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Species Distribution and Climate Change

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Christopher A. Halsch
Binghamton University
2
Camille Magneville
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3
Alaina C. Pfenning‐Butterworth
University of British Columbia
4
Pieter Sanczuk
Ghent University
5
Brittany T. Trew
University of Exeter
6
Coline C. F. Boonman
Wageningen University & Research
7
Brittany M. Mason
University of Florida
8
Imon Abedin
Bodoland University
9
Laura H. Antão
University of Turku
10
Joshua P. Newton
Curtin University

Papers

1
Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases
The Lancet Planetary Health|2024
155 cit.
2
Publication in Nature Communications (2024) [85 citations, W4390511178]
Nature Communications|2024
85 cit.
3
Publication in Science (2024) [45 citations, W4403294490]
Science|2024
45 cit.
4
Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates
iScience|2024
35 cit.
5
Targeting Terrestrial Vertebrates With <scp>eDNA</scp> : Trends, Perspectives, and Considerations for Sampling
Environmental DNA|2025
34 cit.
6
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies
Nature Climate Change|2024
30 cit.
7
Publication in Biology (2024) [16 citations, W4392983737]
Biology|2024
16 cit.
8
Publication in Biology (2024) [10 citations, W4401910946]
Biology|2024
10 cit.
9
Publication in Heliyon (2024) [9 citations, W4395682998]
Heliyon|2024
9 cit.
10
Publication in Ecology and Evolution (2024) [9 citations, W4401587709]
Ecology and Evolution|2024
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Wen X. Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2
Klaus Schliep
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
3
Gurutzeta Guillera‐Arroita
The University of Melbourne
4
Jean‐Philippe Lessard
University of Copenhagen
5
Nerea Abrego
University of Jyväskylä
6
Jennifer M. Sunday
McGill University
7
Connor M. French
City College of New York
8
Cory Merow
University of Connecticut
9
Florent Mazel
University of Lausanne
10
Luis Osorio‐Olvera
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México

Papers

1
Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi
Nature|2024
70 cit.
2
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data
Global Ecology and Biogeography|2023
68 cit.
3
AI chatbots can boost scientific coding
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
48 cit.
4
Well-intentioned initiatives hinder understanding biodiversity conservation: Cloaked iNaturalist information for threatened species
Biological Conservation|2023
46 cit.
5
Temperate species underfill their tropical thermal potentials on land
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
37 cit.
6
Potential impact of climate change on the distribution and conservation status of Pterocarpus marsupium, a Near Threatened South Asian medicinal tree species
Ecological Informatics|2022
29 cit.
7
Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity
Nature Communications|2023
29 cit.
8
Transmission mode and dispersal traits correlate with host specificity in mammalian gut microbes
Molecular Ecology|2023
27 cit.
9
Biological sensitivities to high‐resolution climate change projections in the California current marine ecosystem
Global Change Biology|2022
26 cit.
10
Evaluating the predictive performance of presence–absence models: Why can the same model appear excellent or poor?
Ecology and Evolution|2023
25 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jennifer Kent
The University of Sydney
2
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
3
A. Townsend Peterson
University of Kansas
4
Antoine Guisan
University of Lausanne
5
Robert E. Schapire
AT&T (United States)
6
Kevin J. Gaston
University of Exeter
7
Catherine H. Graham
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
8
Walter Jetz
Ecologie & Evolution
9
Wilfried Thuiller
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Stephen E. Williams
Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine

Papers

1
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Nature|2000
31.2k cit.
2
A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting
Journal of Computer and System Sciences|1997
20.3k cit.
3
Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
Ecological Modelling|2005
17.7k cit.
4
Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data
Ecography|2006
9.1k cit.
5
Extinction risk from climate change
Nature|2004
7.7k cit.
6
Experiments with a new boosting algorithm
Unknown Journal|1996
7.6k cit.
7
Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology
Ecological Modelling|2000
7.3k cit.
8
The global diversity of birds in space and time
Nature|2012
4k cit.
9
The Strength of Weak Learnability
Machine Learning|1990
3.3k cit.
10
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar
Journal of Biogeography|2006
3.1k cit.

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