Conservation applications of niche modeling: Native and naturalized ferns may compete for limited Hawaiian dryland habitat.

ABSTRACT:

Premise

Competition from naturalized species and habitat loss are common threats to native biodiversity and may act synergistically to increase competition for decreasing habitat availability. We use Hawaiian dryland ferns as a model for the interactions between land-use change and competition from naturalized species in determining habitat availability.

Methods

We used fine-resolution climatic variables and carefully curated occurrence data from herbaria and community science repositories to estimate the distributions of Hawaiian dryland ferns. We quantified the degree to which naturalized ferns tend to occupy areas suitable for native species and mapped the remaining available habitat given land-use change.

Results

Of all native species, Doryopteris angelica

SUBMITTER: Edwards-Calma K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11192160 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature