Climatically robust multiscale species distribution models to support pronghorn recovery in California.

ABSTRACT: We combined two climate-based distribution models with three finer-scale suitability models to identify habitat for pronghorn recovery in California now and into the future. We used a consensus approach to identify areas of suitable climate now and future for pronghorn in California. We compared the results of climate models from two separate hypotheses about their historical ecology in the state. Under the migration hypothesis, pronghorn were expected to be limited climatically by extreme cold in winter and extreme heat in summer; under the niche reduction hypothesis, historical pronghorn of distribution would have better represented the climatic limitations of the species. We combined occurrences from GPS collars distributed across three populations of pronghorn in the state to create th

SUBMITTER: Bean WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11188984 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature