Model uncertainties do not affect observed patterns of species richness in the Amazon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Climate change is arguably a major threat to biodiversity conservation and there are several methods to assess its impacts on species potential distribution. Yet the extent to which different approaches on species distribution modeling affect species richness patterns at biogeographical scale is however unaddressed in literature. In this paper, we verified if the expected responses to climate change in biogeographical scale-patterns of species richness and species vulnerability to climate change-are affected by the inputs used to model and project species distribution.

Methods

We modeled the distribution of 288 vertebrate species (amphibians, birds and mammals), all endemic to the Amazon basin, using different combinations of the following inputs known to affect t

SUBMITTER: Sales LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5638225 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature