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DOI | 10.1111/ecog.03655 |
Spatial scale, topography and thermoregulatory behaviour interact when modelling species' thermal niches | |
Barton, Madeleine G.1; Clusella-Trullas, Susana2; Terblanche, John S.1 | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0906-7590 |
EISSN | 1600-0587 |
卷号 | 42期号:2页码:376-389 |
英文摘要 | The spatial scale at which climate and species' occupancy data are gathered, and the resolution at which ecological models are run, can strongly influence predictions of species performance and distributions. Running model simulations at coarse rather than fine spatial resolutions, for example, can determine if a model accurately predicts the distribution of a species. The impacts of spatial scale on a model's accuracy are particularly pronounced across mountainous terrain. Understanding how these discrepancies arise requires a modelling approach in which the underlying processes that determine a species' distribution are explicitly described. Here we use a process-based model to explore how spatial resolution, topography and behaviour alter predictions of a species thermal niche, which in turn constrains its survival and geographic distribution. The model incorporates biophysical equations to predict the operative temperature (T-e), thermal-dependent performance and survival of a typical insect, with a complex life-cycle, in its microclimate. We run this model with geographic data from a mountainous terrain in South Africa using climate data at three spatial resolutions. We also explore how behavioural thermoregulation affects predictions of a species performance and survival by allowing the animal to select the optimum thermal location within each coarse-grid cell. At the regional level, coarse-resolution models predicted lower T-e at low elevations and higher T-e at high elevations than models run at fine-resolutions. These differences were more prominent on steep, north-facing slopes. The discrepancies in T-e in turn affected estimates of the species thermal niche. The modelling framework revealed how spatial resolution and topography influence predictions of species distribution models, including the potential impacts of climate change. These systematic biases must be accounted for when interpreting the outputs of future modelling studies, particularly when species distributions are predicted to shift from uniform to topographically heterogeneous landscapes. |
WOS研究方向 | Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源期刊 | ECOGRAPHY |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/92958 |
作者单位 | 1.Stellenbosch Univ, Dept Conservat Ecol & Entomol, Ctr Invas Biol, Stellenbosch, South Africa; 2.Stellenbosch Univ, Dept Bot & Zool, Ctr Invas Biol, Stellenbosch, South Africa |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Barton, Madeleine G.,Clusella-Trullas, Susana,Terblanche, John S.. Spatial scale, topography and thermoregulatory behaviour interact when modelling species' thermal niches[J],2019,42(2):376-389. |
APA | Barton, Madeleine G.,Clusella-Trullas, Susana,&Terblanche, John S..(2019).Spatial scale, topography and thermoregulatory behaviour interact when modelling species' thermal niches.ECOGRAPHY,42(2),376-389. |
MLA | Barton, Madeleine G.,et al."Spatial scale, topography and thermoregulatory behaviour interact when modelling species' thermal niches".ECOGRAPHY 42.2(2019):376-389. |
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