Climate change vulnerability assessments have to-date focused primarily on exposure and sensitivity, with adaptive capacity relatively overlooked. In a new paper, an army of mammalogists (and Adam) completed an assessment of the adaptive capacity of several iconic mammals of western North America. Of note, the American pika (Ochotona princeps) has reduced adaptive capacity at the …
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Using imprecisely located presences in SDMs
We’ve developed a new, simple, common-sensical method for using imprecisely georeferenced occurrence data in species distribution modeling and other biogeographic analyses! Collectively, imprecise records reflect thousands of years of person-work in collection, curation, and digitization, and yet they are routinely discarded by biogeographers before analysis because of the fear that their error will propagate through …
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