Thursday 11 August 2016

Predicting the future distribution of Bd under climate change

Data from bd-maps.net was used to predict the global future distribution of Bd. The paper was published in PLoS ONE and is freely available. A key model prediction is "a broad expansion of areas environmentally suitable for establishment of Bd on amphibian hosts in the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere."



The figure shows the predicted change in the distribution of (figure taken from the paper).

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