Distributional Response of the Rare and Endangered Tree Species Abies chensiensis to Climate Change in East Asia.

ABSTRACT: Globally, increasing temperatures due to climate change have severely affected natural ecosystems in several regions of the world; however, the impact on the alpine plant may be particularly profound, further raising the risk of extinction for rare and endangered alpine plants. To identify how alpine species have responded to past climate change and to predict the potential geographic distribution of species under future climate change, we investigated the distribution records of A. chensiensis, an endangered alpine plant in the Qinling Mountains listed in the Red List. In this study, the optimized MaxEnt model was used to analyse the key environmental variables related to the distribution of A. chensiensis based on 93 wild distribution records and six environme

SUBMITTER: Dong PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9687575 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature