Validating predictions from climate envelope models.

Climate envelope models are a potentially important conservation tool, but their ability to accurately forecast species' distributional shifts using independent survey data has not been fully evaluated. We created climate envelope models for 12 species of North American breeding birds previousl...

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Main Authors: James I Watling, David N Bucklin, Carolina Speroterra, Laura A Brandt, Frank J Mazzotti, Stephanie S Romañach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3662712?pdf=render