- PNAS (2009 )
- Authors: Miguel B. Araújo, Wilfried Thuiller, Nigel G. Yoccoz
- Link to article: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/16/E45.full
Beale et al. (1) reported that species–climate associations estimated with envelope models were no better than expected by chance for 68% of the European birds studied. Beale et al. estimated species–climate associations with 4 variables, including soil water availability and ignored ≈11% of the available bird species records for Europe, i.e., all probable and confirmed records with <10 breeding pairs and all possible breeding records. (…)