Species-free species distribution models describe macroecological properties of protected area networks.

ABSTRACT: Among the greatest challenges facing the conservation of plants and animal species in protected areas are threats from a rapidly changing climate. An altered climate creates both challenges and opportunities for improving the management of protected areas in networks. Increasingly, quantitative tools like species distribution modeling are used to assess the performance of protected areas and predict potential responses to changing climates for groups of species, within a predictive framework. At larger geographic domains and scales, protected area network units have spatial geoclimatic properties that can be described in the gap analysis typically used to measure or aggregate the geographic distributions of species (stacked species distribution models, or S-SDM). We extend the use of speci

SUBMITTER: Robinson JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5354291 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature