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“Reconstructions of the past distribution of Testudo graeca mitochondrial lineages in the Middle East and Transcaucasia support multiple refugia since the Last Glacial Maximum”: A response

AutorInnen: 
Ihlow, F., Fritz, U., Mikulíček, P., Rödder, D.
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2021
Vollständiger Titel: 
“Reconstructions of the past distribution of Testudo graeca mitochondrial lineages in the Middle East and Transcaucasia support multiple refugia since the Last Glacial Maximum”: A response to Turkozan et al. (2021)
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Publiziert in: 
Herpetological Journal
Publikationstyp: 
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI Name: 
10.33256/31.4.201203
Keywords: 
Glacial refugia, multivariate environmental similarity surface (MESS), range shifts, species distribution modelling, spur-thighed tortoise
Bibliographische Angaben: 
Ihlow, F., Fritz, U., Mikulíček, P., Rödder, D. (2021): “Reconstructions of the past distribution of Testudo graeca mitochondrial lineages in the Middle East and Transcaucasia support multiple refugia since the Last Glacial Maximum”: A response to Turkozan et al. (2021). - Herpetological Journal 31: 201-203; https://doi.org/10.33256/31.4.201203
Abstract: 

Species distribution models (SDMs) are frequently used to characterise current, past or future realised environmental niches. Two recent studies applied different approaches to infer range dynamics in eastern subspecies of the spur-thighed tortoise Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758. We discuss differences in the conclusions of the two papers and use multivariate environmental similarity surface (MESS) analyses to show that the results of the study by Turkozan et al. (2021), recently published in the Herpetological Journal, are compromised by extrapolation and therefore have to be interpreted with caution.

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