Toward reliable habitat suitability and accessibility models in an era of multiple environmental stressors.

ABSTRACT: Global biodiversity declines, largely driven by climate and land-use changes, urge the development of transparent guidelines for effective conservation strategies. Species distribution modeling (SDM) is a widely used approach for predicting potential shifts in species distributions, which can in turn support ecological conservation where environmental change is expected to impact population and community dynamics. Improvements in SDM accuracy through incorporating intra- and interspecific processes have boosted the SDM field forward, but simultaneously urge harmonizing the vast array of SDM approaches into an overarching, widely adoptable, and scientifically justified SDM framework. In this review, we first discuss how climate warming and land-use change interact to govern population dynam

SUBMITTER: De Kort H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7593202 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature