Microclimate instead of macroclimate: a key to more realistic species distribution modelling
| Name: | Microclimate instead of macroclimate: a key to more realistic species distribution modelling |
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| Researchers: |
Wild Jan (researcher) Moudrý Vítězslav (member in research team) Prošek Jiří (member in research team) Klinerová Tereza (member in research team) Man Matěj (member in research team) Macek Martin (member in research team) Kopecký Martin (member in research team) Hederová Lucia (member in research team) |
| Provider: | Grantový Agentura České republiky |
| Number: | 20-28119S |
| Realization from: | 2020 |
| Summary: | Species distribution modelling (SDM) is a well-established approach addressing broad spectra of ecological questions including effects of climate change. Climatic grids derived from standard meteorological measurement are usually used as a key predictor in SDM. However such measurements do not represent the condition experienced by organisms in their habitat. Microclimatic measurements provide more ecologically relevant description of condition in which organisms live and their changes in space and time. However they are still hardly accessible especially at larger spatial scales and in the form of spatially continuous microclimatic grids needed for SDM. Therefore, in this project we will use our network of microclimatic station covering the whole country (Czechia) and broad range of environmental conditions and forest vegetation types to: i) develop spatially continuous grids of ecologically relevant microclimatic conditions from in-situ measurements and ii) evaluate the performance of these microclimatic grids in SDM in comparison to traditional macroclimatic grids. |