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Better species mapping can improve conservation efforts

Date:
April 18, 2018
Source:
Portland State University
Summary:
The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats to protect lack critical information to help them make effective decisions, according to a new study.
These are wildflowers pictured at Lower Middle Lake, North Cascades National Park. Portland State University professor Angela Strecker says understanding where species may live in the future given climate change impacts is an important consideration for conservation science.
Credit: Angela Strecker
The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats to protect lack critical information to help them make effective decisions, according to a new study.