Lab Publications

 

Peer-reviewed publications

In press :

Buckley, L.B., Hurlbert, A.H. & W. Jetz: Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments. Global Ecology & Biogeography.

 

Published or online:

Hof, C., M. B. Araujo, W. Jetz, and C. Rahbek (2011). Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity. Nature. (URL) (The Australian) (The Guardian) (The Independent)

Jetz, W., J. M. McPherson, and R. P. Guralnick: Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. (URL)

Freckleton, R.B., Cooper, N. & W. Jetz (2011): Comparative methods as a statistical fix: the dangers of ignoring evolution. American Naturalist. (URL)

Belmaker, J., C. Sekercioglu & W. Jetz (2011): Global patterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages Journal of Biogeography. (URL)

Cooper, N., R. P. Freckleton & W. Jetz (2011). Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Online. (URL)

Kissling, D., Sekercioglu, C. & W. Jetz (2011): Bird dietary guild richness across latitudes, environments and regions. Global Ecology & Biogeography. Online (URL)

Lasky, J.R., Jetz, W., & T.H. Keitt (2011): Conservation biogeography of the US–Mexico border: a transcontinental risk assessment of barriers to animal dispersal. Diversity & Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00765.x (URL) (Nature News)

Jetz, W. & D.R. Rubenstein (2011): Environmental uncertainty and the global biogeography of cooperative breeding in birds. Current Biology 21: 72-78. (URL) (Science Daily) (Current Biology Dispatch, by Andrew Cockburn)

Belmaker, J. & W. Jetz (2011): Cross-scale variation in species richness-environment associations. Global Ecology & Biogeography 20: 464-474 . Online. (URL)

Lee, T.M. & W. Jetz (2011): Unraveling the structure of species extinction risk for predictive conservation science. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Online. (URL) (ECN) (Yale Bulletin)

 

2010

Cooper, N., Jetz, W. & R.P. Freckleton (2010): Phylogenetic comparative approaches for studying niche conservatism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 2529-2539. (URL)

Tittensor, D.P., Mora, M., Jetz, W., Lotze, H.K., Ricard, D., Vanden Berghe, E. & B. Worm: Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa. Nature 466: 1098-1101. (URL)
(Science) (Wall Street Journal) (Faculty of 1000)

La Sorte, F.A. & W. Jetz (2010): Projected range contractions of montane biodiversity under global warming. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 3401-3410. (URL)
(UPI) (ECN) (New York Times)

Kreft, H. & W. Jetz (2010): A framework for delineating biogeographic regions based on global species distributions. J. Biogeography 37: 2029-2053. - Special Paper - (URL)
(J. Biogeography Commentary by Cox) (academics.de)

Hurlbert, A.H. & W. Jetz (2010) : More than "more individuals": the non-equivalence of area and energy in the scaling of species richness. American Naturalist 176: E50–E65. (URL) (Faculty of 1000)

Kreft, H., Jetz, W., Mutke, J. & W. Barthlott (2010): Contrasting environmental and regional effects on species richness of ferns and seed plants. Ecography 33: 408-419. (URL)

Boyer, A. G. & W. Jetz (2010): Biogeography of body size in Pacific island birds. Ecography 33: 369-379. (URL)

La Sorte, F. A. & W. Jetz (2010): Avian distributions under climate change: towards improved projections. Journal of Experimental Biology: 213: 862-869. (URL)

Sommer, J.H., Kreft, H., Kier, G., Jetz, W., Mutke, J. & W. Barthlott (2010): Projected impacts of climate change on regional capacities for global plant species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. (URL)

Bawa K., Koh L., Lee T., Liu J., Ramakrishnan P., Yu D., Zhang Y. & Raven P. (2010). China, India, and the Environment. Science, 327, 1457.

Winter, M., Kühn, I., La Sorte, F.A., Schweiger, O., Nentwig, W., and Klotz, S. (2010) The role of non-native plants and vertebrates in defining patterns of compositional dissimilarity within and across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 332-342. (URL)

Buckley, L. & W. Jetz (2010) : Lizard community structure along environmental gradients. J. Animal Ecology 79: 358 – 365.  (URL)

 

2009

Jetz, W., Ashton, K.G. & F.A. La Sorte (2009): Phenotypic population divergence in terrestrial vertebrates at macro scales. Ecology Letters 12:1137-1146. (URL)

La Sorte, F.A. & Pyšek, P. (2009): Extra-regional residence time as a correlate of plant invasiveness: European archaeophytes in North America. Ecology 90:2589-2597 (URL)

Gotelli, N. & 20 others, incl. W. Jetz (2009): Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecology Letters 12: 873-886 (URL)

Kier, G., Kreft, H.*, Lee, T. M., Jetz, W., Ibisch, P.L., Nowicki, C., Mutke & J. W. Barthlott (2009): A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions. Proceedings National Academy of Science 106: 9322–9327. (URL)
(press release)    (BBC) (New Scientist)    (Scientific American) (Faculty of 1000)

Kissling, W.D., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Jetz, W. (2009): The global distribution of frugivory in birds. Global Ecology & Biogeography 18: 150 - 162.  (URL)

La Sorte, F.A., Lee, T.M., Wilman, H., and Jetz, W. (2009): Disparities between observed and predicted impacts of climate change on winter bird assemblages (2009): Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0162.
 (URL)    (press release)

Menke, S.B., Holway, D.A., Fisher, R.N. & Jetz, W. (2009): Characterizing and predicting species distributions across environments and scales: Argentine ant occurrences in the eye of the beholder. Global Ecology & Biogeography 18: 50-63.  (URL)

Jetz, W., Kreft, H., Ceballos, G. & J. Mutke(2009): Global associations between terrestrial producer and vertebrate consumer diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276: 269–278. (URL)

Freckleton, R. P. & W. Jetz (2009): Space versus phylogeny: disentangling phylogenetic and spatial signals in comparative data. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276: 269-278.  (URL)

 

2008

Jetz, W., Sekercioglu, C. H. & Böhning-Gaese, K. (2008): The worldwide variation in avian clutch size across species and space. PLoS Biology 6:e303.
 (URL)      (press release)      (ScienceDaily)       (MSNBC)       (Discovery)

Buckley, L. & Jetz, W. (2008): Linking global turnover of species and environments. Proceedings National Academy of Science 145: 17836-17841.
(URL)    (press release)     (Scientific American)    (UPI) (Faculty of 1000)

Jetz, W., Freckleton, R. P. & A.E. McKechnie(2008): Environment, migratory tendency, phylogeny and basal metabolic rate in birds. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3261. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003261. (URL)

Dobson, A., Lafferty, K.D., Kuris, A.M., Hechinger, R.F. & Jetz, W. (2008): Colloquium Paper: Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts? Proceedings National Academy of Science doi:10.1073/pnas.0803232105. (URL)

Lee, T.M. & Jetz, W. (2008): Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275: 1261-1270. (URL)       (pdf)      (press release)        (ScienceDaily)         (Cosmos, Australia)         (SciDev) (Faculty of 1000)

La Sorte, F.A., McKinney, M.L., Pyšek, P., Klotz, S., Rapson, G.L. Celesti-Grapow, L., and Thompson, K. (2008): Distance decay in similarity among European urban floras: the impact of anthropogenic activities on beta diversity. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 17, 363-371. (URL)  (pdf)

Jetz, W., Sekercioglu C. & Watson, J.E.M. (2008): Ecological correlates and conservation implications of overestimating species’ geographic ranges. Conservation Biology 22: 110-119. (URL)  (pdf)
(press release)    (UPI)    (ScienceDaily)     (LiveScience)  (Faculty of 1000)       

Kreft, H., Jetz, W., Mutke, J., Kier, G. & Barthlott, W. (2008): Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective. Ecology Letters 11: 116-127. (URL)  (pdf) (Faculty of 1000)

Buckley, L.B., Rodda, G.H. & Jetz, W. (2008): Thermal and energetic constraints on ectotherm abundance: a global test using lizards. Ecology 89: 48–55. (URL)  (pdf)

Sodhi, N.S., Posa, M.R.C., Lee, T.M., & Warkentin, I.G. (2008): Effects of disturbance or loss of tropical rainforest on birds. Auk 125: 511-519. (URL)  (pdf)

Sodhi, N.S., Bickford, D., Diesmos, A.C.,Lee, T.M., Koh, L.P., Brook, B.W., Sekercioglu, C.H. & Bradshaw, C.J.A. (2008): Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and decline. PLoS ONE 3: e1636. (URL)  (pdf)

Sodhi, N.S., Koh, L.P., Peh, K. S.-H., Tan, H.T.W., Chazdon, R.L., Corlett, R.T., Lee,  T.M., Colwell, R.K., Brook, B.W., Sekercioglu, C.H. & Bradshaw, C.J.A. (2008): Correlates of extinction proneness of tropical angiosperms. Diversity and Distribution 14: 1-10. (URL)  (pdf)

Schaefer, H.C., Jetz, W. & Böhning-Gaese, K. (2008): Impact of climate change on migratory birds: community reassembly versus adaptation. Global Ecology & Biogeography 17: 38–49. (URL)  (pdf)

 

2007

Menke, S.B., Fisher, R.N., Jetz, W. & Holway, D.A. (2007): Biotic and abiotic controls of Argentine ant invasion success at local and landscape scales. Ecology 88: 3164–3173. (URL)  (pdf)

Dormann, C. F., McPherson, J. M., Araujo, M. B., Bivand, R., Bolliger, J., Carl, G., Davies, R. G., Hirzel, A., Jetz, W., Kissling, W. D., Kühn, I., Ohlemüller, R., Peres-Neto, P. R., Reineking, B., Schröder, B., Schurr, F. M. & Wilson, R. J. (2007): Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review. Ecography 30: 609–628. (URL)  (pdf)

Hurlbert, A.H. & Jetz, W. (2007): Species richness, hotspots, and the scale-dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation. Proceedings National Academy of Science 104: 13384-13389.
(URL)  (pdf) (Faculty of 1000)

Jetz, W, D. S. Wilcove & Dobson, A.P. (2007): Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of birds. PLoS Biology 5 (6): e157 (URL - open access)  
 (Nature News)   (New Scientist)   (Guardian - UK)   (Focus - Germany)  (People's Daily - China)

Buckley, L.B. & Jetz, W. (2007): Insularity and the balance of environmental and ecological determinants of population density. Ecology Letters 10: 481 - 489 (URL)         (pdf)   (press release)

McPherson, J.M. & Jetz, W. (2007): Type and spatial structure of distribution data and the perceived determinants of geographic gradients in ecology: the species richness of African birds. Global Ecology & Biogeography 16: 657–667 (URL)         (pdf)

Kreft, H. & Jetz, W. (2007): Global Patterns and Determinants of Vascular Plant Diversity. Proceedings National Academy of Science 104: 5925–5930 (pdf)  (ScienceDaily) 

Buckley, L.B. & Jetz, W. (2007): Environmental and historical constraints on global patterns of amphibian richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274: 1167-1173. (pdf)

McPherson, J.M. & Jetz, W. (2007): Effect of species’ ecology on the accuracy of distribution models. Ecography 30: 135-151 (URL - open access)  (Ecography press release)

 

2006


McKechnie, A.E., Freckleton, R.P. and Jetz, W. (2006). Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273: 931-937. (pdf)

McPherson, J. M., Jetz, W. & Rogers, D.J. (2006): Using coarse-grained occurrence data to predict species distributions at finer spatial resolutions—possibilities and limitations. Ecological Modeling 192: 499-522. (pdf)

 

2005


Anderson, K.J., Jetz, W. (2005): The broad-scale ecology of energy expenditure of endotherms. Ecology Letters. (pdf)

Jetz, W., Rahbek, C. & Lichstein, J.W. (2005): Local and global approaches to spatial data analysis in ecology. Global Ecology & Biogeography 14: 97-98. (pdf)

 

2004


Jetz, W., Rahbek, C. & Colwell, R.K. (2004): The coincidence of rarity and richness and the potential signature of history in centers of endemism. Ecology Letters 7: 1180-1191. (pdf) (Faculty of 1000)

Jetz, W., Carbone, C., Fulford, J. & Brown, J H. (2004): The scaling of animal space use. Science 306: 266-268. (pdf) (Suppl. Online Material) (Science Perspective by S. Buskirk)

McPherson, J. M., Jetz, W. & Rogers, D.J. (2004): The effects of species’ range size on the accuracy of environmental distribution models - ecological phenomenon or statistical artefact? Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 811-823. (pdf)

Meehan, T.D., Jetz, W. & Brown, J.H. (2004): Energetic determinants of abundance in winter landbird communities. Ecology Letters 7: 532-537 (pdf)

Donze, J., Moulton, M. P., Labisky, R. F. & Jetz, W. (2004): Response to Sexual Selection and the Outcome of Game Bird (Aves: Galliformes) Introductions on Oceanic Islands. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 595–606.

 

< 2004


Jetz, W.  J. Steffen & Linsenmair, K.E. (2003): Effects of light and prey availability on nocturnal, lunar and seasonal activity of two sub-tropical nightjars. Oikos 103: 627-639. (pdf)

Jetz, W. & Rahbek, C. (2002): Geographic range size and determinants of avian species richness. Science 297: 1548-1551. (pdf)

Johnson, D. P., Jetz, W. & Macdonald, D.W. (2002): Environmental correlates of badger social spacing across Europe. Journal of Biogeography 29: 411-425. (pdf)

Jetz, W. & Rahbek, C. (2001): A two-dimensional geometric constraints model explains much of the species richness pattern in African birds. Proceedings National Academy of Science. 98 (10): 5661-5666. (pdf)

Jetz, W., Rowe, C. & Guilford, T. (2001): Non-warning odors trigger innate color aversions – as long as they are novel. Behavioral Ecology 12: 134-139. (pdf)

Zotz, G., Schweikert, A., Jetz, W. & Westerman, H. (2000): Water relations and carbon gain are closely related to cushion size in the moss Grimmia pulvinata. New Phytologist 148:59-67

Bezzel, E. & Jetz,W. (1995): Delay of the Autumn Migratory Period in the Blackcap (Sylvia-Atricapilla) 1966-1993 - a Reaction to Global Warming? – Journal of Ornithology: 136: 83-87.

Jetz, W. & E. Bezzel (1993): Different detectability of Passerines after the breeding season? - Attempt of a quantification. - Vogelwelt 114: 186-198.

 

Books

Jetz, W. (1995): The birds of Uludag. Birds of Turkey 11. 44 pp. Kasparek Verlag. Heidelberg.

 

Reports

Jetz, W. 2000. Temporal dynamics and community composition of aerial insects in a West African Bush Savannah. Oxford University Expedition to the Ivory Coast 1999 - Report. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. 43pp. (pdf)

Jetz, W. & T.M. Brooks 2001. Towards a Global Database of Terrestrial Vertebrate Distributions – Meeting Report. National Centre of Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara CA, USA. 4pp.