Climatic associations of British species distributions show good transferability in time but low predictive accuracy for range change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Rapacciuolo, Giovanni ^a,b   Roy, David B ^b   Gillings, Simon ^c   Fox, Richard ^d   Walker, Kevin ^e   Purvis, Andy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^d BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^e BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RANGE CHANGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES OCCUPANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAXON; TEMPORAL TRANSFERABILITY; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84863630919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040212     Document Type: Article

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