Aim To test the hypothesis of bioclimatic niche conservation in an alien species. Location Northern Hemisphere temperate and boreal zones. Taxon Tree squirrels of the genera Sciurus and Tamiasciurus , especially S. carolinensis (Eastern Grey Squirrel). Methods Climatic response surface species distribution models (SDMs) are fitted using a limited set of biologically‐relevant bioclimatic variables. Two models are fitted for Sci...

Marine protected areas (MPAs), particularly large MPAs, are increasing in number and size around the globe in part to facilitate the conservation of marine megafauna under the assumption that large-scale MPAs better align with vagile life histories; however, this alignment is not well established. Using a global tracking dataset from 36 species across five taxa, chosen to reflect the span of home range size in highly mobile ma...

Despite the continuing loss of wetland habitats and associated declines in amphibian populations, attempts to translate wetland losses into measurable losses to ecosystems have been lacking. We estimated the potential productivity from the amphibian community that would be compromised by the loss of a single isolated wetland that has been protected from most industrial, agricultural, and urban impacts for the past 54 years. We...