Negative biotic interactions drive predictions of distributions for species from a grassland community.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors that determine species' geographical distributions is important for addressing a wide range of biological questions, including where species will be able to maintain populations following environmental change. New methods for modelling species distributions include the effects of biotic interactions alongside more commonly used abiotic variables such as temperature and precipitation; however, it is not clear which types of interspecific relationship contribute to shaping species distributions and should therefore be prioritized in models. Even if some interactions are known to be influential at local spatial scales, there is no guarantee they will have similar impacts at macroecological scales. Here we apply a novel method based on information theory to determine

SUBMITTER: Staniczenko PPA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283927 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature