How to understand species’ niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography

Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany, Institute of Physical Geography, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, UMR 5554, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Biodiversity, Macroecology and Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany, University of Auckland, School of Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Institute of Systematic Botany, Zürich, Switzerland, Climate Change Research Group, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Agricultural, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, Scottsville, South Africa, Environmental Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Landscape Ecology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland