Impacts of Climate Change on Native Landcover: Seeking Future Climatic Refuges.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is a driver for diverse impacts on global biodiversity. We investigated its impacts on native landcover distribution in South America, seeking to predict its effect as a new force driving habitat loss and population isolation. Moreover, we mapped potential future climatic refuges, which are likely to be key areas for biodiversity conservation under climate change scenarios. Climatically similar native landcovers were aggregated using a decision tree, generating a reclassified landcover map, from which 25% of the map's coverage was randomly selected to fuel distribution models. We selected the best geographical distribution models among twelve techniques, validating the predicted distribution for current climate with the landcover map and used the best technique to predict th

SUBMITTER: Zanin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5019498 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature