Using worldwide edaphic data to model plant species niches: An assessment at a continental extent.

ABSTRACT: Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is a broadly used tool in different fields of plant ecology. Despite the importance of edaphic conditions in determining the niche of terrestrial plant species, edaphic data have rarely been included in ENMs of plant species perhaps because such data are not available for many regions. Recently, edaphic data has been made available at a global scale allowing its potential inclusion and evaluation on ENM performance for plant species. Here, we take advantage of such data and address the following main questions: What is the influence of distinct predictor variables (e.g. climatic vs edaphic) on different ENM algorithms? and what is the relationship between the performance of different predictors and geographic characteristics of species? We used 125 plant spe

SUBMITTER: Velazco SJE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5648144 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature