Should species distribution models use only native or exotic records of existence or both?

Title
Should species distribution models use only native or exotic records of existence or both?
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Shabani, Farzin
Kumar, Lalit
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9205-756X
Email: lkumar@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lkumar
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Place of publication
Netherlands
DOI
10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.07.006
UNE publication id
une:19090
Abstract
This study investigated the importance of the use of appropriate species distribution records in projecting potential distributions under climate change using comparative bioclimatic models and alternative sets of data (native and exotic) to project a species in a new environment. We built bioclimatic models for date palm ('Phoenix dactylifera' L.), using the MaxEnt correlative model and the CLIMEX mechanistic niche model, and fitted the models using three training data sets: native data only, exotic data only and entire data. We compared the ability of the different data sets using the different modelling approaches to project suitable climate envelope for independent records of the species at a global scale. We found that the output of projected species distributions was closely related to the modelling approach as well as the specific categorized distribution of species data used (native data only, exotic data only and entire data).
Link
Citation
Ecological Informatics, 29(1), p. 57-65
ISSN
1878-0512
1574-9541
Start page
57
End page
65

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