Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables
Refugia, the sites preserving conditions reminiscent of suitable climates, are projected to be crucial for species in a changing climate, particularly at high latitudes. However, the knowledge of current locations of high-latitude refugia and particularly their ability to retain suitable conditions...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/307291 2024-01-07T09:40:46+01:00 Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables Niskanen, Annina K. J. Heikkinen, Risto K. Mod, Heidi K. Väre, Henry Luoto, Miska Department of Geosciences and Geography BioGeoClimate Modelling Lab University of Helsinki Finnish Museum of Natural History 2019-11-25T09:51:01Z 13 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/307291 eng eng Wiley/Blackwell 10.1080/04353676.2016.1256746 AN was funded by the Lapland Regional Fund (Finnish Cultural Foundation), Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica and The Doctoral Program in Geosciences. We acknowledge funding from the Academy of Finland (Project Number 1140873). Also, HMwas partly founded by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and The Doctoral Program in Geosciences, and ML was partly funded by the Academy of Finland (Project Number 286950). Niskanen , A K J , Heikkinen , R K , Mod , H K , Väre , H & Luoto , M 2017 , ' Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables ' , Geografiska Annaler. Series A. Physical Geography , vol. 99 , no. 1 , pp. 2-14 . https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2016.1256746 ORCID: /0000-0001-6203-5143/work/38827200 ORCID: /0000-0001-7800-2688/work/66367238 ORCID: /0000-0002-6170-885X/work/110091936 85030627339 4b489f1d-8d71-41aa-82e7-0d595f459a21 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/307291 000395104100002 unspecified openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Climate change refugia landscape-scale factor SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS CLIMATE-CHANGE GLACIAL REFUGIA PLANT DIVERSITY IDENTIFYING REFUGIA HABITAT MODELS BIODIVERSITY DISTRIBUTIONS EUROPE PATTERNS 1172 Environmental sciences Article acceptedVersion 2019 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:02:29Z Refugia, the sites preserving conditions reminiscent of suitable climates, are projected to be crucial for species in a changing climate, particularly at high latitudes. However, the knowledge of current locations of high-latitude refugia and particularly their ability to retain suitable conditions under future climatic changes is limited. Occurrences of refugia have previously been mainly assessed and modelled based solely on climatic features, with insufficient attention being paid to potentially important landscape-scale factors. Here, climate-only models and full' models incorporating topo-edaphic landscape-scale variables (radiation, soil moisture and calcareousness) were developed and compared for 111 arctic-alpine plant species in Northern Fennoscandia. This was done for both current and future climates to determine cells with resilient climatic suitability harbouring refugia. Our results show that topographic and edaphic landscape-scale predictors both significantly improve models of arctic-alpine species distributions and alter projections of refugia occurrence. The predictions of species-climate models ignore landscape-scale ecological processes and may thus provide inaccurate estimates of extinction risk and forecasts of refugia where species can persist under a changing climate. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change Fennoscandia HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Arctic Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 99 1 2 14 |
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Refugia, the sites preserving conditions reminiscent of suitable climates, are projected to be crucial for species in a changing climate, particularly at high latitudes. However, the knowledge of current locations of high-latitude refugia and particularly their ability to retain suitable conditions under future climatic changes is limited. Occurrences of refugia have previously been mainly assessed and modelled based solely on climatic features, with insufficient attention being paid to potentially important landscape-scale factors. Here, climate-only models and full' models incorporating topo-edaphic landscape-scale variables (radiation, soil moisture and calcareousness) were developed and compared for 111 arctic-alpine plant species in Northern Fennoscandia. This was done for both current and future climates to determine cells with resilient climatic suitability harbouring refugia. Our results show that topographic and edaphic landscape-scale predictors both significantly improve models of arctic-alpine species distributions and alter projections of refugia occurrence. The predictions of species-climate models ignore landscape-scale ecological processes and may thus provide inaccurate estimates of extinction risk and forecasts of refugia where species can persist under a changing climate. Peer reviewed |
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Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables |
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Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables |
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Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables |
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Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables |
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improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables |
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10.1080/04353676.2016.1256746 AN was funded by the Lapland Regional Fund (Finnish Cultural Foundation), Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica and The Doctoral Program in Geosciences. We acknowledge funding from the Academy of Finland (Project Number 1140873). Also, HMwas partly founded by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and The Doctoral Program in Geosciences, and ML was partly funded by the Academy of Finland (Project Number 286950). Niskanen , A K J , Heikkinen , R K , Mod , H K , Väre , H & Luoto , M 2017 , ' Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables ' , Geografiska Annaler. Series A. Physical Geography , vol. 99 , no. 1 , pp. 2-14 . https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2016.1256746 ORCID: /0000-0001-6203-5143/work/38827200 ORCID: /0000-0001-7800-2688/work/66367238 ORCID: /0000-0002-6170-885X/work/110091936 85030627339 4b489f1d-8d71-41aa-82e7-0d595f459a21 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/307291 000395104100002 |
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