Here be dragons: a tool for quantifying novelty due to covariate range and correlation change when projecting species distribution models

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Funding Acknowledgements

M.B.M. was supported by the University of Melbourne John McKenzie Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. B. L. W. acknowledges support from the CSIRO Climate Adaptation and Biosecurity Flagships. We thank Brendan Wintle, Bob O'Hara, Carsten Dormann and two anonymous referees for valuable comments that improved the manuscript. We thank Ehsan Mahmoudi and Arash Zarghamnejad for programming assistance. We thank the co-authors of Webber et al. (2011) for sharing distribution data for Acacia cyclops, which was quality controlled as part of research funded by the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (through the Bilateral Climate Change Partnership Program).