Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity
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...Consequently, studying under which circumstances losses in genetic and species diversity at local to regional scales occurred in the past could improve models outputs (Dawson et al. 2011; McMahon et al. 2011)....
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...…species trajectories with some credibility, we therefore need to assess properly the vulnerability of species (including exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity and migration potential), habitats and regions to different components of climate change (Dawson et al. 2011; McMahon et al. 2011)....
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...Before being able to forecast species trajectories with some credibility, we therefore need to assess properly the vulnerability of species (including exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity and migration potential), habitats and regions to different components of climate change (Dawson et al. 2011; McMahon et al. 2011)....
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...Similarly, there are important biases in data collection both across regions and ecosystems (McMahon et al. 2011)....
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...Each of the modelling approaches reviewed has methodological, spatial and temporal limitations that constrain their predictive power 8 C. Bellard et al. Review and Syntheses 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS (e.g. McMahon et al. 2011)....
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...1), even minimally more realistic models might improve projections untilmore complicated models can be developed (13, 19)....
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...Already, the Group on Earth Observations– Biodiversity Observation Network is developing a list of essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) for monitoring global biodiversity (25) and isworking to address monitoring gaps (19)....
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...Althoughmorework is needed to craft more sophisticated and accurate mechanisticmodels that are customizable for individual species andecosystems, the tools are already mature enough to improve projections (2, 16, 19)....
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...Predictive science advances most quicklyvia iterativeprediction-failure-improvement cycles, and mechanistically grounded models often quicken the pace of these advances (2, 3, 19)....
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...Species distribution models in general (Guisan & Thuiller, 2005; Elith & Leathwick, 2009), and bioclimatic envelope models in particular (Pearson & Dawson, 2003; Heikkinen et al., 2006) provide valuable perspectives on potential effects of climate change (Botkin et al., 2007; McMahon et al., 2011)....
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..., 2006) provide valuable perspectives on potential effects of climate change (Botkin et al., 2007; McMahon et al., 2011)....
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