Choice of threshold alters projections of species range shifts under climate change

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3346-3354

  Nenzen H K ^a,b   Araujo M B ^b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelope modelling; Climate change; Species distribution; Thresholds; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATIC ENVELOPE MODELLING; CLIMATIC MODELS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; FUTURE CLIMATE; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES RANGES; THRESHOLD CHOICE; THRESHOLD SELECTION; THRESHOLDS; TREE SPECIES; UNCERTAINTY;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALGORITHM; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGE EXPANSION; SELECTION; THRESHOLD; TREE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 80051609270     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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