Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

By Eliane Seraina Meier, F. Kienast, P. Pearman, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Wilfried Thuiller, Miguel B. Araújo, Antoine Guisan, N. E. Zimmermann. 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Co-occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions. (2020, background): “…the early 2000s were criticised for neglecting biotic interactions (Wisz et al., 2013) whereas it has been repeatedly shown that biotic interactions improve the accuracy of predictions (Leathwick & Austin, 2001; Heikkinen et al., 2007; Meier et al., 2010; Leach et al., 2016; Barbaro et al., 2019).”
Understanding co‐occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM) (2014, background): “Most current approaches to incorporating biotic interactions in SDMs involve adding the occurrence or abundance of other species as predictors (Araujo & Luoto 2007; Heikkinen et al. 2007;Meier et al. 2010).”
Applications of species distribution modeling to paleobiology (2011, background): “…conservatism; C; d from past to present distributions; O, other aim, e.g., methodological; E, extinction. biotic predictors (Preston et al., 2008; Meier et al., 2010) and predictors that represent dispersal constraints (De Marco et al., 2008; Svenning et al., 2008b; Blach-Overgaard et al.,…”
Defining and evaluating predictions of joint species distribution models (2020, background): “…by using other species' occurrence states as predictor variables alongside abiotic variables (Araújo & Luoto, 2007; Leathwick & Austin, 2001; Meier et al., 2010; Pellissier et al., 2010), or by constraining predicted distributions to observed or predicted distributions of species on which…”
Using species co-occurrence networks to assess the impacts of climate change (2011, background): “The problem is that while bioclimatic models often lack explicit parameterization of biotic interactions (but see Araújo and Luoto 2007, Heikkinen et al. 2007, Meier et al. 2010), experimental approaches are generally not feasible.”
When and how should biotic interactions be considered in models of species niches and distributions? (2017, background): “…lie at the heart of ecology, and great interest exists in studying their effects on species distributions and communities (Ferrier et al., 2007; Baselga & Ara ujo, 2009; Gilman et al., 2010; Meier et al., 2010; Guisan & Rahbek, 2011; Urban et al., 2012; Blois et al., 2013; D’Amen et al., 2015).”
The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling (2012, background): “…as predator and prey (e.g. Redfern et al., 2006), animal and food plants (Preston et al., 2008; Schweiger et al., 2011, 2008), in resource competition (e.g. Meier et al., 2010b; Pellissier et al., 2012), in mutualism (e.g. Gutierrez et al., 2005) and facilitation (e.g. Heikkinen et al., 2007).”
Co‐occurrence patterns of trees along macro‐climatic gradients and their potential influence on the present and future distribution of Fagus sylvatica L. (2011, background): “Sixth, biotic predictors in models can include not only biotic interactions, but also a broad range of local processes such as dispersal, disturbance or human influences (Meier et al., 2010).”
Ecophysiological traits associated with the competitive ability of invasive Australian acacias (2011, unknown): “Incorporating greater edaphic and biotic components of the invaded environments into current species distribution models would thus enhance predictive power of models that are currently mostly limited to the use of only abiotic factors and limited soil characteristics (Meier et al., 2010).”
Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents (2012, background): “For instance, competition between trees has been considered by adding plot-level predictors representing frequency or count data (Leathwick & Austin, 2001), basal area (Rouget et al., 2001), or proportion data (Meier et al., 2010) of co-occurring tree species.”