Francis Petter
Francis Petter; Petter; F. PETTER; F PETTER
* 28. Juli 1923 – 21. Januar 2012 †
zoologist, veterinarian
French zoologist (1923-2012)
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Wissenschaft ermöglicht durch Exemplardaten
Bender, I. M. A., W. D. Kissling, K. Böhning-Gaese, I. Hensen, I. Kühn, L. Nowak, T. Töpfer, et al. 2019. Projected impacts of climate change on functional diversity of frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient. Scientific Reports 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53409-6
Climate change forces many species to move their ranges to higher latitudes or elevations. Resulting immigration or emigration of species might lead to functional changes, e.g., in the trait distribution and composition of ecological assemblages. Here, we combined approaches from biogeography (speci…
Zanin, M., and B. dos S. Neves. 2019. Current felid (Carnivora: Felidae) distribution, spatial bias, and occurrence predictability: testing the reliability of a global dataset for macroecological studies. Acta Oecologica 101: 103488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2019.103488
The lack of information about species distribution, also known as Wallacean shortfall, targets most species, even charismatic animals like felids, limiting the performance of scientific study and conservation planning. The knowledge about species distribution (specifically occurrence data) is also a…
Mohammadi, S., E. Ebrahimi, M. Shahriari Moghadam, and L. Bosso. 2019. Modelling current and future potential distributions of two desert jerboas under climate change in Iran. Ecological Informatics 52: 7–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.04.003
Species distribution models (SDMs) are excellent tools to understand the factors that affect the potential distribution of several organisms at different scale. In this study, we analyzed the current potential distribution of the Blanford’s Jerboa Jaculus blanfordi and the Arabian Jerboa Jaculus lof…
Escribano, N., D. Galicia, and A. H. Ariño. 2019. Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) about terrestrial mammals in the Iberian Peninsula F. H. Koch [ed.],. PLOS ONE 14: e0213542. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213542
The advent of online data aggregator infrastructures has facilitated the accumulation of Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) about biodiversity. Despite the vast amount of freely available data records, their usefulness for research depends on completeness of each body of data regarding their spatial…
Yusefi, G. H., K. Faizolahi, J. Darvish, K. Safi, and J. C. Brito. 2019. The species diversity, distribution, and conservation status of the terrestrial mammals of Iran. Journal of Mammalogy 100: 55–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz002
Located at the crossroad of the Palearctic, Saharo-Arabian, and Oriental zoogeographic realms, and with its great environmental diversity, Iran harbors a high complexity and richness of fauna and flora. Knowledge about the Iranian mammal fauna has greatly increased over recent years thanks to the gr…
Liu, X., T. M. Blackburn, T. Song, X. Li, C. Huang, and Y. Li. 2019. Risks of Biological Invasion on the Belt and Road. Current Biology 29: 499-505.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.036
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an unprecedented global development program that involves nearly half of the world’s countries [1]. It not only will have economic and political influences, but also may generate multiple environmental challenges and is a focus of considerable academic and p…
Park, D. S., and O. H. Razafindratsima. 2018. Anthropogenic threats can have cascading homogenizing effects on the phylogenetic and functional diversity of tropical ecosystems. Ecography 42: 148–161. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03825
Determining the mechanisms that underlie species distributions and assemblages is necessary to effectively preserve biodiversity. This cannot be accomplished by examining a single taxonomic group, as communities comprise a plethora of interactions across species and trophic levels. Here, we examine …
Antonelli, A., A. Zizka, F. A. Carvalho, R. Scharn, C. D. Bacon, D. Silvestro, and F. L. Condamine. 2018. Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115: 6034–6039. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713819115
The American tropics (the Neotropics) are the most species-rich realm on Earth, and for centuries, scientists have attempted to understand the origins and evolution of their biodiversity. It is now clear that different regions and taxonomic groups have responded differently to geological and climati…