Climatic predictors of species distributions neglect biophysiologically meaningful variables

By Alex Gardner, I. Maclean, Kevin J. Gaston. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2019

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Species distribution models (SDMs) have played a pivotal role in predicting how species might respond to climate change. To generate reliable and realistic predictions from these models requires the use of climate variables that adequately capture physiological responses of species to climate and therefore provide a proximal link between climate and their distributions. Here, we examine whether the climate variables used in plant SDMs are different from those known to influence directly plant physiology.

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

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