Modelling the responses of Andean and Amazonian plant species to climate change: The effects of georeferencing errors and the importance of data filtering

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 733-740

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b,c   Silman, Miles R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic niches; Climate change; Collection records; Conservation biogeography; Data filters; Extinction risk; Global warming; Habitat distribution models; Herbarium data; Range maps

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBARIUM; NEOTROPICAL KINGDOM; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMAZON BASIN; ANDES;

EID: 77952068730     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02240.x     Document Type: Article

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