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DOI 10.1111/jbi.14726
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Title (Primary) Potential sources of time lags in calibrating species distribution models
Author Essl, F.; García-Rodríguez, A.; Lenzner, B.; Alexander, J.M.; Capinha, C.; Gaüzère, P.; Guisan, A.; Kühn, I. ORCID logo ; Lenoir, J.; Richardson, D.M.; Rumpf, S.B.; Svenning, J.-C.; Thuiller, W.; Zurell, D.; Dullinger, S.
Source Titel Journal of Biogeography
Year 2024
Department BZF; iDiv
Volume 51
Issue 1
Page From 89
Page To 102
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
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Keywords climate change; climatic debt; colonization credit; extinction debt; invasion debt; mismatch; niche; projection; species distribution models
Abstract The Anthropocene is characterized by a rapid pace of environmental change and is causing a multitude of biotic responses, including those that affect the spatial distribution of species. Lagged responses are frequent and species distributions and assemblages are consequently pushed into a disequilibrium state. How the characteristics of environmental change—for example, gradual ‘press’ disturbances such as rising temperatures due to climate change versus infrequent ‘pulse’ disturbances such as extreme events—affect the magnitude of responses and the relaxation times of biota has been insufficiently explored. It is also not well understood how widely used approaches to assess or project the responses of species to changing environmental conditions can deal with time lags. It, therefore, remains unclear to what extent time lags in species distributions are accounted for in biodiversity assessments, scenarios and models; this has ramifications for policymaking and conservation science alike. This perspective piece reflects on lagged species responses to environmental change and discusses the potential consequences for species distribution models (SDMs), the tools of choice in biodiversity modelling. We suggest ways to better account for time lags in calibrating these models and to reduce their leverage effects in projections for improved biodiversity science and policy.
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Essl, F., García-Rodríguez, A., Lenzner, B., Alexander, J.M., Capinha, C., Gaüzère, P., Guisan, A., Kühn, I., Lenoir, J., Richardson, D.M., Rumpf, S.B., Svenning, J.-C., Thuiller, W., Zurell, D., Dullinger, S. (2024):
Potential sources of time lags in calibrating species distribution models
J. Biogeogr. 51 (1), 89 - 102 10.1111/jbi.14726