Great Gerbils (<i>Rhombomys opimus</i>) in Central Asia Are Spreading to Higher Latitudes and Altitudes.

ABSTRACT: The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a gregarious rodent in Central Asia and is one of the major pests found in desert forest and grassland areas. The distribution changes and migration routes of R. opimus in Central Asia under climate change remain unexplored. This study employed multi-model ensemble, correlation analysis, jackknife method, and minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model to simulate the potential habitat of R. opimus under current and future (2030 and 2050) climate scenarios and estimate its possible migration routes. The results indicate that the ensemble model integrating Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), and Maximum Entropy Model (MaxEnt) performed best within the present climate context. The model predicted the potential distrib

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11554374 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature