Biomes of the world under climate change scenarios: increasing aridity and higher temperatures lead to significant shifts in natural vegetation

The global potential distribution of biomes (natural vegetation) was modelled using 8,959 training points from the BIOME 6000 dataset and a stack of 72 environmental covariates representing terrain and the current climatic conditions based on historical long term averages (1979–2013). An ensemble ma...

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Main Authors: Carmelo Bonannella, Tomislav Hengl, Leandro Parente, Sytze de Bruin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2023-06-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/15593.pdf