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Martin Sykes

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An ecosystem model-based estimate of changes in water availability differs from water proxies that are commonly used in species distribution models

Författare

  • Thomas Hickler
  • Stefan Fronzek
  • Miguel B. Araujo
  • Oliver Schweiger
  • Wilfried Thuiller
  • Martin Sykes

Summary, in English

To assess whether the water availability measures commonly used in species distribution models might be misleading because they do not account for the hydrological effects of changes in vegetation structure and functioning. Europe. We compared different methods for estimating water availability in species distribution models with the soil water content predicted by a process-based ecosystem model. The latter also accounted for the hydrological effects of dynamic changes in vegetation structure and functioning, including potential physiological effects of increasing CO2. All proxies showed similar patterns of water availability across Europe for current climate, but when projected into the future, the changes in the simpler water availability measures showed no correlation with those projected by the more complex ecosystem model, even if CO2 effects were switched off. Results from species distribution modelling studies concerning future changes in species ranges and biodiversity should be interpreted with caution, and more process-based representations of the water balance of terrestrial ecosystems should be considered within these models.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

304-313

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volym

18

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Nyckelord

  • species distribution modelling
  • biodiversity projections
  • Bioclimatic envelope models
  • climate change
  • CO2 fertilization effects
  • drought effects
  • hydrology
  • ecosystem model
  • LPJ-GUESS
  • vegetation response
  • water availability

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Climate Initiative

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1466-8238