Predictability and transferability of local biodiversity environment relationships.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biodiversity varies in space and time, and often in response to environmental heterogeneity. Indicators in the form of local biodiversity measures-such as species richness or abundance-are common tools to capture this variation. The rise of readily available remote sensing data has enabled the characterization of environmental heterogeneity in a globally robust and replicable manner. Based on the assumption that differences in biodiversity measures are generally related to differences in environmental heterogeneity, these data have enabled projections and extrapolations of biodiversity in space and time. However so far little work has been done on quantitatively evaluating if and how accurately local biodiversity measures can be predicted.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Jung M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9415358 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature