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The Role of Climate and Other Factors in Driving Species Shifts in Elevational Distributions

Background

The shift of species distributions is directly correlated to climatic factors, such as temperature and precipitation regimes. However, the underlying mechanisms that shift species distribution are unknown. More importantly, current modeling practice without understanding of the mechanisms could lead to significant bias on prediction of species distribution.


We used extensive long-term forest inventory data from four mountainous areas in eastern China (39,553 individuals in 481 permanent inventory plots), to investigate species range shifts over the past 25 years (1989~2014). See images below.


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