Do we need land-cover data to model species distributions in Europe?
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It is widely accepted that distributions of plants and animals are broadly constrained by their physiological tolerances to climatic factors (Woodward, 1987, 1990). This generalization is held to be true for species at a variety of spatial scales (Whittaker et al., 2001), although there is a wide recognition that the importance of climate is best expressed at large spatial scales (Rahbek & Graves, 2001; Willis & Whittaker, 2002). Following this recognition, bioclimatic models are being used Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier cedex 5, France, Macroecology and Conservation Unit, University of Évora, Estrada dos Leões, Évora 7000-730, Portugal and Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, CNRS, Université J. Fournier, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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