Evaluating the capacity of species distribution modeling to predict the geographic distribution of the mangrove community in Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Mangroves are highly productive ecosystems that provide important environmental services, but have been impacted massively in recent years by human activities. Studies of mangroves have focused on their ecology and function at local or landscape scales, but little has been done to understand their broader distributional patterns or the environmental factors that determine those distributions. Species distribution models (SDMs), have been used to estimate potential distributions of hundreds of species, yet no SDM studies to date have assessed mangrove community distributions in Mexico (the country with the fourth largest extent of this ecosystem). We used maximum entropy approaches to model environmental suitability for mangrove species distributions in the country, and to identify the envi

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Medina K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446832 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature