Predicting climate-induced range shifts: Model differences and model reliability

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1568-1584

  Lawler, Joshua J ^a   White, Denis ^b   Neilson, Ronald P ^c   Blaustein, Andrew R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate envelope models; Extinction; Geographic range; Model averaging; Model prediction; Random forest predictors

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTINCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MODELING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745830853     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01191.x     Document Type: Article

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