Habitat and climatic associations of climate-sensitive species along a southern range boundary.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and habitat loss are recognized as important drivers of shifts in wildlife species' geographic distributions. While often considered independently, there is considerable overlap between these drivers, and understanding how they contribute to range shifts can predict future species assemblages and inform effective management. Our objective was to evaluate the impacts of habitat, climatic, and anthropogenic effects on the distributions of climate-sensitive vertebrates along a southern range boundary in Northern Michigan, USA. We combined multiple sources of occurrence data, including harvest and citizen-science data, then used hierarchical Bayesian spatial models to determine habitat and climatic associations for four climate-sensitive vertebrate species (American marten [M

SUBMITTER: Wilson EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10191803 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature