Accounting for the indirect area effect in stacked species distribution models to map species richness in a montane biodiversity hotspot

Pouteau R., Bayle E., Blanchard E., Birnbaum P., Cassan J.J., Hequet V., Ibanez T., Vandrot H.
2015

Aim Understanding how species richness is distributed is a critical prerequisite to implement efficient conservation strategies in biodiversity hotspots. Stacked species distribution models (S-SDMs) provide new opportunities to map species richness, but the accuracy of this method may decline with elevation. Here, we test whether variation in model accuracy arises from increasingly unpredictable ...

Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières