Dangers of using global bioclimatic datasets for ecological niche modeling. Limitations for future climate projections

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Bedia, Joaquín ^a   Herrera, Sixto ^b   Gutiérrez, José Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Impacts of climate change; Regional climate projection; Species distribution models; UAB Atlas; WorldClim

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; UAB ATLAS; WORLDCLIM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; LOGISTICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATLAS; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84877335411     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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