Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models

A Guisan, W Thuiller - Ecology letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In the last two decades, interest in species distribution models (SDMs) of plants and animals
has grown dramatically. Recent advances in SDMs allow us to potentially forecast …

Global change in forests: responses of species, communities, and biomes: interactions between climate change and land use are projected to cause large shifts in …

AJ Hansen, RP Neilson, VH Dale, CH Flather… - …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
This review focuses on three levels of biodiversity: species, communities, and biomes.
Communities are assemblages of interacting species, such as spruce–fir forests or tallgrass …

[CITATION][C] Map** species distributions: spatial inference and prediction

J Franklin - 2009 - books.google.com
Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of
environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include …

Newer classification and regression tree techniques: bagging and random forests for ecological prediction

AM Prasad, LR Iverson, A Liaw - Ecosystems, 2006 - Springer
The task of modeling the distribution of a large number of tree species under future climate
scenarios presents unique challenges. First, the model must be robust enough to handle …

Validation of species–climate impact models under climate change

MB Araujo, RG Pearson, W Thuiller… - Global change …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing concern over the implications of climate change for biodiversity has led to the use
of species–climate envelope models to project species extinction risk under climate‐change …

Estimating potential habitat for 134 eastern US tree species under six climate scenarios

LR Iverson, AM Prasad, SN Matthews… - Forest ecology and …, 2008 - Elsevier
We modeled and mapped, using the predictive data mining tool Random Forests, 134 tree
species from the eastern United States for potential response to several scenarios of climate …

Forecasting the effects of global warming on biodiversity

DB Botkin, H Saxe, MB Araújo, R Betts… - Bioscience, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The demand for accurate forecasting of the effects of global warming on biodiversity is
growing, but current methods for forecasting have limitations. In this article, we compare and …

Potential effects of climate change on ecosystem and tree species distribution in British Columbia

A Hamann, T Wang - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A new ecosystem‐based climate envelope modeling approach was applied to assess
potential climate change impacts on forest communities and tree species. Four orthogonal …

Molecular indicators of tree migration capacity under rapid climate change

JS McLachlan, JS Clark, PS Manos - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Recent models and analyses of paleoecological records suggest that tree populations are
capable of rapid migration when climate warms. Fossil pollen is commonly interpreted as …

Effect of roadside bias on the accuracy of predictive maps produced by bioclimatic models

R Kadmon, O Farber, A Danin - Ecological Applications, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Sampling bias is a common phenomenon in records of plant and animal distribution. Yet,
models based on such records usually ignore the potential implications of bias in data …