biogeography

Climate change is expected to drive species towards colder and wetter regions of their distribution with alternative processes such as forest management having the potential to alter species displacements. Here, using data from more than two million …

Aim Range shifts are expected to occur when populations at one range margin perform better than those at the other margin, yet no global trend in population performances at range margins has been demonstrated empirically across a wide range of taxa …

Assembling a global, dynamic, open, reproducible database of fruit and seed traits

Extinction, range dynamics and ecology of extant laurel forests in the Mediterranean and Macaronesia.

Climate change, microclimates, refugia, and forest dynamics.

New approaches to hindcast and forecast species range dynamics.

Are we entering a new ‘Golden Age’ of biogeography, with continued development of infrastructure and ideas? We highlight recent developments, and the challenges and opportunities they bring, in light of the snapshot provided by the 7th biennial …