Publication Date:
2012-10-16
Description:
Petitpierre et al. (Reports, 16 March 2012, p. 1344) conclude that niche shifts are rare for terrestrial plant invaders and that this justifies the use of correlative modeling to project species geographic ranges for biological invasions and climate change. We draw attention to the limitations of their conceptual assumptions and the importance of niche shifts excluded from their analyses.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Webber, Bruce L -- Le Maitre, David C -- Kriticos, Darren J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Oct 12;338(6104):193; author reply 193. doi: 10.1126/science.1225980.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Ecosystem Sciences and Climate Adaptation Flagship, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia. bruce.webber@csiro.au〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066061" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Angiosperms/*growth & development
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*Climate
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*Ecosystem
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*Introduced Species
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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