Prediction of biodiversity hotspots in the Anthropocene: The case of veteran oaks.

ABSTRACT: Over the past centuries, humans have transformed large parts of the biosphere, and there is a growing need to understand and predict the distribution of biodiversity hotspots influenced by the presence of humans. Our basic hypothesis is that human influence in the Anthropocene is ubiquitous, and we predict that biodiversity hot spot modeling can be improved by addressing three challenges raised by the increasing ecological influence of humans: (i) anthropogenically modified responses to individual ecological factors, (ii) fundamentally different processes and predictors in landscape types shaped by different land use histories and (iii) a multitude and complexity of natural and anthropogenic processes that may require many predictors and even multiple models in different landscape types. W

SUBMITTER: Skarpaas O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5632640 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature