Climatic associations of British species distributions show good transferability in time but low predictive accuracy for range change.

Conservation planners often wish to predict how species distributions will change in response to environmental changes. Species distribution models (SDMs) are the primary tool for making such predictions. Many methods are widely used; however, they all make simplifying assumptions, and predictions c...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Rapacciuolo, David B Roy, Simon Gillings, Richard Fox, Kevin Walker, Andy Purvis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3390350?pdf=render