Climate Stability Index maps, a global high resolution cartography of climate stability from Pliocene to 2100.

ABSTRACT: Climate changes are top biodiversity shapers, both during the past and future. Mapping the most climatic stable and unstable zones on Earth could improve our understanding of biodiversity distribution and evolution. Here, we present a set of maps based on a global scale, high resolution (ca. 5 km) new Climate Stability Index (CSI). The CSI considers bioclimatic variables for two different time ranges: (1) from Pliocene (3.3 Ma) to the present (CSI-past map set), using 12 time periods of PaleoClim representing warm and cold cycles; and (2) from present to the year 2100 (CSI-future), using nine general circulation models of climate change of four periods available from WorldClim. We calculated standard deviation of the variables and selected an uncorrelated set for summing, normalizing and o

SUBMITTER: Herrando-Moraira S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8831633 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature