Niche models tell half the story: spatial context and life-history traits influence species responses to global change

Rebecca M Swab; Helen M Regan; David A Keith; Tracey J Regan; Mark KJ Ooi

Journal article

Niche models tell half the story: spatial context and life-history traits influence species responses to global change

Rebecca M Swab, Helen M Regan, David A Keith, Tracey J Regan, Mark KJ Ooi

Journal of Biogeography | WILEY | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02690.x

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Tracey Regan Author Biosciences

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Awarded by National Science Foundation graduate student research fellowship (NSF GRFP)

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Awarded by Linkage grants from the Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tony Auld, Andrew Denham and Berin Mackenzie for assistance with fieldwork and advice about species information. Many thanks to Hans Henrik Bruun for comments and critiques during the modelling process, and to Katherine Marske for assistance with publication preparation. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation East Asia Pacific Summer Institute grant (NSF EAPSI) and the Australian Academy of Science, a National Science Foundation graduate student research fellowship (NSF GRFP) under grant no. DGE0813967, and supplemental support from the Nordic Research Opportunity (NSF NRO) through the GRFP and the Danish National Research Foundation, all awarded to R. M. S. Additional support was provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF-DEB-0824708) awarded to H. M. R. and Linkage grants (LP0989537 and LP110100527) from the Australian Research Council awarded to D. A. K. and M.K.J.O.