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The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate

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Acknowledgments

MCF acknowledges support from the University of Tennessee in the form of a Yates Dissertation Fellowship and through the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. WWH thanks the Climate Simulation Group within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for his guest status there. Don Catanzaro provided the aquatic environmental layers used in the Caspian Sea analysis. Comments from Rob Dunn, Rebecca Efroymson, Jack Williams, and three anonymous reviewers improved an early draft of this manuscript. The Australia Research Council (via an ARC grant to JD Majer and RR Dunn) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (via TN & Associates) supported portions of this research.

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  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 100 Flagg Road, Kingston, RI, 02881-0816, USA

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick

  3. Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC, 28804-3454, USA

    William W. Hargrove

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Fitzpatrick, M.C., Hargrove, W.W. The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate. Biodivers Conserv 18, 2255–2261 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-009-9584-8

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Keywords

  • Biological Invasion
  • Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
  • Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
  • Species Distribution Model
  • Future Climate Scenario