Journal article
Assessing the impacts of climate change and land transformation on Banksia in the South West Australian Floristic Region
CJ Yates, A McNeill, J Elith, GF Midgley
Diversity and Distributions | Published : 2010
Abstract
Aim To determine the potential combined effects of climate change and land transformation on the modelled geographic ranges of Banksia. Location Mediterranean climate South West Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR). Methods We used the species distribution modelling software Maxent to relate current environmental conditions to occurrence data for 18 Banksia species, and subsequently made spatial predictions using two simple dispersal scenarios (zero and universal), for three climate-severity scenarios at 2070, taking the impacts of land transformation on species' ranges into account. The species were chosen to reflect the biogeography of Banksia in the SWAFR. Results Climate-severity scenario..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the Commonwealth Government of Australia Bilateral Climate Change Partnership Program for supporting DEC and SANBI in collaborative research on climate change and biodiversity in Western Australia and South Africa. We thank Paul Gioia (DEC) for help with data management. We are grateful to Linda Beaumont and Andres Roubicek at Macquarie University for providing us with the Matlab scripts for calculating bioclimatic variables. We thank Richard McKellar for comments on the manuscript. J.E. was supported by ARC grant DP0772671 and the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis.