Nice weather for frogs – using environmental data to model phylogenetic turnover
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1.1 The biodiversity mapping problem Mapping the distribution of elements of biodiversity is essential to any planned approach for allocating resources to conservation, as well as to understand macro scale evolutionary processes. For well studied areas, ‘point’ data from observed locations of each species may provide sufficient information. For well studied species, a range of modelling techniques are available to extrapolate from known locations, using climate and other environmental data to predict areas of suitable habitat for the species. But these approaches have limitations for broad scale applications such as conservation planning, where we may need to consider all species and areas, including those for which data are sparse.
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