Stephen E. Williams

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the benefits and risks of species introductions motivated by either goal, which they respectively term "push" versus "pull" strategies for introductions to preserve single species or for restoration of ecological processes.

TL;DR: This paper used extensive abundance data and expected range shifts across altitudinal gradients to predict changes in total population size of rainforest birds of Australian tropical rainforests in response to climate warming.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the combination of current rainforest area and shape are an index of the relative susceptibility of each area of rainforest to historical contractions, with the implication that historical habitat fluctuations, coupled with subsequent localized extinctions, have been extremely important processes in determining current patterns of endemism in Australia's wet tropical rainforests.

TL;DR: In this article, a new approach that takes into consideration habitat connectivity through time has been proposed to identify regions of suitable climate across a series of time-slices, where suitable habitat for a given species (or suite of species) may have shifted contiguously in response to changing climates through geologic time.

TL;DR: Although there is no consistent latitudinal or altitudinal cline in diversity between taxonomic groups, there is a consistent turnover in the assemblage composition of vertebrates, both altitudinally and latitudinally, consistent in all major terrestrial vertebrate taxa.