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SUBMITTER: Scherrer D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6395803 | biostudies-other | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scherrer Daniel D Guisan Antoine A
Scientific reports 20190228 1
The questions of how much abiotic environment contributes to explain species distributions, and which abiotic factors are the most influential, are key when projecting species realized niches in space and time. Here, we show that answers to these questions can be obtained by using species' ecological indicator values (EIVs). By calculating community averages of plant EIVs (397 plant species and 3988 vegetation plots), we found that substituting mapped environmental predictors with site EIVs led ...[more]