Decomposing the spatial and temporal effects of climate on bird populations in northern European mountains.

ABSTRACT: The relationships between species abundance or occurrence versus spatial variation in climate are commonly used in species distribution models to forecast future distributions. Under "space-for-time substitution", the effects of climate variation on species are assumed to be equivalent in both space and time. Two unresolved issues of space-for-time substitution are the time period for species' responses and also the relative contributions of rapid- versus slow reactions in shaping spatial and temporal responses to climate change. To test the assumption of equivalence, we used a new approach of climate decomposition to separate variation in temperature and precipitation in Fennoscandia into spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal components over a 23-year period (1996-2018). We compiled infor

SUBMITTER: Bradter U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9804621 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature