Lab Publications

 

Peer-reviewed publications

Recently launched:

Map of Life
(Nature News) (Huffington Post) (Popular Science) (The Scientist) (MSNBC)
(New York Times) (TREE) (onarth)

 

Published, online, or in press:

W. Jetz, Thomas, G. H., Joy, J.B., Hartmann, K. & A.O. Mooers (in press): The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature: online (URL) (birdtree.org) (Futurity) (Yale News) (WELT) (PopSci) (Daily Mail) (Science Magazine ScienceNOW) (Nature News)

Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Kitching, I.J., Jetz, W., Nagel, P. & J. Beck (in press): Mapping the biodiversity of tropical insects: Species richness and inventory completeness of African sphingid moths. Global Ecology & Biogeography.

Keil, P., Belmaker, J., Wilson, A.M, Unitt, P. & W. Jetz (in press): Downscaling of species distribution models: a hierarchical approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Storch, D., Keil, P. & W. Jetz(2012): Universal species- and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature 488: 79-81. (URL)

Sibly, R.M., Witt, C.C., Wright, N.A., Venditti, C., Jetz, W. & J.H. Brown (2012): Energetics, lifestyle and reproduction in birds. PNAS: 109: 10937-10941. (URL) (Commentary by S. Dobson)

Jetz, W. & P. Fine (2012): Area and productivity of the world’s biomes integrated over geological time predicts global patterns of vertebrate diversity. PLoS Biology. (URL) (PLoS Biology Synopsis) (Yale News) (Faculty of 1000)

La Sorte, F.A. & W. Jetz (2012): Strong lag effects in the tracking of climatic-niche boundaries under recent climate change. J. Animal Ecology. In press. (URL) (The Weather Channel) (Huffington Post) (R&D Magazine)

Belmaker, J.C. & W. Jetz (2012): Regional pools and environmental controls of vertebrate assemblages. American Naturalist 179: 512-523. (URL)

Buckley, L.B., Hurlbert, A.H. & W. Jetz (2012): Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments. Global Ecology & Biogeography. (URL)

Jetz, W., J. M. McPherson, and R. P. Guralnick (2012): Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. (URL) (Nature News) (Huffington Post) (Popular Science) (The Scientist) (MSNBC) (New York Times) (onarth)

Kissling, D., Sekercioglu, C. & W. Jetz (2012): Bird dietary guild richness across latitudes, environments and regions. Global Ecology & Biogeography 21: 328–340 (URL)

Belmaker, J., C. Sekercioglu & W. Jetz (2012): Global patterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages Journal of Biogeography 39: 19-20. (URL)

 

2011

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)

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

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.