Science Enabled by Specimen Data

Chardon, N. I., S. Pironon, M. L. Peterson, and D. F. Doak. 2019. Incorporating intraspecific variation into species distribution models improves distribution predictions, but cannot predict species traits for a wide‐spread plant species. Ecography 43: 60–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04630

The most common approach to predicting how species ranges and ecological functions will shift with climate change is to construct correlative species distribution models (SDMs). These models use a species’ climatic distribution to determine currently suitable areas for the species and project its po…