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Predictive traits to the rescue

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  • Antoine Guisan

    (Antoine Guisan is at the University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

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Climate change poses new challenges to the conservation of species, which at present requires data-hungry models to meaningfully anticipate future threats. Now a study suggests that species traits may offer a simpler way to help predict future extinction risks.

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  • Antoine Guisan, 2014. "Predictive traits to the rescue," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 4(3), pages 175-176, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:4:y:2014:i:3:d:10.1038_nclimate2157
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2157
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    1. Evan P Tanner & Monica Papeş & R Dwayne Elmore & Samuel D Fuhlendorf & Craig A Davis, 2017. "Incorporating abundance information and guiding variable selection for climate-based ensemble forecasting of species' distributional shifts," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(9), pages 1-26, September.
    2. Pliscoff, Patricio & Luebert, Federico & Hilger, Hartmut H. & Guisan, Antoine, 2014. "Effects of alternative sets of climatic predictors on species distribution models and associated estimates of extinction risk: A test with plants in an arid environment," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 288(C), pages 166-177.

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