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High-Resolution Bioclimatic Surfaces for Southern Peru: An Approach to Climate Reality for Biological Conservation

Version 1 : Received: 15 February 2023 / Approved: 20 February 2023 / Online: 20 February 2023 (11:54:06 CET)

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Pauca-Tanco, G.A.; Arias-Enríquez, J.F.; Quispe-Turpo, J.P. High-Resolution Bioclimatic Surfaces for Southern Peru: An Approach to Climate Reality for Biological Conservation. Climate 2023, 11, 96. Pauca-Tanco, G.A.; Arias-Enríquez, J.F.; Quispe-Turpo, J.P. High-Resolution Bioclimatic Surfaces for Southern Peru: An Approach to Climate Reality for Biological Conservation. Climate 2023, 11, 96.

Abstract

Ecological niche models have become exceptionally important, since their results allow to un-derstand many aspects related to the biology of the species being studied, even understanding its evolutionary relationships or their response to past or future projections. In this research, models were prepared to create climatic surfaces so as to produce bioclimatic layers based on the mete-orological data of the south of Peru. Temperature and precipitation data from 119 stations were obtained and homogenized. Then, using geographic and orographic covariates, models were prepared so as to obtain climatic surfaces of maximum and minimum temperature, and precipi-tation. The produced layers were evaluated through root-mean-square deviation (RMSD), mean absolute deviation of error (MAD) and goodness of fit (R2), and they were compared to other models for the area. Finally, the 19 bioclimatic surfaces were created. The results show general patterns for temperature and precipitation, some of them being particular. The climatic layers produced showed acceptable values for RMSD, MAD and R2. Comparison with other models shows statistically significant differences. Both the climatic and the produced bioclimatic surfaces were entered into a database for free access. Finally, comments are made on the importance and application of the bioclimatic layers produced here.

Keywords

interpolation; SDM; ENM; precipitation; climatic surfaces

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

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