Walter Jetz

Movement mechanisms explain current animal density patterns and predict their reorganization under global change

The paper uses movement mechanisms from GPS tracking data to predict population density patterns and their reorganization under sea-level rise, outperforming traditional models.

Global slowdown in the rate of invasive alien species establishment

The paper shows a 35% reduction in new invasive alien species establishment over 50 years, indicating effective global policies.

The Performance and Potential of Deep Learning for Predicting Species Distributions

This study evaluates deep learning models for species distribution prediction, finding they match but do not surpass traditional methods, with performance issues for threatened species and data leakage concerns.

Choices to landscapes: Mechanisms of animal movement scale to landscape patterns of space use

This paper presents a framework that integrates habitat selection and movement behaviors to predict landscape-scale animal space use, outperforming occurrence-based methods across multiple scales.

Extreme weather risk shrinks range size estimates and alters biodiversity predictions

This study links bird observations to extreme weather risk maps, showing that accounting for extreme weather reduces species range sizes and biodiversity estimates.

Scaling ecological niches from individuals to populations and beyond

This paper introduces a framework to derive population and organismal-level ecological niches from individual-level niches, showing how higher-level niche properties can be partitioned into individual contributions and how species-level niche shifts can be estimated from individual responses.

Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate the erosion of species environmental niches

The paper assesses how North American bird species mitigated climate niche loss through geographical redistribution over 20 years, finding partial success with significant remaining exposure to warming.