Modeling alpine plant distributions at the landscape scale: Do biotic interactions matter?

Eric Meineri, Olav Skarpaas and Vigdis Vandvik

Ecological Modelling, 2012, vol. 231, issue C, 1-10

Abstract: Species Distribution Models (SDMs) generally ignore biotic processes. However, it has been shown that biotic interactions from lowland flora contribute to shape the “rear edge” of alpine plant distributions. In this study, we explored the potential effect of accounting for interactions from dominant lowland congeners representative for the lowland flora for predicting landscape scale distribution (1km grain) of two alpine plant species, Viola biflora and Veronica alpina.

Keywords: Species distribution models; Biotic interactions; Alpine; Lowland; Viola; Veronica (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.01.021

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