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Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 May 2011
McMahon Sean M, Harrison Sandy P, Armbruster W Scott, Bartlein Patrick J, Beale Colin M, Edwards Mary E, Kattge Jens, Midgley Guy, Morin Xavier, Prentice I Colin
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Understanding how species and ecosystems respond to climate change has become a major focus of ecology and conservation biology. Modelling approaches provide important tools for making future projections, but current models of the climate-biosphere interface remain overly simplistic, undermining the credibility of projections. We identify five ways in which substantial advances could be made in the next few...
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