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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 190-203Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.014
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- ERA-Net BiodivERsA
- FCT [BIODIVERSA/0003/2011]
- Fonds de Recherches du Quebec - Nature et Technologies (FQRNT) programme
- Swedish Strategic Research Environment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC)
- [IF/00266/2013/CP1168/CT0001]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [BIODIVERSA/0003/2011, IF/00266/2013/CP1168/CT0001] Funding Source: FCT
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Information on the ecological traits of species might improve predictions of climate-driven range shifts. However, the usefulness of traits is usually assumed rather than quantified. Here, we present a framework to identify the most informative traits, based on four key range-shift processes: emigration of individuals or propagules away from the natal location; the distance a species can move; establishment of self-sustaining populations; and proliferation following establishment. We propose a framework that categorises traits according to their contribution to range-shift processes. We demonstrate how the framework enables the predictive value of traits to be evaluated empirically and how this categorisation can be used to better understand range-shift processes; we also illustrate how range-shift estimates can be improved.
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