Authors
Michael R Kearney, Alireza Shamakhy, Reid Tingley, David J Karoly, Ary A Hoffmann, Peter R Briggs, Warren P Porter
Publication date
2014/3
Journal
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
5
Issue
3
Pages
273-286
Description
  1. The microclimate experienced by organisms is determined by local weather conditions. Yet the environmental data available for predicting the effect of climate on the distribution and abundance of organisms are typically in the form of long‐term average monthly climate measured at standardized heights above the ground.
  2. Here, we demonstrate how hourly microclimates can be modelled mechanistically over decades at the continental scale with biologically suitable accuracy.
  3. We extend the microclimate model of the software package niche mapper to capture spatial and temporal variation in soil thermal properties and integrate it with gridded soil and weather data for Australia at 0·05° resolution.
  4. When tested against historical observations of soil temperature, the microclimate model predicted 85% of the variation in hourly soil temperature across 10 years from the surface to 1 m deep with an accuracy of 2–3·3 …
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Scholar articles
MR Kearney, A Shamakhy, R Tingley, DJ Karoly… - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2014