In our view, the fundamental climate space delineates the climatic conditions that could be occupied by a species if climate were the only limiting factor, and the realized climate space is the range of climate conditions that are actually occupied.
The larger numbers of localities submitted to the training data better capture the realised climate space and avoid having (climatic) variable numbers approaching the number of sample locations which leads to over-fitting of the models [ 47].
Thus a complete rendition of the factors constraining occupied climate space would need to include an additional set representing limiting non-climatic abiotic conditions.
Ecological variables covered four broad domains that affect animals: climate, space, shelter and food availability.
Comparison of climate space and phylogeny of Marmota (Mammalia: Rodentia) indicates a connection between evolutionary history and climate preference.
What those of us in the climate space should know is that this is not a climate science issue.
However, the results of predictive models indicate that changes in suitable climate space for individual species will be seen at regional and national scales over the coming decades.
These include habitat loss and fragmentation, which may prevent species from migrating between isolated habitat patches in order to track their suitable climate space.
Bioclimatic models are widely used to correlate species landscape distributions with macroclimate, projecting and then comparing suitable climate space at a baseline and for future climate change scenarios.
Considering climate space is straightforward, and it can be applied using a variety of relevant climate parameters across differing levels of land protection status.
Obviously, energy and climate, space, innovation for economic prosperity these are all important issues, and we will be standing up NSTC panels to address them.
