JOURNAL ARTICLES
How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?
Clusella-Trullas, S., Garcia, R. A., Terblanche, J. S. and Hoffmann, A. A. (2021). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36 (11): P1000-1010.
News coverage on the Mail&Guardian and ScienceDaily.
Non-native populations and global invasion potential of the Indian bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus: A synthesis for risk-analysis.
Mohanty, N.P., Crottini, A., Garcia, R.A. & Measey, J. (2021). Biological Invasions 23: 69–81.
Thermal landscape change as a driver of ectotherm responses to plant invasions.
Garcia, R.A. and Clusella-Trullas, S. (2019). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286.
News coverage on the CIB website.
Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
Araújo, M. B. , Anderson, R. P., Márcia Barbosa, A., Beale, C. M., Dormann, C. F., Early, R.,
Garcia, R.A., Guisan, A., Maiorano, L., Naimi, B., O’Hara, R. B., Zimmermann, N. E. , Rahbek, C. (2019). Science Advances Vol. 5, no. 1, eaat4858.
News coverage of the paper on Phys.org and a video about the paper.
Rethinking the scale and formulation of indices assessing organism vulnerability to warming
Garcia R.A., Allen, J.L. and Clusella-Trullas, S. (2019). Ecography 42 (5), 1024-1036. 10.1111/ecog.04226
News coverage on the CIB website.
Climate change vulnerability assessment of species
Foden, W. B., Young, B. E., Akçakaya H. R., Garcia, R. A., Hoffmann, A. A., Stein, B. A., Thomas, C. D., Wheatley, C. J., Bickford, D., Carr, J. A., Hole, D. G., Martin, T. G., Pacifici, M., Pearce‐Higgins, J. W., Platts, P. J., Visconti, P., Watson, J. E. M., Huntley, B (2018). WIREs Clim Change 2018. doi: 10.1002/wcc.551
News coverage on the CIB, Phys.org and IUCN pages.
Managing consequences of climate-driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science
Bonebrake, T.C., Brown, C.J., Bell, J.D., Blanchard, J.L., Chauvenet, A., Champion, C., Chen, I-C., Clark, T.D., Colwell, R.K., Danielsen, F., Dell, A.I., Donelson, J.M., Evengård, B., Ferrier, S., Frusher, S., Garcia, R.A., Griffis, R.B., Hobday, A.J., Jarzyna, M.A., Lee, E., Lenoir, J., Linnetved, H., Martin, V.Y., McCormack, P.C., McDonald, J., McDonald-Madden, E., Mitchell, N., Mustonen, T., Pandolfi, J.M., Pettorelli, N., Possingham, H., Pulsifer, P., Reynolds, M., Scheffers, B.R., Sorte,C.J.B., Strugnell, J.M., Tuanmu, M-N., Twiname, S., Vergés, A., Villanueva, C., Wapstra, E., Wernberg, T., Pecl, G.T. (2017). Biological Reviews 93(1):284-305.
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being
Pecl, G., Araújo, M.B.,Bell, J.D., Blanchard, J., Bonebrake, T.C., Chen, I-C., Clark, T.D., Colwell, R.K., Danielsen, F., Evengård, B., Falconi, L., Ferrier, S., Frusher, S., Garcia, R.A., Griffis, R., Hobday, A.J., Janion-Scheepers, C., Jarzyna, M.A., Jennings, S., Lenoir, J., Linnetved, H.I., Martin, V.Y., McCormack, P.C., McDonald, J., Mitchell, N.J., Mustonen, T., Pandolfi, J.M., Pettorelli, N., Popova, E., Robinson, S.A., Scheffers, B.R., Shaw, J.D., Sorte, C.J.B., Strugnell, J.M., Sunday, J.M., Tuanmu, M.-N., Vergés, A., Villanueva, C., Wernberg, T., Wapstra, E., and Williams, S.E. (2017). Science 355, eaai9214.
News coverage of the paper on The Conversation, National Geographic, The Guardian, Phys.org and the World Economic Forum.
Impacts of invasive plants on animal diversity in South Africa: A synthesis
Clusella-Trullas and Garcia, R.A. (2017). Bothalia 47(2), a2166.
News coverage of the paper on The Conversation.
An empirically-tested overlap between local and scientific knowledge of a changing climate
Fernández-Llamazares, A., Garcia, R.A., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Cabeza, M., Pyhälä, A., Reyes-García, V. (2017). Regional Environmental Change, 2017, 1-13.
Do projections from bioclimatic envelope models and climate change metrics match?
Garcia, R.A., Cabeza, M., Altwegg, R., & Araújo, M.B. (2016). Global Ecology & Biogeography 25(1): 65-74.
Integrating climate change vulnerability assessments from species distribution models and trait-based approaches
Willis, S. G., Foden, W., Baker, D.J., Belle, E., , Burgess, N.D., Carr, J., Doswald, N., Garcia, R. A., Hartley, A., Hof, C., Newbold, T., Rahbek, C., Smith, R.G., Visconti, P., Young, B. , Butchart, S.H.M. (2015). Conservation Biology 190, 167-178.
Uncertainty in projected impacts of climate change on biodiversity – A focus on African vertebrates
Garcia, R.A. (2015). Frontiers of Biogeography 7(1):6:13.
Conservation implications of omitting narrow-ranging and threatened species from climate change impact modelling
Platts, P.J., Garcia, R.A., Hof, C., Foden, W.B., Hansen, L., Rahbek, C., and Burgess, N.D. (2014). Diversity & Distributions 20(11): 1307-1320 (Cover article).
News coverage of the paper on Phys.org.
Multiple dimensions of climate change and their implications for biodiversity
Garcia, R.A., Cabeza, M., Rahbek, C. & Araújo, M.B. (2014). Science, 344: 6183.
Matching species traits to projected risks from climate change
Garcia, R.A., Araújo, M.B., Burgess, N.D., Foden, W.B., Gutsche, A., Rahbek, C. and Cabeza, M. (2014). Journal of Biogeography, 41(4): 724-735.
Exploring consensus in 21st century projections of climatically suitable areas for African vertebrates
Garcia, R.A., Burgess, N.D., Cabeza, M., Rahbek, C. & Araújo, M.B. (2012). Global Change Biology, 18: 1253-1269.
Planejamento para a Conservação em um Clima em Mudança (‘Conservation Planning under Climate Change)
Garcia, R.A. and M.B. Araújo. 2010. Natureza & Conservação, 8:78-80 (English version available in Supplementary Material).
BOOK CHAPTERS
IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change
Huntley, B., Foden, W.B., Smith, A., Platts, P., Watson, J. and Garcia, R.A. (2016). Chapter 5. Using CCVAs and interpreting their results In: W.B. Foden and B.E. Young. (eds.) IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. Version 1.0. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. x+114pp.
Foden, W.B., Garcia, R.A., Platts, P., Carr, J., Hoffmann, A. and Visconti, P. (2016). Chapter 4. Selecting and evaluating CCVA approaches and methods In: W.B. Foden and B.E. Young. (eds.) IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. Version 1.0. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. x+114pp.
Garcia, R.A. (2016). Chapter 10. Case studies: Case Study 9 Matching species traits to correlative model projections in a combined CCVA approach In: W.B. Foden and B.E. Young. (eds.) IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. Version 1.0. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. x+114pp.
Platts, P.J. and Garcia, R.A. (2016). Chapter 10. Case studies: Case Study 3 Back to basics with African amphibians In: W.B. Foden and B.E. Young. (eds.) IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. Version 1.0. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. x+114pp.
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