Reopening the climate envelope reveals macroscale associations with climate in European birds -

Reopening the climate envelope reveals macroscale associations with climate in European birds

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.