Effects of alternative sets of climatic predictors on species distribution models and associated estimates of extinction risk: A test with plants in an arid environment

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 288, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-177

  Pliscoff, Patricio ^a,b   Luebert, Federico ^a,c,d   Hilger, Hartmut H ^c   Guisan, Antoine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; BIOMOD; Boraginaceae; Climate change; Extinction risk; Heliotropium

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATACAMA DESERT; BIOMOD; BORAGINACEAE; EXTINCTION RISKS; HELIOTROPIUM;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTINCTION RISK; HERB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

EID: 84903579883     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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