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dc.contributor.authorPiirainen, Sirke
dc.contributor.authorLehikoinen, Aleksi
dc.contributor.authorHusby, Magne
dc.contributor.authorKålås, John Atle
dc.contributor.authorLindström, Åke
dc.contributor.authorOvaskainen, Otso Tapio
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-19T11:49:54Z
dc.date.available2024-03-19T11:49:54Z
dc.date.created2023-03-27T10:47:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationDiversity and Distributions: A Journal of Conservation Biogeography. 2023, 29 (5), 654-665.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1366-9516
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3123101
dc.description.abstractAim: Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to make predictions on how species distributions may change as a response to climatic change. To assess the reli-ability of those predictions, they need to be critically validated with respect to what they are used for. While ecologists are typically interested in how and where distribu-tions will change, we argue that SDMs have seldom been evaluated in terms of their capacity to predict such change. Instead, typical retrospective validation methods es-timate model's ability to predict to only one static time in future. Here, we apply two validation methods, one that predicts and evaluates a static pattern, while the other measures change and compare their estimates of predictive performance. Location: Fennoscandia. Methods: We applied a joint SDM to model the distributions of 120 bird species in four model validation settings. We trained models with a dataset from 1975 to 1999 and predicted species' future occurrence and abundance in two ways: for one static time period (2013–2016, ‘static validation’) and for a change between two time pe-riods (difference between 1996–1999 and 2013–2016, ‘change validation’). We then measured predictive performance using correlation between predicted and observed values. We also related predictive performance to species traits. Results: Even though static validation method evaluated predictive performance as good, change method indicated very poor performance. Predictive performance was not strongly related to any trait.Main Conclusions: Static validation method might overestimate predictive perfor-mance by not revealing the model's inability to predict change events. If species' dis-tributions remain mostly stable, then even an unfit model can predict the near future well due to temporal autocorrelation. We urge caution when working with forecasts of changes in spatial patterns of species occupancy or abundance, even for SDMs that are based on time series datasets unless they are critically validated for forecasting such change. birds, climate change, Fennoscandia, forecasting, land use, model validation, prediction, species distribution modelling, species traits, temporal transferabilityen_US
dc.description.abstractSpecies distributions models may predict accurately future distributions but poorly how distributions change: A critical perspective on model validationen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleSpecies distributions models may predict accurately future distributions but poorly how distributions change: A critical perspective on model validationen_US
dc.title.alternativeSpecies distributions models may predict accurately future distributions but poorly how distributions change: A critical perspective on model validationen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Zoology and botany: 480en_US
dc.source.pagenumber654-665en_US
dc.source.volume29en_US
dc.source.journalDiversity and Distributions: A Journal of Conservation Biogeographyen_US
dc.source.issue5en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ddi.13687
dc.identifier.cristin2137093
dc.relation.projectAndre: Jane ja Aatos Erkon Säätiöen_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: ERC-synergy project LIFen_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: BiodivScen ERA-Net-COFUND programmeen_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: Koneen Säätiö: 201903886en_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: National Science Foundation: CLO, ICER- 1927646en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 223257en_US
dc.relation.projectEC/H2020/856506;en_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: Suomen Kulttuurirahastoen_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 295767en_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas: 2018-02441en_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: Academy of Finland: 326338en_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: Academy of Finland: 275606en_US
dc.relation.projectAndre: Academy of Finland: 309581en_US
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