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Valeria Di Cola
Researcher at University of Lausanne
Publications - 13
Citations - 782
Valeria Di Cola is an academic researcher from University of Lausanne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecological niche & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 13 publications receiving 473 citations. Previous affiliations of Valeria Di Cola include National Scientific and Technical Research Council & Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.
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ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions
Valeria Di Cola,Olivier Broennimann,Blaise Petitpierre,Frank T. Breiner,Manuela D'Amen,Christophe F. Randin,Robin Engler,Julien Pottier,Dorothea V. Pio,Anne Dubuis,Loïc Pellissier,Rubén G. Mateo,Wim Hordijk,Nicolas Salamin,Antoine Guisan +14 more
TL;DR: The aim of the ecospat package is to make available novel tools and methods to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions in a coherent workflow and stimulate the use of comprehensive approaches in spatial modelling of species and community distributions.
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Geographic distribution and phenetic skull variation in two close species of Graomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)
TL;DR: The interspecific differentiation of South American rodents of the genus Graomys was assayed at ecological and morphometric levels in two species to elucidate some evolutionary processes that have occurred in these species.
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Species Delimitation in the Continental Forms of the Genus Epicrates (Serpentes, Boidae) Integrating Phylogenetics and Environmental Niche Models
Paula C. Rivera,Valeria Di Cola,Juan José Martínez,Cristina N. Gardenal,Margarita Chiaraviglio +4 more
TL;DR: The results indicated that the environmental requirements of the species are different; therefore there are not evidences of ecological interchangeability among them, and there is a non-consistent pattern in niche evolution among continental Epicrates.
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Climate and land-use changes reshuffle politically-weighted priority areas of mountain biodiversity
Claire Vincent,Rui Fernandes,Ana R. Cardoso,Ana R. Cardoso,Ana R. Cardoso,Olivier Broennimann,Valeria Di Cola,Manuela D'Amen,Sylvain Ursenbacher,Benedikt R. Schmidt,Jean-Nicolas Pradervand,Loïc Pellissier,Antoine Guisan +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Western Swiss Alps is used as a case study to show how integrating species richness derived from species distribution model predictions for four taxonomic groups under present and future climate and land-use conditions into two conservation prioritization schemes can help optimize extant and future PAs.
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Understanding the ecological niche to elucidate spatial strategies of the southernmost Tupinambis lizards
Sofía Lanfri,Sofía Lanfri,Valeria Di Cola,Valeria Di Cola,Sergio Naretto,Margarita Chiaraviglio,Gabriela Cardozo +6 more
TL;DR: This work modelled species distributions of two phylogenetically, geographically and ecologically close Tupinambis species (Teiidae) that occupy the southernmost area of the genus distribution in South America and proposed that niche plasticity could be the mechanism enabling their co-occurrence.