What we use is not what we know: environmental predictors in plant distribution models

Spatial predictions at the community level: from current approaches to future frameworks

(2015) Manuela D'Amen et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

(2015) Nicolas Mouquet et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting ground temperatures across European landscapes

(2015) Richard M. Gunton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Modelling plant species distribution in alpine grasslands using airborne imaging spectroscopy

(2014) J. Pottier et al.   Biology Letters

Topoclimate versus macroclimate: how does climate mapping methodology affect species distribution models and climate change projections?

(2014) Eve Slavich et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A 40-year, continent-wide, multispecies assessment of relevant climate predictors for species distribution modelling

(2014) Morgane Barbet-Massin et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Shifting protected areas: scheduling spatial priorities under climate change

(2014) Diogo Alagador et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Incorporating dominant species as proxies for biotic interactions strengthens plant community models

(2014) Peter C. le Roux et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Outcomes of biotic interactions are dependent on multiple environmental variables

(2014) Heidi K. Mod et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Land Use Compounds Habitat Losses under Projected Climate Change in a Threatened California Ecosystem

(2014) Erin Coulter Riordan et al.   PLoS One

Incorporating Climate Change and Exotic Species into Forecasts of Riparian Forest Distribution

(2014) Dana H. Ikeda et al.   PLoS One

Microclimate is integral to the modeling of plant responses to macroclimate: Fig. 1.

(2014) Thomas D. Harwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A climate-based model to predict potential treeline position around the globe

(2014) Jens Paulsen et al.   Alpine Botany

Measuring the relative effect of factors affecting species distribution model predictions

(2014) Emeric Thibaud et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

(2014) Laura J. Pollock et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Vegetation Mediates Soil Temperature and Moisture in Arctic-Alpine Environments

(2013) Juha Aalto et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Using unclassified continuous remote sensing data to improve distribution models of red-listed plant species

(2013) Miia Parviainen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

bioclim: the first species distribution modelling package, its early applications and relevance to most currentMaxEntstudies

(2013) Trevor H. Booth et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Geomorphological disturbance is necessary for predicting fine-scale species distributions

(2013) Peter C. le Roux et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Can fire atlas data improve species distribution model projections?

(2013) Shawn M. Crimmins et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

(2013) Antoine Guisan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil moisture's underestimated role in climate change impact modelling in low-energy systems

(2013) Peter Christiaan le Roux et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microclimatic challenges in global change biology

(2013) Kristen A. Potter et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Photosynthetically active radiation and its relationship with global solar radiation in Central China

(2013) Lunche Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Central European hardwood trees in a high-CO2future: synthesis of an 8-year forest canopy CO2enrichment project

(2013) Martin K.-F. Bader et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Earth surface processes drive the richness, composition and occurrence of plant species in an arctic-alpine environment

(2013) Peter C. le Roux et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The ASCAT Soil Moisture Product: A Review of its Specifications, Validation Results, and Emerging Applications

(2013) Wolfgang Wagner et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Topography as a driver of local terrestrial vascular plant diversity patterns

(2013) Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund et al.   NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Fit-for-Purpose: Species Distribution Model Performance Depends on Evaluation Criteria – Dutch Hoverflies as a Case Study

(2013) Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez et al.   PLoS One

Very high resolution environmental predictors in species distribution models

(2013) Jean-Nicolas Pradervand et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Application of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar data for extraction of soil moisture and its use in hydrological modelling at Gottleuba Catchment, Saxony, Germany

(2013) S. Elbialy et al.   Journal of Flood Risk Management

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The meso-scale drivers of temperature extremes in high-latitude Fennoscandia

(2012) Juha Aalto et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

How do species interactions affect species distribution models?

(2012) William Godsoe et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Species detection vs. habitat suitability: Are we biasing habitat suitability models with remotely sensed data?

(2012) Bethany A. Bradley et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Horizontal, but not vertical, biotic interactions affect fine-scale plant distribution patterns in a low-energy system

(2012) Peter C. le Roux et al.   ECOLOGY

Disregarding the edaphic dimension in species distribution models leads to the omission of crucial spatial information under climate change: the case ofQuercus pubescensin France

(2012) Romain Bertrand et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modeling plant species distributions under future climates: how fine scale do climate projections need to be?

(2012) Janet Franklin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil water balance performs better than climatic water variables in tree species distribution modelling

(2012) Christian Piedallu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Improving the prediction of plant species distribution and community composition by adding edaphic to topo-climatic variables

(2012) Anne Dubuis et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Determinants of plant species invasions in an arid island: evidence from Socotra Island (Yemen)

(2012) Ali S. Senan et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders

(2012) B. Petitpierre et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

(2011) Richard J. Norby et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Use of niche models in invasive species risk assessments

(2011) A. Jiménez-Valverde et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Contribution of disturbance to distribution and abundance in a fire-adapted system

(2011) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate change threatens European conservation areas

(2011) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

No growth stimulation by CO2 enrichment in alpine glacier forefield plants

(2011) Nicole Inauen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

SESAM - a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio-temporal patterns of species assemblages

(2011) Antoine Guisan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

(2011) W. D. Kissling et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Hypothesis-driven species distribution models for tree species in the Bavarian Alps

(2011) K. H. Mellert et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mapping gradients of community composition with nearest-neighbour imputation: extending plot data for landscape analysis

(2011) Janet L. Ohmann et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Inclusion of local environmental conditions alters high-latitude vegetation change predictions based on bioclimatic models

(2011) Henna Sormunen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Modeling the photosynthetically active radiation in South West Amazonia under all sky conditions

(2011) Leonardo J. G. Aguiar et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

New trends in species distribution modelling

(2010) Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

(2010) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

(2010) Eliane S. Meier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Co-occurrence patterns of trees along macro-climatic gradients and their potential influence on the present and future distribution of Fagus sylvatica L.

(2010) Eliane S. Meier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impact of landscape predictors on climate change modelling of species distributions: a case study with Eucalyptus fastigata in southern New South Wales, Australia

(2010) Mike P. Austin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: variable selection and scale

(2010) Mike P. Austin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

(2010) Christoph Scherber et al.   NATURE

Effects of abiotic and anthropogenic factors on the spatial distribution of Quercus faginea in the Spanish Central Pyrenees

(2010) Y. Kouba et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

ASCAT soil wetness index validation through in situ and modeled soil moisture data in central Italy

(2010) L. Brocca et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remote sensing of structural complexity indices for habitat and species distribution modeling

(2010) L.D. Estes et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Matters of Scale

(2010) B. J. McGill   SCIENCE

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Introduction of Snow and Geomorphic Disturbance Variables into Predictive Models of Alpine Plant Distribution in the Western Swiss Alps

(2009) Christophe F. Randin et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Land use improves spatial predictions of mountain plant abundance but not presence-absence

(2009) Christophe F. Randin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climatic extremes improve predictions of spatial patterns of tree species

(2009) N. E. Zimmermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting current and future biological invasions: both native and invaded ranges matter

(2008) O. Broennimann et al.   Biology Letters

Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

(2008) M. S. Wisz et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS