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Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Publications - 301
Citations - 48531
Niklaus E. Zimmermann is an academic researcher from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Species distribution. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 277 publications receiving 39364 citations. Previous affiliations of Niklaus E. Zimmermann include Norwegian University of Science and Technology & Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.
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Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data
Jane Elith,Catherine H. Graham,Robert P. Anderson,Miroslav Dudík,Simon Ferrier,Antoine Guisan,Robert J. Hijmans,Falk Huettmann,John R. Leathwick,Anthony Lehmann,Jin Li,Lúcia G. Lohmann,Bette A. Loiselle,Glenn Manion,Craig Moritz,Miguel Nakamura,Yoshinori Nakazawa,Jacob C. M. Mc Overton,A. Townsend Peterson,Steven J. Phillips,Karen Richardson,Ricardo Scachetti-Pereira,Robert E. Schapire,Jorge Soberón,Stephen E. Williams,Mary S. Wisz,Niklaus E. Zimmermann +26 more
TL;DR: This work compared 16 modelling methods over 226 species from 6 regions of the world, creating the most comprehensive set of model comparisons to date and found that presence-only data were effective for modelling species' distributions for many species and regions.
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Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology
TL;DR: A review of predictive habitat distribution modeling is presented, which shows that a wide array of models has been developed to cover aspects as diverse as biogeography, conservation biology, climate change research, and habitat or species management.
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Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution
Hylke E. Beck,Niklaus E. Zimmermann,Tim R. McVicar,Tim R. McVicar,Noemi Vergopolan,Alexis Berg,Eric F. Wood +6 more
TL;DR: New global maps of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification at an unprecedented 1-km resolution for the present-day and for projected future conditions under climate change are presented, providing valuable indications of the reliability of the classifications.
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Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas
Dirk Nikolaus Karger,Olaf Conrad,Jürgen Böhner,Tobias Kawohl,Holger Kreft,Rodrigo Wilber Soria-Auza,Niklaus E. Zimmermann,H. Peter Linder,Michael Kessler +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas) data of downscaled model output temperature and precipitation estimates of the ERA-Interim climatic reanalysis to a high resolution of 30'arc'sec.
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Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges
Wilfried Thuiller,Cécile H. Albert,Miguel B. Araújo,Pam Berry,Mar Cabeza,Antoine Guisan,Thomas Hickler,Guy F. Midgley,James S. Paterson,Frank M. Schurr,Martin T. Sykes,Niklaus E. Zimmermann +11 more
TL;DR: This review proposes two main avenues to progress the understanding and prediction of the different processes occurring on the leading and trailing edge of the species' distribution in response to any global change phenomena and concludes with clear guidelines on how such modelling improvements will benefit conservation strategies in a changing world.