Dealing with disjunct populations of vascular plants: implications for assessing the effect of climate change.

ABSTRACT: Species distribution models are the most widely used tool to predict species distributions for species conservation and assessment of climate change impact. However, they usually do not consider intraspecific ecological variation exhibited by many species. Overlooking the potential differentiation among groups of populations may lead to misplacing any conservation actions. This issue may be particularly relevant in species in which few populations with potential local adaptation occur, as in species with disjunct populations. Here, we used ecological niche modeling to analyze how the projections of current and future climatically suitable areas of 12 plant species can be affected using the whole taxa occurrences compared to occurrences from geographically disjunct populations. Niche analys

SUBMITTER: Varaldo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9945546 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature