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dc.contributor.authorAraújo, Miguel B.
dc.contributor.authorPeterson, A. Townsend
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-21T14:55:10Z
dc.date.available2014-03-21T14:55:10Z
dc.date.issued2012-07-01
dc.identifier.citationMiguel B. Araújo and A. Townsend Peterson 2012. Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling. Ecology 93:1527–1539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1930.1
dc.identifier.issn0012-9658
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/13349
dc.description.abstractBioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once bioclimatic envelopes are characterized, they can be applied to a variety of questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation. However, some have questioned the usefulness of these models, because they may be based on implausible assumptions or may be contradicted by empirical evidence. We review these areas of contention, and suggest that criticism has often been misplaced, resulting from confusion between what the models actually deliver and what users wish that they would express. Although improvements in data and methods will have some effect, the usefulness of these models is contingent on their appropriate use, and they will improve mainly via better awareness of their conceptual basis, strengths, and limitations.
dc.publisherEcological Society of America
dc.rightsCopyright by the Ecological Society of America. This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/11-1930.1.
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectBiogeography
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectClimate envelopes
dc.subjectConservation planning
dc.subjectEcological niches
dc.subjectInvasions
dc.subjectNiche conservation
dc.subjectRestoration ecology
dc.subjectSpecies distributions
dc.subjectTranslocation experiments
dc.subjectUncertainty in prediction
dc.titleUses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorPeterson, A. Townsend
kusw.kudepartmentEcology and Evolutionary Biology
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1890/11-1930.1
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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