australian Floristic Region
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Maxent to relate current environmental conditions to occurrence data for 18 Banksia species, and subsequently made spatial predictions using two simple dispersal scenarios (zero and universal), for three climate-severity scenarios at 2070, taking the impacts of land transformation on species' ranges into account.
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BioMove – an integrated platform simulating the dynamic response of species to environmental change
Guy F. Midgley,Ian D. Davies,Cécile H. Albert,Res Altwegg,Lee Hannah,Gregory O. Hughes,Lydia R. O'Halloran,Changwan Seo,James H. Thorne,Wilfried Thuiller +9 more
TL;DR: BioMove as discussed by the authors simulates plant species' geographic range shifts in response to climate, habitat structure and disturbance, at annual time steps, integrating species' bioclimatic suitability and population-level demographic rates with simulation of landscape-level processes.
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Projecting climate change impacts on species distributions in megadiverse South African Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Regions: Opportunities and challenges
Colin J. Yates,Jane Elith,Andrew M. Latimer,David C. Le Maitre,Guy F. Midgley,Frank M. Schurr,Adam G. West +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the application of SDMs in predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity with special reference to the species-rich South West Australian Floristic Region and South African Cape Floristic region.
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Colonization and persistence ability explain the extent to which plant species fill their potential range
Frank M. Schurr,Frank M. Schurr,Guy F. Midgley,Anthony G. Rebelo,Gail Reeves,Peter Poschlod,Steven I. Higgins +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the positive abundance‐range size relationship in this group is due primarily to the effect of abundance on colonization, and contributes to a process-based understanding of range dynamics and highlights the importance of colonization for the future survival of Fynbos Proteaceae.
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The impact of shrub encroachment on savanna bird diversity from local to regional scale
TL;DR: This paper assessed the potential response of bird species to shrub encroachment in a South African savanna by censusing bird species in five habitats along a gradient of increasing shrub cover.